SOSC229
INTRODUCTION TO GLOBALIZATION STUDIES
Lecturer: Dr. PUN, Ngai (Room 3364, sonpun@ust.hk)
Lecture Time: Tue-Fri 9:30 am- 12:20 pm
Lecture Venue: 3007
Homepage: teaching.ust.hk/~sosc229
Course Description
This course will provide a cultural critique to the current globalization studies. Recent
studies contribute to our understanding of cogent issues like global cities, trans-border
phenomenon, social polarization, anti- globalization and the like. What is globalization?
How does global city develop? What are the trans-border issues? Shall we have
alternative models? These are the few intrigue questions we will be exploring in the
coming term. Hong Kong and Mainland China will be our foci.
Case-based learning will be led by video shows, and guest speakers. Video teaching and
class discussion are integral to our course structure.
Objectives
1. Concepts of Globalization
2. Major Debates of Globalization Studies
3. Counter Discourses to Globalization
4. Alternative Development Model
Grades and Grading
Mid-term test (Multiple Choice)
Final Exam (Multiple Choice)
40%
40%
Class Participation and Discussion
20%
Total
100%
Time
Lecture 1
June 10
Lecture 2
June 11
Lecture 3
Lecture Topics
Introduction to Globalization Studies: Concepts and Theories
Ankie Hoogvelt 1997 Globalization and the Postcolonial World.
London: MacMillan Press. Pp.114-131.
Video Program: Globalization
Globalization and Global Cities
Josef Gugler, 2004 World Cities Beyond the West, Cambridge U. Press,
pp,1-14
Video: Global City
Globalization and Global Cities: Hong Kong
June 12
Guest Speech
June 13
Lecture 4
June 1 7
Alvin So, 2004 “Hong Kong’s Pathway to becoming a global city”, in
World Cities Beyond the West , pp212-239.
Video Program: 香港製造 (24 min)
Globalization and Social Inequality
Guest Speakers: Professor Meng Jie
Professor Han Jia Ling
Transborder Flow: between Hong Kong and China
Pun Ngai 2003. “Locating Trans-border Subjects: Hong Kong Working
People in Mainland China”, in Representing Local Places and Raising
Voices from Below. pp.61-72.
Mid Term
Video Program: 南來北往 (24 min)
Lecture 5
June 18
Globalization and China (1)
Pun Ngai 2005 Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global
Workplace. Introduction.
Video Program: 小英的故事
CWWN’s Talk
Lecture 6
Globalization and China (2)
June 19
Lecture 7
SACOM’s talk
Globalization and Social Inequality- Hong Kong
Pun Ngai and Wu Ka Ming, “Lived Citizenship and Lower Class Women
in Hong Kong: A Global City without its People”, in Remaking
Citizenship in Hong Kong pp. 139-154.
June 20
Hong Kong Women Workers Association
Lecture 8
Globalization and Social Exclusion- Hong Kong
June 24
Lecture 9
Hong Kong Construction Trade Union
Resistance to Globalization
Christine Chin and James Mittelman, 1997 “Conceptualizing
Resistance to Globalization”, New Political Economy, 2(1):25-38.
June 25
Lecture 10
June 26
Lecture 11
June 27
Clean workers movement in HKBU
Globalization from Below
Anti-Link Forum
Alternative World (1)
Annual Report of Self Employed Women Association, 2003.
Video Program: Community Economy
Lecture 12
Alternative World (2)
June 2
A community partnering project in Wanchai: see
http:www.geocities.com/comewanchai
Final Exam
A community partnering project in Cheung Sha Wan: see
http://www.iri.org.hk/iri_2nd_market.html
All required readings are reserved in the library.