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Arizona Ranchers Hunt Mexicans [pdf]
Miliitarizing The Border [pdf]
Screaming Our Thoughts [pdf]

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February 23, 2004

Spring Conference 2004-Transnational Pedagogies

Spring Conference 2004

Transnational Pedagogies

February 26th and 27th

Amitava Kumar from Penn State (Guest Lecturer): "The Rate At Which Writing Travels"

Abstract: People travel. Books do too. What is the rate at which, in a globalized world, writing travels in comparison with people? Amitava Kumar's talk--a reading from published as well as new work--will be a report on migrant writing. It will be a commentary on the borders not only between nations but between conditions of knowledge that leave us among a divided world and a divided people.

Professor Kumar will show and lead a discussion on his documentary "Pure Chutney."

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February 07, 2003

Spring Conference 2003-"Writing Programs and Pedagogies in a Globalized Landscape"

Spring Conference 2003

"Writing Programs and Pedagogies in a Globalized Landscape"

Margaret Himley. WPA 26.3 (Spring 2003)

We have entered the brave new world of globalization, the argument goes, a radical new phase in the world economy characterized by "the ascendance of information technologies, the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital, and resulting decline in the regulatory capacity of nation-states over key sectors of their economies" (Sassen 195). This new economic order depends on the transmigration not only of capital and cultural forms but also of people—both the rich (the new transnational professional workforce) and the poor (often immigrant workers, women, and people of color) (Sassen xxxii). Shaped by the broader relations and antagonisms produced within history (Ahmed), globalization raises critical questions about corporate and civic life, technology and information, media, governance, markets, the increasing disparities "between the urban glamour zone and the urban war zone" (Sassen xxxiii), and, inevitably, writing pedagogies and programs.

"Education for Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility" by Julie Andrzejewski & John Alessio, from a special issue of the journal Progressive Perspectives, published at the University of Vermont.

Readings for Teachers 2003

The Cultures of Globalization edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Duke, 1998)

The Globalized Woman: Reports from a Future of Inequality by Christa Wichterich, translated by Patrick Camiller (Zed, 1998)

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett (Norton, 1998)

Globalizations and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Norton, 2002)

Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money by Saskia Sassen (The New Press, 1998)

The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism by James Paul Gee, Glynda Hull, and Colin Lankshear (Westview, 1996)

The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization by Wayne Ellwood (Verso, 2001)

Field Guide to the Global Economy by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh with Thea Lee and the Institute for Policy Studies (The New Press, 2000)

The Lexus and The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman (Anchor Books, 2000)

Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality by Sara Ahmed (Routledge, 2000)

Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber (1995 Ballantine Books, w/ a new introduction written post-September 11.)

Readings for Classroom Use 2003

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett (Norton, 1998)

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin 2001)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, 2001)

What We Think of America (Granta 77, 2002 Granta Publications)

High and Mighty. SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way by Keith Bradsher (2002 Perseus Books Group)

Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices by Allen Hammond (1998 World Resources Institute)

Videos Available at Bird Library

Note: The library has many videorecordings related to globalization. Use the basic search Boolean strategy, and you'll find things such as:

videorecording and globalization:
Globalisation and the media (#10318)

videorecording and women:
Beyond Borders: Arab feminsts talk about their lives (#9700)
SEWA: Self-employed Women's Association (India) (#9436)
Performing the Border (Mexico) (#9437)
Fast Food Women (Kentucky) (#8034)
Women, the New Poor (Connecticut) (Videotape HQ 1381.W66. 1990)

videorecording and environment:
About the UN: environment and development (#5874)
The Environment: scientific spin doctors (9161)

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