(WEEK 4) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Readings and Newspaper Articles - Tuesday and Wednesday

Dear all,
 
First of all, we will have two hours class on Wednesday to cover the last week readings. I will let you know time and place, but probably Wednesday afternoon 2 PM. Please let me know your availability.   

For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles, they are also attached.

Nation-State, Nationalism, Citizenship and Immigration
Nationalism and Ethnicity By Craig Calhoun
Ethnicity versus Nationalism By Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Political Economy of the USA by Tugrul Keskin

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of ethnicity and race relations in the US.

Please bring the last three weeks’ articles to present in the class. Unfortunately, we did not have chance to talk about these articles. You do not need to write a summary of the article, but you should summarize the article verbally in the class and submit it to me (only first page and do not forget to write your full name)  

Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 8 newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/, under the external links section. Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the Economist.

Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Sociology of Work
Documentary:
Industrialization and Economic Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1CiKVQ124 
Industrial Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMV3E7wb24c

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor