Intro to International Relations (WEEK - 8, NOV. 1): Quiz-3, Readings, Newspaper articles, and Presentations

Dear all,

For the Week 8, you should read the following chapters before you come to the class

Part II Culture.

46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).

13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization.

47 The World in Creolisation (Ulf Hannerz).

48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology (Ulf Hannerz).

49 Globalization as Hybridization (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).

50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity (Roland Robertson).

DOCUMENTARY:
The trap of Materialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtwXryPNciM

The Cult of Materialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIBxXLMCL0

The Shock Doctrine [2009] Documentary by Naomi Klein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B5qt6gsxY

This week, we will have two presentations on Wednesday. YOU SHOULD PREPARE POWER POINTS and EMAIL IT TO ME A DAY BEFORE THE CLASS.
This week, two students will have presentations: 

FACUNDO OLMEDO

40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda (Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider).

41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (Craig Calhoun).

OLGA GORYUNOVA

Part II Culture.

46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).

13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization.

47 The World in Creolisation (Ulf Hannerz).

VOEURN VINICHHAI 

48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology (Ulf Hannerz).

49 Globalization as Hybridization (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).

50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity (Roland Robertson).

JESSICA GARCIA

The Hidden Ruler: Wang Huning and the Making of Contemporary China

Haig Patapan and Yi Wang - JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA, 2017

When a Sleeping Giant Wakes – A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of China’s Expanding Ties in the Middle East. Tugrul Keskin and Christian N. Braun - sociology of islam 4 (2016) 1-26

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PRESENTATION: Please bring RECENT newspaper articles. Articles SHOULD BE related with SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN CHINA. Other subjects will not be accepted. PLEASE VERY BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE YOUR ARTICLE IN THE CLASS!    

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.  

Best to all,

Tugrul