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3.00 Credits
Globalization and Anticapitalism in Historical Perspective Spring 2009. Three credits. Robin Blackburn This course presents an account of the origins and development of globalization, of the social and political traditions that have contested capitalism, and of the new forms of collectivism in the modern world. The legacy and debates of 19th- and 20th-century socialism, liberalism, and anarchism are reconsidered in the light of the experience of the 20th century. The ideas of Marx and Proudhon, Engels and Bakunin, Kautsky and Lenin, Bauer and Bernstein, Trotsky and Luxemburg, the Fabians and the syndicalists, Mao and Fidel Castro, Keynes and Beveridge, Polanyi and Bookchin, and Fanon and C.L.R. James are scrutinized and shown to have continued bearing on the new forms of capitalism and collectivism in the 21st century. The calculation debate of the thirties and forties, which pitted Mises and Hayek against Oskar Lange and Maurice Dobb, are reexamined. The legacy of struggles for universal social security in the advanced countries are presented for the light it can shed on inequality and insecurity in the modern world. The question is posed as to how today's new social movements and anticapitalism measure up to new forms of corporate and financial power. The role of money managers and institutional funds in globalization is explored. The potential of consumers' campaigns, cultural contestation, social trade unionism, environmentalism, and pension fund activism are assessed in terms of their capacity to strengthen democracy and mount an effective challenge to capitalist power. Cross-listed as GSOC 5032.
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3.00 Credits
Poetry and Protest: Local Cultural Identities in a Global World Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Eiko Ikegami Arts, poetry, and cultural practices often express sentiments of protest. The term poetry is used as a metaphor for various forms of aesthetic practices manifested in such forms as fiction, stories, poetry, performing arts, music, and fashion. Poetry can be a form of expressing protest in a variety of ways; direct expressions of political contention are only one way of connecting the dimensions of aesthetics and politics. Consequently, this seminar explores the dynamic relationships between poetry and politics from a variety of sociological viewpoints. Drawing from cases in various areas such as East India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe, this course explores the dynamics of forming local cultural identities expressed in the medium of popular cultural practices and aesthetics against the contexts of global and regional cultural intersections. The focus of our exploration lies in the dynamic cultural interactions between local and global in the formation of identities.
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Markets in History: Interdisciplinary Approaches Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Julia Ott In this course, students develop a systematic method for exploring the historical relationships between capitalism, politics, and culture in the United States and assess what recent investigations of historical markets have contributed to social inquiry. Topics include the social construction of value and credit, the negotiation of risk and failure, exploitation and market resistance, systems of production and consumption and their relation to political and social identities, the institutional logic of corporations, the interactions between economic theory, financial logic, and political ideology, and the ability of markets to traverse national borders and transcend national histories. Readings include Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Michel Abolafia, Walter Johnson, William Roy, Sidney Mintz, Jefferson Cowie, Michael Perelman, Roland Marchand, Marc Granovetter, and Lizbeth Cohen. Cross-listed as LHIS 4570. 62
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Religion, Politics, and Society Spring 2009. Three credits. Neguin Yavari The course begins with a theoretical study of social and economic changes occasioned by emerging global networks and the advent of modernity, and their influences on the shaping of Islamic political culture by the 19th century. A new religious landscape had already taken shape. Iran had become Shi'i, and religious and ethnic identities were conflated with political and national identities. Against this backdrop, Western encroachment, the genesis of resistance to the colonial order, and the primacy of sovereign states, began to subsume Islamic politics. The end of this period was marked by the domination of consciously constructed governance by the early 1900s, and an increasingly prominent role for merchants and professional classes in the political arena. The paradigm of "decline" has often been used to explain why modern nation states as inEurope did not appear in similar forms in the Islamic world (defined here as nations under Muslim rule). Rather than focusing on decline, this course pays close attention to the way Islamic societies changed in the temporal context of modernity, and how those transformations influenced their responses to Western encroachment, secularism, and nationalism. Authors include Amanat, Daniel, Mitchell, Mottahedeh, Quataert, and Schulze. Cross-listed as LHIS 4503.
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3.00 Credits
Gender, Politics, and History Spring 2009. Three credits. Elaine Abelson This course explores aspects of women's history and the history of gender in the United States over the past two centuries. The course stresses the themes of difference among women and between women and men as a means of examining the social construction of gender and the logic of feminist analysis and activity. Students learn the major themes in gender history, develop critical and analytical skills, and appreciate current and on-going theoretical (and controversial) debates. Students analyze key conceptual and methodological frameworks as gender, class, sexuality, power, and race. Readings use primary and secondary material. Students complete two papers and participate in student-led discussions. Cross-listed as LHIS 4500.
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3.00 Credits
Women, Gender and the Production of Knowledge Fall 2008. Three credits. Gina Walker This course examines the ambitions and achievements of a cohort of women intellectuals who, prominent in their own time but now largely forgotten, produced new knowledge that contributed to modern understanding. We concentrate on British women and their complex cultural inheritance, with reference to female scholars in adjacent cultures. Our chronological reach, 1702-1870, begins with the reign of Queen Anne and ends in the middle of Victoria's rule when women were first admitted to British universities and Parliament passed the groundbreaking Married Women' s Property Acts (1870 and 1882). We consider the relation between gender and genre in light of emerging academic discourses, the explosion of science, and the expansion of print culture. We look at the pioneering efforts of women in the republic of letters: Anna Jameson, the first English female art critic; Mary Wollstonecraft, self-taught editor of the radical Annual Review; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, professional life-writer of Vitoria Colonna, Manon Roland, and Germaine de Stael in Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal and French Lives; and women's invention of Shakespeare studies to forge new perspectives on national culture. We study scientific advances and popularizations by Priscilla Wakefield in botany, Jane Marcet in chemistry, and Ada Byron Lovelace in early computer technology; and polymaths Harriet Martineau and Mary Sommerville. We investigate new perspectives on the interactions of male thinkers with their female contemporaries, including the collaborative relationships of Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes; Caroline Herschel and her brother William; and Priscilla Wakefield and Carl Linnaeus. We contemplate the particular struggles of Catherine Macaulay, Mary Hays, Lucy Aikin, and Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland to be recognized as history writers. We investigate women's proposals for female education in light of their own experiences as autodidacts and amid pervasive social anxiety about learned women. Cross-listed with Liberal Studies, GLIB 5527.
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3.00 Credits
Historiography and Historical Practice Fall 2008. Three credits. Oz Frankel This course focuses on U.S. history to examine current permutations of historiographical interests, practices, and methodologies. Topics include identity politics, the culture wars, major trends and controversies in American historiography, the multicultural moment in historical studies, the emergence of race and gender as cardinal categories of historical analysis, the preoccupation with popular culture, the impact of memory studies on historical thinking, the recurrent agonizing over American exceptionalism, and recent attempts to globalize American history. Also examined are the intersection of analytical strategies borrowed from the social sciences and literary studies with methods and epistemologies of historicization that originated from the historical profession. This course should be taken during a student's first year in the Historical Studies program. Cross-listed as GPOL 6133.
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3.00 Credits
Chapters in the History of the Book Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Oz Frankel This seminar takes as its starting point the current hype over the "new media" and collateral prophecies regarding the imminent death of the book, and examines the essential features of, and key episodes in, the history and sociology of the book, print, and reading in modern Europe and the United States. Since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, books and print culture have been central to the shaping of Western culture and society. Nevertheless, only recently have scholars begun to explore critically and historically this crucial facet of modern life. The seminar follows the role print and books had in the emergence of the modern marketplace and public sphere, and alternatively, their employment as tools of transformation during periods of social and political strife (e.g., the French Revolution). The material aspect of the production of books, their design as artifacts, and their dissemination are also investigated. Case studies from both sides of the Atlantic include the business of street pamphleteers in 18th-century Paris, the reading of handbills and banknotes in 19th-century New York City, and the 20th-century Book-of-the- Month Club. Other themes are the rise of authorship as a profession, the relationship between books and their readers, publishing and state authority, and the effects of Western-based print culture on other lands. Finally, we try to assess the durability and vulnerability of books, print, and information in the virtual spaces of the new technologies of communication.
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3.00 Credits
Politics of the Image in the Muslim World Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Faisal Devji Images lead lives and suffer deaths: They are produced, circulated, and destroyed not only by people but also together with them. Images represent people to themselves as well as to others, and their existence is entwined with the lives of those who make, use, and abandon them. The world of images is therefore a political world with its own modes of friendship and enmity, survival and destruction, even escape. In this course, we look at the lives and deaths of images in the Muslim world, a place whose politics is generally confined to books, ideas, and a limited repertoire of actions. And yet the production, proliferation, and profanation of images in this world is far more extensive than any book, idea, or political act. Does this world of images possess its own politics Does it allow us to look at politics differently Does the circulation of images define the limits of the Muslim world or does it breach those limits We explore these and other questions by discussing themes like idolatry and iconoclasm, representation and modernity, dictatorial and revolutionary aesthetics, the image as commodity, and the spectacle of violence in several parts of the Muslim world.
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3.00 Credits
The Idea of the Left Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Eli Zaretsky The idea of a left-a general idea, as distinct from that of any particular left-emerged at the time of the French Revolution; took shape in the writings of the utopian socialists, anarchists, and liberal democrats; and reached its classical formulation in the work of Karl Marx. In the early 20th century, the idea was distinguished from the idea of revolution. At the same time, liberalism and the left became indispensable to one another: liberal or social democrat regimes needed a left to give them steel, the left needed liberalism in order to breathe. In the 1960s, the idea was redefined once again or, from another point of view, forgotten. In this course, we concentrate on the 19th-century origins of the idea, but always bearing this long arc in mind. Readings include texts by Owen, Fourier, Proudhon, and, especially, Marx. Cross-listed as LHIS 4505, GLIB 5504, GPOL 6323, GSOC 6120.
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