Globalization and Transnationalism
2014 Spring
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Instructor: Shiaw-Chian Fong
Meeting: Wed. 0910-1200, Dayong Building (大勇樓) Room 406
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Office: Department of Journalism Room 210 & IMICS Office
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Course Outline:
This seminar focuses on the role of globalization and, specifically, of
transnationalism, defined as the variety of cultural inter-connections and
trans-border movements and networks which have intensified under conditions
of late capitalism, in the global society. We shall proceed from the discussion of
media and urban globalization, through the topic of diaspora, to the final study
of transnationalism. The purpose of this class, in short, is to sensitize you to the
intricate and intertwining relationships between the overall process of the
on-going globalization and its manifestation in both the action and the
imagination of people’s cross-border migration, and thus to help you with the
relevant literature in which you may pinpoint your interest and develop it into
your MA or Ph. D. thesis.
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Requirements: Rotated oral presentation with one-page outline on weekly
basis is a must (50%). A one-page proposal for your term paper is due in the
mid-term exam week (10%). And a term paper of maximum 20 double-spaced
pages, preferably in the form of a thesis proposal, is due before June 30, 2014
(the deadline is subject to change in accord with school regulation, 40%).
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Schedule: (The pieces with * signal that they are listed for reference only.)
A. Globalization:
1. 02/19/2014 Introduction
2. 02/26
S. Sassen 2007 A Sociology of Globalization. New York: W. W. Norton. Chs. 1-2
C. Sparks 2007 Globalization, Development and the Mass Media. London:
Sage. Chs. 7-8
3. 03/05
M. Castells 2000 The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford, UK. Chs. 1, 5
4. 03/12
D. Harvey 1989 The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of
Cultural Change. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. P. vii—The Argument & pp.3-118.
*David Harvey on Gentrification in Baltimore and Barcelona, interview by AK
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Press 05/12/2010, http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.
org/david-harvey-on-gentrification-in-baltimore-and-barcelona.
5. 03/19
A. Appaduari 1996 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
Minneapolis, Minn.: U. of Minnesota. Pp. 27-65
B. Diaspora:
1. 03/26 Global and local:
M. S. Laguerre 2007 “Diasporic Globalization: Reframing the Local/Global
Question.” Ray Hutchison, Jerome Krase eds., Ethnic Landscape in an Urban
World . Research in Urban Sociology, 8: 15-40. Oxford, UK: JAI Press.
C. Kaplan 2002 “Transporting the Subject: Technologies of mobility and
Location in an Era of Globalization.” Publication of the Modern Language
Association of America [PMLA], 117(1): 32-42. [E-Journal]
R. Robertson 1995 “Glocalization: Time-Space and HomogeneityHeterogeniety,” Mike Featherstone et. al eds., Global Modernities. London:
Sage, pp. 25-44.
*----. 1997 “Comments on the ‘Global Triad’ and ‘Glocalization’,”
Globalization and Indigenous Culture, Nobutaka Inoue ed. Tokyo: Institute for
Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
*I. Banerjee 1998 “Globalization and Localization—Dynamic Processes of
Cultural Change,” Asia Pacific Media Educator 5: 119-129.
2. 04/02 Sociological approach to diaspora
Cohen, R. 2008 Global Diasporas: An Introduction 2nd ed. New York:
Routledge. Pp.15-19 & Chs. 5, 8-9
M. SÖKEFELD 2006 “Mobilizing in Transnational Space: A Social Movement
Approach to the Formation of Diaspora,” Global Networks 6, 3 (2006):
265–284.
3. 04/09 Watch the film: Money and Honey [95 min. 麪包情人，or Pinoy
Sunday 台北星期天]
4. 04/16 Mid-term exam
5. 04/23 Cultural studies on diaspora 1:
S. Hall 1996 “Who Needs ‘Identity’?” Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay eds.,
Questions of Cultural Identity. London: Sage. Pp. 1-17.
----. 1996 “Ethnicity: Identity and Difference,” Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor
Suny eds., Becoming National: A Reader. NY: Oxford University Press. Pp.
339-351.
----. 1994 “Cultural Identity and Diaspora,” Patrick Williams and Laura
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Chrisman eds., Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. NY: Columbia
University Press. Pp. 392-403.
6. 04/30 Cultural studies on diaspora 2:
A. Brah 1996 Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identity. London:
Routledge. Ch. 8
J. Clifford 1997 Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Ch. 10
P. Gilroy 2003 “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity,” Jana
Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur eds., Theorizing Diaspora. Malden, Ma:
Blackwell. Pp. 49-80.
C. Transnationalism:
1. 05/07 Introducation:
P. Kivisto and T. Faist 2010 Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of
Contemporary Immigration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. Chs. 4-6.
*S. Vertovec 2009 Transnationalism. London: Routledge. Chs. 1-3 & 6
2. 05/14 Methodology
R. Waldinger and D. Fitzgerald 2004 “Transnationalism in Question.” American
Journal of Sociology, 109(5): 1177-1195. [E-Journal]
A. Wimmer and N. G. Schiller 2002 “”Methodological Nationalism and Beyond:
Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences.” Global Networks,
2(4): 301-334. [E-Journal]
*Social Capital and Migration in Thailand:
S. R. Curran et al. 2005 “Gendered migrant social capital: Evidence from
Thailand,” Social Forces, 84(1): 225-255.
F. Garip 2008 “Social capital and migration: How do similar resources lead to
divergent outcomes?”Demography, 45(3): 591-617.
3. 05/21 Chinese diaspora:
Ma, L. J. C. 2003 “Space, Place, and Transnationalism in the Chinese Diaspora.”
L. J. C. Ma and C. Cartier eds., The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility,
and Identity. New York: Rowman and Lifflefield. Pp. 1-49.
Ong, A. 1999 Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality.
Durham & London: Duke University Press. Pp.1-26.
*Nonin, D. M. and A. Ong 1997 “Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative
Modernity,” A. Ong and D. M. Nonini, eds., Ungrounded Empires: The
Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. NY: Routledge. PP. 3-33.
*Ong, A. 2008 “Cyberpublics and diaspora politics among transnational
Chinese,” Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo eds., The Anthropology of
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Globalization: A Reader 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. 167-183.
4. 05/28 Media:
M. Georgiou 2007 “Transnational Crossroads for Media and Diaspora: Three
Challenges for Research,” Olga G. Bailey, Maria Georgiou, and Ramaswami
Harindranath eds., Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-Imagining Diaspora.
New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 11-32.
K. Y. Lim and N. M. Luan 2006 “Chinese Newspapers, Ethnic Identity and the
State: The Case of Malaysia,” Wanning Sun ed., Media and the Chinese
Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce. New York: Routledge.
Pp. 137-149
* Karim H. Karim 2007 “Media and Diaspora,” Eoin Devereux ed., Media
Studies: Key Issues and Debates. London: Sage. Pp. 361-379.
5. 06/04 Review
6. 06/11 Review
7. 06/18 Final
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