GLCb1011 Globalization and its challenges

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Baroš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
György Ligeti, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Josef Patočka (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Karel Němeček (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies (34,00 %), Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies (33,00 %), Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies (33,00 %)
Timetable
Wed 18:00–19:40 U41
Prerequisites
none
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces students to various layers of ever increasing interconnection and interdependence of societies at the global level. The rising concern about the fate of the world as a whole and the massive processes of destabilisation of social institutions and certainties is addressed, too.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of the major periods in the history of globalization;
- identify and describe current trends of globalization;
- write an essay outlining local modes of appropriation of global processes in respect to its political, environmental and social aspects;
Syllabus
  • 20.09.23 Introduction (online)

  • 27.09.23 Economic globalization and its critics (NJ)
  • Reading:
  • Korten, David, 1995: When Corporations Rule the World. London: Earthscan. Chapter 5: Assault of the Corporate Libertarians. P. 69 – 86, Ch. 14: The Money Game, p. 185 – 193, Ch. 15: Predatory Finance, p. 195 - 206

  • 04.10.23 Economic globalization, climate change and environmental decline (NJ) Reading:
  • Klein, Naomi, 2014: This changes everything. New York: Simon and Schuster. Chapter 2: Hot Money: How Free market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet, p. 64 - 95

  • 11.10.23 Economic globalization vs. food sovereignty (NJ)
  • Reading:
  • Wise, Timothy, 2019: Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers and the Future of Food. New York: The New Press . Introduction to Part III and Chapter 8: NAFTA´s Assault on Mexico´s Family Farmers, p. 207 – 240

    18.10.23 Beyond globalization: pathways to socio-economic transformations (NJ)
  • Reading:
  • Lewis, Michael and Pat Conaty, 2012: The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative transitions to a steady-state economy. Gabriola island: New Society Publishers. Chapter 2: Wealth vs. Commonwealth, p. 39 – 70

  • Sitrin, Marina A., 2012: Everyday revolutions: Horizontalism and autonomy in Argentina. London: Zed Books.: First part of Chapter 3 Horizontalidad, p. 61 – 73

  • 25.10.23 Global mobilities (CSZ)
  • Reading:
  • Babb, Sarah, and Alexander Kentikelenis. 2021. “Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change.” Annual Review of Sociology 47(1):521–41.

  • Yates-Doerr, Emily, Lauren Carruth, Gideon Lasco, and Rosario García-Meza. 2023. “Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model—and Intervention Otherwise.” Annual Review of Anthropology 52(1):annurev-anthro-041520-093024.

  • 01.11.23 Planetary urbanisation (CSZ)
  • Reading:
  • Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2020. “Cities of the Global South.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):603–22.

  • McGuire, Randall H. 2020. “The Materiality and Heritage of Contemporary Forced Migration.” Annual Review of Anthropology 49(1):175–91.

  • 08.10.23 Transnational Migration (CSZ)
  • Reading:
  • Hagan, Jacqueline Maria, and Joshua Thomas Wassink. 2020. “Return Migration Around the World: An Integrated Agenda for Future Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):533–52.

  • Kraly, Ellen Percy, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Lorraine Lizbeth Torres Colón, and Holly E. Reed. 2023. “Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration.” Annual Review of Sociology 49(1):129–53.

  • 15.11.23 Denationalisation (CSZ)
  • Reading:
  • Harrington, Brooke, and Leonard Seabrooke. 2020. “Transnational Professionals.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):399–417.

  • Roche, Gerald. 2022. “The Necropolitics of Language Oppression.” Annual Review of Anthropology 51(1):31–47.

  • 22.11.23 Human Rights in Global Politics (JB)
  • Reading:
  • Glendon, Mary Ann 2002. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House, Ch. 12 (“Universalism under Siege”), 221-233.

    Pogge, Thomas. 2010. Politics as Usual: What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric. Cambridge: Polity Press, Ch. 2 (“Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor”), 26–56.

  • 29.11.23 Open and Closed Borders (JB)
  • Reading:
  • Miller, David. 2019. “Is There a Human Right to Immigrate?” In: Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi et al. Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11-30.

  • Oberman, Kieran. 2019. “Immigration as a Human Right.” In: Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi et al. Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 32-53.

  • 06.12.23 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (JB)
  • Reading:
  • Held, David. 2010. Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities. Cambridge: Polity Press, 67–92.

  • Miller, David. 2016. Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, Ch. 1 (“Cosmopolitanism, Compatriot Partiality, and Human Rights”), 20–37.

  • 13.12.23 Corporate Capitalism and Modern Democracy (JB)
  • Reading:
  • Wolin, Sheldon 2004. Politics and Vision. Princeton: Princeton UP, s. 557-568, 581-606.
Literature
  • see Syllabus
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion. Active attendance on 10 session.

Study workload in hours:
Classes: 25 hours
Readings: 63 hours (cca 440 pages)
Writing learning diaries: 37 hours
Revisions for written exam: 25 hours
Total: 150 hours
Assessment methods
Three written assignments during the term (learning diaries for 30 points) and a final written examination (60 points). Activity bonus for 10 points.

Deadlines for submitting the learning diaries: 25.10.2023; 29.11.2023; 19.12.2023.
Language of instruction
English
Teacher's information
How to write a learning diary

A learning diary is a tool for self-understanding. It helps you to assess what you have learned during the course. It will also demonstrate your ability to organize and interpret knowledge.

The key to writing a learning diary is commenting on the readings, but instead of repeating what the author has said, you should speak with your voice. A diary is subjective; a learning diary should reflect critically on what you have heard and learned. The authors' and teacher's ideas may be further elaborated, but the student's interpretations and insights count.

Put the readings into perspective! How do they relate to your prior learning and life experience? (What was new to you? Was there something that changed your views? ) What trains of thought have readings and lectures set in motion? Focus on and describe the themes important to you. (What did you not understand? What went against your ideas?) Take note of the examples that clarify your views of the issues, but also explore the questions that puzzled you.

Write a page or about 300 words for each session. Note, however, that there are four sessions in each of the first two learning diaries in the case of the third three sessions. The firs two diaries will thus have a total of 1200 words each, with 900 words in the case of the last diary.
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