-based on the content of our course, use an ethnographic method: how can you use the ethnographic method in your essay to make your point
-“An essay is a critical analysis of a scientific position and should comprise between five to ten pages. By composing essays students can show their ability to present scientific positions, weigh them up by means of argumentation, scrutinize them, express their independent opinion on them and establish connections between them. “
• A clear argument 10%
• the range of relevant literature used 9%
• the application of theory to the case in question 9%
• the extent to which material has been synthesised 9%
• the clarity and coherence of the overall written piece 9%
• the extent to which the remit of the assignment brief has been met 9%
• the accuracy with which relevant theoretical arguments, concepts and data are described 9%
• the degree to which the theories and concepts discussed are integrated and contextualised 9%
• the coherence and integration of the structure of the work presented 9%
• the clarity (spelling, grammar, etc.) and technical accuracy with which ideas are expressed 9%
• the use of properly referenced sources to support the arguments made 9%
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-Mathews, G., & Vega, C. A. (2012). Introduction: What is globalization from below?. In: Globalization from Below. Routledge. (pp. 11-26)
-Inda, J. X., & Rosaldo, R. (2002). Introduction: a world in motion. In The anthropology of globalization: A reader. Wiley-Blackwell. (pp. 1-34)
Guiding questions for your reading:
– The Mathews et al. introduction looks at “globalization as experienced by most of the world’s people”. Why do they say “globalization from below” exists? Why do they focus on the informal transnational economy? Which of the sub-chapters are you most interested in?
– The Inda & Rosaldo introduction provides a critical investigation of globalization understood as “intensification of global interconnectedness” by taking an explicitly anthropological perspective. How do Harvey and Giddens conceptualize globalization? What does it mean to say that “the experience of globalization is a rather uneven process”?. What is anthropological about their approach? (Hint: for them, globalization is “situated and conjunctural” and scholars should pay “concrete attentiveness to human agency, to the practices of everyday life”. What does it mean to say that “the cultural dynamics of globalization” are about “the realm of meaning”? Which of the “specific flows” are you most interested in?
-de Sousa Santos, B., & Rodríguez-Garavito, C. A. (2005). Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization. In: Law and Globalization from below: towards a cosmopolitan legality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge–New York, (pp. 1-26)
Enloe, C. (2014). Gender makes the world go round: Where are the women?. In: Bananas, beaches and bases. University of California Press. (Chapter 1)
(you only need to read these introductory chapters)
– de Sousa Santos & Rodríguez-Garavito focus on “theories and empirical studies on law and globalization” and criticise that they only focus on the “most visible, hegemonic actors” and that there is a need instead to highlight “growing grassroots contestation”. What is, then, “subaltern cosmopolitan legality”? What is the “governance approach” to understanding globalization and how does it differ from the counter-hegemonic perspective that the authors prefer? What parts of their perspective do you find convincing?
– Enloe argues that making feminist sense of international politics means looking at the lives of women usually dismissed. The focus of her book is not so much about “globalization”, and more on international politics – but key insights are transferable to our general debate, namely: how masculinities and femininities shape global political life. Why does a feminist gender analysis require the investigation of *power*? How has lack of attention to feminist/intersectional perspectives shaped globalization scholarship? How could it be improved?
