Call Number | 11116 |
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Day & Time Location |
R 10:10am-12:00pm 401 Hamilton Hall |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | Instructor |
Instructor | Kevin Funk |
Type | SEMINAR |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | Even in the midst of resurging nationalism, we continue to live in an intensely interconnected world where distant protests trigger local action, local pathogens seed global pandemics, international maneuverings cause local wars, faraway wars bring migrants and refugees to one’s community, global finance reshapes cityscapes, and a mounting climate crisis creates new living conditions everywhere. While studies of “globalization” often take a birds-eye view of the impacts of global interconnectivity, this course focuses also on regions, localities, and our own communities, as we seek to make sense of how the spaces that exist all around us are implicated in, and generative of, various kinds of global flows, ranging from capital, goods, and people to ideas, cultural products, and aesthetic preferences. Our broader aim, then, is to understand how the mutual imbrication of the local and the global generates tendencies that simultaneously flatten space and accentuate disparate socio-spatial dynamics and inequalities. In turn, we will also hone methodologies for investigating the complex and uneven ways global phenomena continually reshape communities and individual lives. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Committee on Global Thought |
Enrollment | 7 students (20 max) as of 4:06PM Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
Subject | Committee on Global Thought |
Number | GR6320 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Interfaculty |
Section key | 20233CGTH6320G001 |