Colonies, Nations, Empires, Globalization

Semester and Year	FA 2010
Course Number	IDSEM-UG1249
Section	001
Instructor	Antonio Lauria-Perricelli
Days	Tue,Thu
Time	4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement	SOC

Description

Colonialism, imperialism, and globalization all involve the domination of one part of the world by another. How do these forms of control differ? How are they related to each other? What are their dimensions in different places and times? What kinds of changes—economic, political, social, sexual, biological—are produced among the dominated and the dominators? What definitions and feelings of “nationhood” develop during these processes? How are peoples drawn into or able to resist these relations? What are the liberatory or the oppressive aspects of different kinds of nationalisms? What do the changing links among countries and peoples signify? How is today’s “globalization” connected to older forms of control, while creating new forms of domination? Texts may include several films ( Life and Debt, The Triumph of the Will, The Battle of Algiers ) with selections from, among others: AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame ; Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, Sexuality, in the Colonial Context ; Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power ; The Wretched of the Earth ; Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism .

Course Type

Interdisciplinary Seminars (IDSEM-UG)