ANTH 310 - Globalization and Development:Anthropological Perspectives

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William Paterson University of New Jersey

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The last three decades have seen growing tensions between two powerful constructs that have framed knowledge of the unevenness of our world: development and globalization, the meanings of which are still debated. This course will focus on four major themes that recur in the debates surrounding globalization and development: poverty and inequality, individual states and transnational institutions, social and cultural movements on globalization's impacts, global rights regime, and global health and environment. The broad approach taken in this course will be "anthropological politicaleconomy,"which means that attention will be paid to the ways in which three axes of social life-the culturalideological (meaning producing actions), the economic (commodity production and exchange), and the political (power struggles) come together to produce globalization and development as social phenomena. The course will have a large focus on the continent of Asia, but will also draw upon other regions of the world, including Euro- America, that shape the intensity, direction, and form of globalization. Prerequisite: ANTH 130 or HIST 102 or POL 110 or SOC 101 or SOC 102

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.wpunj.edu

Phone Number:

(973) 720-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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