Spring 1998
Dr. Andrew Herod
Department of Geography
(542-2856) or aherod@arches.uga.edu

In this course we will examine a number of debates taking place in the social science literature concerning the contemporary problematic of globalization. Whereas prophets of globalization such as business guru Kenichi Ohmae have argued that we are moving towards an era of global capitalism in which "nothing is overseas anymore" and in which capitalism has become "borderless," others are arguing that in fact during a period of globalization of economic and political systems we are also witnessing an intense "localization" of economic and political life (e.g. the decentralization of government services from the central to the local state, the emergence of regional industrial districts). There are also concerns about the issue of "globalization from above" (globalization imposed by outside forces such as transnational corporations) versus "globalization from below" (the efforts of workers and national liberation movements to build from the ground up organizations to confront global capital), and how global capital is constructed as a discursive or metaphorical "thing." The course will be run as a seminar. A term paper is required.

Week 1 (1/20/98): Discourse and thinking about capitalism and globalization.

J.K. Gibson-Graham (1996) "Strategies" (pp.1-23); "Capitalism and anti-essentialism: An encounter in contradiction" (pp.24-45); "The economy, stupid! Industrial policy discourse and the body politic" (pp.92-119) "Querying globalization" (pp.120-147). In The End of Capitalism (As We Knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. Cambridge, MA: Blackwells.

Sjolander, C. T. (1996) "The rhetoric of globalization: what's in a wor(l)d?" International Journal 51: 603-616.

Leyshon, A. (1997) "True stories? global dreams, global nightmares, and writing globalization." In Lee, R. and Wills, J. (eds.) Geographies of Economies, pp.133-146. London: Arnold.

Dicken, P., Peck, J., and Tickell, A. (1997) "Unpacking the global." In Lee, R. and Wills, J. (eds.) Geographies of Economies, pp.158-166. London: Arnold.

Week 2 (1/26/98): Debates concerning the emergence of the global system

Hopkins, T.K. (1982) "The study of the capitalist world-economy: some introductory remarks," and "Patterns of development of the modern world-system." In World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Methodology, pp. 9-38. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Chase-Dunn, C. and Rubinson, R. (1977) "Toward a structural perspective on the world-system." Politics and Society 7: 453-476.

Andrews, B. (1982) "The political economy of world capitalism: theory and practice." International Organization 36.1: 135-163.

Chase-Dunn, C. (1981) "Interstate system and capitalist world-economy: One logic or two?" International Studies Quarterly 25.1: 19-42.

Brenner, R. (1977) "The origins of capitalist development: a critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism." New Left Review 104: 25-92.

Harvey, D. (1985) "The geopolitics of capitalism." In Gregory, D. and Urry, J. (eds), Social Relations and Spatial Structures. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 128-163.

Week 3 (2/2/98): The Post-war Economic and Political Order

Ó Tuathail, G., Herod, A. and Roberts, S.M. (1998) "Negotiating unruly problematics." In Herod, A., Ó Tuathail, G. and Roberts, S.M. (eds.) An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography, pp. 1-24. Routledge: London and New York.

Thurow, L. (1996) The Future of Capitalism, pp.1-19, 65-87, 88-114, 115-138. New York: William Morrow.

Ruggie, J.G. (1982) "International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the post-war economic order." International Organization 36: 379-415.

Reifer, T. and Sudler, J. (1996) "The interstate system." In Hopkins, T., Wallerstein, I., et al. The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-System, 1945-2025, pp.13-37. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books.

Wallerstein, I. (1996) "The global picture." In Hopkins, T., Wallerstein, I., et al. The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-System, 1945-2025, pp.209-225. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books.

Kennedy, P. (1993) "The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation." In Kennedy, P. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, pp. 47-64. New York: Random House.

Reich, R.B. (1990) "Who is us?" Harvard Business Review Jan/ Feb: 53-64.

Kapstein, E.B. (1991/92) "We are us: the myth of the multinational." The National Interest 26: 55-62.

Brecher, J. and Costello, T. (1994) Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up, pp. 49-63. Boston: South End Press.

Harvey, D. (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity, pp. 121-172. Cambridge, MA: Blackwells.

Week 4 (2/9/98): Towards a borderless world? Full Steam Ahead!

Bergsten, F. (1996) "Globalizing free trade." Foreign Affairs 75.3: 105-120.

Kanter, R.M. (1995) World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, pp. 39-52, 60-89. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Kofman, E. and Youngs, G. (1996) Globalization: Theory and Practice. London: Pinter.

Ohmae, K. (1990) The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, pp.82-100, 137-145, 172-192. New York: HarperBusiness.

Ohmae, K. (1995) The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies, pp. 1-5, 79-100. New York: Free Press.

Bryan, L. and Farrell, D. (1996) Market Unbound: Unleashing Global Capitalism, pp. 1-35; 152-195; 220-235. New York: John Wiley.

Gates, B., with Myhrvold, N. and Rinearson, P. (1995) The Road Ahead, pp. 157-183. New York: Viking.

World Bank (1996) From Plan to Market: World Development Report 1996. New York: Oxford University Press.

Week 5 (2/16/98): Towards a borderless world? Not so fast!

Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. (1996) "Introduction: Globalization -- A necessary myth?" (pp. 1-17); "Globalization and the history of the international economy" (pp. 18-50); "Multinational corporations and the globalization thesis" (pp. 76-98). In Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. Globalization in Question. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Carlisle, C.R. (1996) "Is the world ready for free trade?" Foreign Affairs 75.6: 113-126.

Barnet, R. and Cavanagh, J. (1994) Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order, pp. 163-183, 208-232, 419-430. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Cox, R. (1996) "A perspective on globalization." In Mittelman, J. (ed.) Globalization: Critical Perspectives, pp. 21-30. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Mair, A. (1997) "Strategic localization: The myth of the postnational enterprise." In Kevin Cox (ed.) Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, pp. 64-88. Guilford: New York and London.

Greider, W. (1997) One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism, pp. 39-53, 122-145, 333-359. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Vogel, S. (1996) Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries, pp.1-5, 9-24. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Week 6 (2/23/98): Globalization and the state vs. globalization of the state?

Dunn, J. (ed.) (1995) Contemporary Crisis of the Nation-State?, pp. 3-15, 130-145. Oxford: Blackwell.

Guéhenno, J.-M. (1995) The End of the Nation State, pp. 1-17. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Ó Tuathail, G. and Luke, T. (1994) "Present at the (dis)integration: deterritorialization and reterritorialization in the New Wor(l)d Order." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84: 381-398.

Webber, M. (1998) "Producing globalization: Apparel and the Australian state." In Herod, A., Ó Tuathail, G., and Roberts, S.M. (eds.) An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography, pp. 135-161. Routledge: London and New York.

Kennedy, P. (1993) "The future of the nation-state." In Kennedy, P. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, pp. 122-134. New York: Random House.

Broadhead, L.-A. (1996) "Commissioning consent: globalization and global governance." International Journal 51: 651-668.

Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (1997) "Globalization, socio-economics, territoriality." In Lee, R. and Wills, J. (eds.) Geographies of Economies, pp.147-157. London: Arnold.

Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. (1996) "Globalization, governance and the nation state." In Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. Globalization in Question, pp. 170-194. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Roberts, S. (1995) "Global regulation and trans-state organization." In Johnston, R.J., Taylor, P.J., and Watts, M. (eds.) Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century, pp. 111-126. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Mathews, J.T. (1997) "Power shift." Foreign Affairs 76.1: 50-66.

Rosecrance, R. (1996) "The rise of the virtual state." Foreign Affairs 75.4: 45-61.

Week 7 (3/2/98): Global culture versus local culture? Or, towards "Glocalization"?

Johnston, R.J., Taylor, P.J., and Watts, M. (1995) "Introduction to part IV: Modernity, identity, and machineries of meaning." In Johnston, R.J., Taylor, P.J., and Watts, M. (eds.) Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century, pp. 227-231. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Kanter, R.M. (1995) World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, pp. 123-144. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Barber, B. (1995) Jihad vs. McWorld pp.88-117; 155-216. New York: Ballantine.

Huntington, S. (1996) "The West unique, not universal." Foreign Affairs 75.6: 28-46.

Marden, P. (1997) "Geographies of dissent: globalization, identity and the nation." Political Geography 16.1: 37-64.

Luke, T. and Ó Tuathail, G. (1998) "Global flowmations, local fundamentalisms, and fast geopolitics: 'America' in an accelerating world order." In Herod, A., Ó Tuathail, G., and Roberts, S.M. (eds.) An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography, pp. 72-94. Routledge: London and New York.

Luke, T. (1995) "New world order or neo-world orders: power, politics and ideology in informationalizing glocalities." In Featherstone, M., Lash, S., and Robertson, R. (eds.) Global Modernities, pp. 91-107. London: Sage.

Pieterse, J.N. (1995) "Globalization as hybridization." In Featherstone, M., Lash, S., and Robertson, R. (eds.) Global Modernities, pp. 45-68. London: Sage.

Routledge, P. (1995) "Resisting and reshaping the modern: Social movements and the development process." In Johnston, R.J., Taylor, P.J., and Watts, M. (eds.) Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century, pp. 263-279. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Thurow, L. (1996) The Future of Capitalism, pp.232-241. New York: William Morrow.

Week 8 (3/9/98): Workers, Trade Unions, and Globalization from the bottom up?

Herod, A. (1995): "The practice of international labor solidarity and the geography of the global economy." Economic Geography 71.4, 341-363.

Herod, A. (1997): "Labor as an agent of globalization and as a global agent." In Kevin Cox (ed.) Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, pp. 167-200. Guilford: New York and London.

Herod, A. (1998) : "Of blocs, flows and networks: The end of the Cold War, cyberspace, and the geo-economics of organized labor at the fin de millénaire." In Herod, A., Ó Tuathail, G., and Roberts, S.M. (eds.) An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography, pp. 162-195. Routledge: London and New York.

Adler, G. (1996) "Global restructuring and labor: The case of the South African trade union movement." In Mittelman, J. (ed.) Globalization: Critical Perspectives, pp. 117-143. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Dirks, G.E. (1993) "International migration in the nineties: causes and consequences." International Journal 58: 191-214.

Pellerin, H. (1993) "Global restructuring in the world economy and migration: the globalization of migration dynamics." International Journal 58: 240-254.

Rifkin, J.(1995) The End of Work, pp. 3-14, 165-180, 198-207. New York: Putnam. pp.172-80

Brecher, J. and Costello, T. (1994) Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up, pp. 15-33, 143-165. Boston: South End Press.

Roberts, S.M. (1998) Geo-governance in trade and finance and political geographies of dissent." In Herod, A., Ó Tuathail, G., and Roberts, S.M. (eds.) An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography, pp. 116-131. Routledge: London and New York.

Kapstein, E.B. (1996) "Workers and the world economy." Foreign Affairs 75.3: 16-37.

Sassen, S. (1988) The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow, pp. 94-125. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Week 9 (3/16/98): Student Paper Presentations.