Intro to International Relations (WEEK - 9): Quiz-4, Readings, Newspaper articles, and Presentations

Dear all,

For the Week 9, you should read the following chapters before you come to the class

14 Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization.

51 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).

52 The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization (Marwan M. Kraidy).

53 Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora, Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture (Keith Nurse).

54 Mapping the “Glocal” Village: The Political Limits of “Glocalization” (William H. Thornton).

55 Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing (George Ritzer).

56 Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical Reflections on Ritzer’s Globalization Analysis (Douglas Kellner).

DOCUMENTARY:
The Power Of Nightmares: Part 2 The Phantom Victory (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QTaJ_ZVn-4

The Power Of Nightmares: Part 3 The Shadows In The Cave (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1BRE-DBsA

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: 

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

LOEUN CHHANY

14 Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization.

51 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).

52 The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization (Marwan M. Kraidy).

MOHAMMED SAIF

53 Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora, Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture (Keith Nurse).

54 Mapping the “Glocal” Village: The Political Limits of “Glocalization” (William H. Thornton).

AHMED TAAJIR

55 Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing (George Ritzer).

56 Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical Reflections on Ritzer’s Globalization Analysis (Douglas Kellner).

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PRESENTATION: Please bring RECENT newspaper articles. Articles SHOULD BE related with POLITICAL ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA. Other subjects will not be accepted. PLEASE VERY BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE YOUR ARTICLE IN THE CLASS!    

QUIZ-4: You will take your second quiz on Wednesday and the quiz covers the following chapters:

9 Empire.

30 Empire (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri).

31 The Global Coliseum: On Empire (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri interviewed by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman).

32 Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations (Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey).

33 Africa: the Black Hole at the Middle of Empire? (David Moore).

34 The New World Order (They Mean It) (Stanley Aronowitz).

35 Adventures of the Multitude: Response of the Authors (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri).

10 Network Society and Informationalism.

36 Toward a Sociology of the Network Society (Manuel Castells).

37 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells (Peter Marcuse).

11 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism.

38 The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited (Ulrich Beck).

39 Risk, Globalisation and the State: A Critical Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis (Darryl S. L. Jarvis).

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

41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (Craig Calhoun).

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

Best to all,

Tugrul