Intro to International Relations (WEEK - 10): Quiz-5, Readings, Newspaper articles, and Presentations

Dear all,

For the Week 10, you should read the following chapters before you come to the class

15 McDonaldization.

57 An Introduction to McDonaldization (George Ritzer).

58 McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption (Malcolm Waters).

59 The McDonald’s Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity (Bryan S. Turner).

60 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia (James L. Watson).

61 Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization (Alan Bryman).

62 Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local – McDonald's in Israel (Uri Ram).

DOCUMENTARY:
Iraq For Sale The War Profiteers 2006 - Documentary Film Official

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYa_3oh1-s4

OR Discovery Channel China Time of Xi Episode 1: People’s Republic  http://chinaandthemiddleeast.blogspot.com/2017/10/china-time-of-xi-episode-1-peoples.html

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: 

SUY BUNLAY

15 McDonaldization.

57 An Introduction to McDonaldization (George Ritzer).

58 McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption (Malcolm Waters).

ABDURRAHIM SAGIR

59 The McDonald’s Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity (Bryan S. Turner).

60 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia (James L. Watson).

SOEUNG SEYHAK

61 Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization (Alan Bryman).

62 Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local – McDonald's in Israel (Uri Ram).

REZA PIRAMOUN SHARIFABAD

63 World Culture: Origins and Consequences Frank J. Lechner and John Boli

64 Norms, Culture, and W orld Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism Martha Finnemore

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 TRUMP VISIT TO CHINA. Other subjects will not be accepted. PLEASE VERY BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE YOUR ARTICLE IN THE CLASS!    

QUIZ-5: You will take your second quiz on Wednesday and the quiz covers the following chapters:

12 McWorld and Jihad.

42 Jihad vs McWorld (Benjamin R. Barber)

43 Paris Is Burning: Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber (Fareed Zakaria).

44 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism (Bryan S. Turner). 45 On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism (Benjamin R. Barber).

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

Best to all,

Tugrul