Johannes Angermüller, ISOZ Magdeburg
HS Makrosoziologie, PS European Studies

Power and Globalization


summer 2003, Thursdays 17:15am to 18:45pm
office hours: Tuesdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm
email: ; ph.: 7337336
internet: www.johannes-angermuller.net

Course Syllabus

1) April 3rd 2003
Introduction

2) April 10th 2003
>> Politics and space in Weber

Max Weber (1978[1921]): “Political Communities”. In: Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology. Transl. by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 901-939.

3) April 17th 2003
>> Power and capitalism in Marxism

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (1998[1848]): The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition. London, New York: Verso, pp. 33-50.
C. Wright Mills (1969): “The Structure of Power in American Society.” In: Irving Louis Horowitz (ed.), Power, politics and people: the collected essays of C. Wright Mills, London et al.: Oxford University Press, pp. 23-38.

4) April 24th 2003
>> Globalization as a problem of postclassical sociology

Roland Robertson (1990): “Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity.” In: Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture. Nationalism, globalization and modernity. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 25-44.
Zygmunt Bauman (1998): “After the Nation-State – What?” In: Globalization: the human consequences. Cambridge: Polity Press, p. 55-76.

Supplementary: Robertson, Roland (1992): “Globalization as a Problem.” In: Globalization. Social Theory and Global Culture. London, Newbury Park, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 8-31.

5) No classes on May 1st and 8th 2003! 
Time to write up your first essay!

6) May 15th 2003
>> World system(s) theory I

!!Turn in your first essay based on reading assignments from April 10th to April 24th!!

Wallerstein, Immanuel (1974): The Modern World-System. Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press, pp. 3-11.
Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills (1993): “The 5000-year world system. An interdisciplinary introduction.” In: Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills (eds.), The World System. Five hundred years or five thousand? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 3-11.
Samir Amin (1993): “The Ancient World-System Versus the Modern Capitalist World-System.” In: Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills (eds.), The World System. Five hundred years or five thousand? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 247-277.

Supplementary: Janet Abu-Lughod (1993): “Discontinuities and Persistence. One world system or a succession of systems?” In: Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills (eds.), The World System. Five hundred years or five thousand? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 278-291.

7) May 22nd 2003
>> World system(s) theory II

Immanuel Wallerstein (1990): “Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System.” In: Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture. Nationalism, globalization and modernity. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 31-55.
Robertson, Roland (1992): “World Systems Theory, Culture and World Order.” In: Globalization. Social Theory and Global Culture. London, Newbury Park, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 60-83.

Supplementary:Immanuel Wallerstein (1993): “World System Versus World-Systems.” In: Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills (eds.), The World System. Five hundred years or five thousand? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 292-307.

8) No class on May 29th 2003

9) June 5th 2003
>> Regulation theory I: post-fordism and space

Storper, Michael and Allen J. Scott (1989): „The geographical foundations and social regulation of flexible production complexes.“ In: Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear (eds.): The Power of Geography. How Territory Shapes Social Life. Boston: Unwin Hyman, pp. 21-40.
Jean François Vidal (2002[1995]): “International Regimes.” In: Robert Boyer and Yves Saillard (eds.), Régulation Theory. The state of the art. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 108-114.
Arrighi, Giovanni (1994): The Long Twentieth Century. London and New York, pp. 27-74.
The text by Doreen Massey is dropped!

Supplementary: Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch (1989): “How Territory Shapes Social Life.” In: Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear (eds.), The Power of Geography. How Territory Shapes Social Life. Boston: Unwin Hyman, pp. 3-14.

10) June 12th 2003
>> Regulation theory II: longue durée and regimes of accumulation

Arrighi, Giovanni (1994): The Long Twentieth Century. London and New York, pp. 27-74.

Supplementary: Fredric Jameson (1998): “Culture and Finance Capital.” In: The Cultural Turn. Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. London, New York: Verso, pp. 136-161.

11) June 19th 2003
>> Global capitalism and biopower

!!Turn in your second essay based on reading assignments from May 15th to June 12th!!

Michel Foucault (1988[1978]): “On Power.” In: Politics, Philosophy, Culture. Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 96-109.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri (2000): Empire. Cambridge, MA, London: Harvard University Press, pp. xi-xvii, 22-41.
Ulf Hannerz (1990): “Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture.” In: Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture. Nationalism, globalization and modernity. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 237-251.

Supplementary: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1988[1980]): A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia, London: The Athlone Press, pp. 404-423.
Michel Foucault (1988[1978]): “Power and Sex.” In: Politics, Philosophy, Culture. Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 110-124.

12) June 26th 2003
>> Globalization and Culture - Towards a Global State?

Roland Robertson (1992): “The Cultural Turn.” In: Globalization. Social Theory and Global Culture. London, Newbury Park, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 32-49.
Arjun Appadurai (1990): “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” In: Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture. Nationalism, globalization and modernity. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 295-310.

Supplementary: Naomi Klein (2000): No Logo, London: Flamingo, pp. xiii-xxi, 3-26.

Supplementary: Yves Dezalay (1990): “The Big Bang and the Law: The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field.” In: Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture. Nationalism, globalization and modernity. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 279-293.

13) July 3rd 2003
Conclusion

GENERAL REMARKS: Each participant is encouraged to give a presentation during one of the classes (10 minutes). On May 15th and June 19th the students are expected to turn in short essays (MA students: 3 to 5 pages, European Studies: 2 to 3 pages, in English or in German) where the reading assignments of the preceding sessions are to be critically discussed and own ideas should be developed. 2 Credit points can be obtained for participation, a presentation and the two essays, an additional 3 credit points can be obtained for a longer essay (MA students: 15 to 20 pages, European studies: around 10 pages). A “Leistungsschein” will require participation, a presentation, the two short essays and the longer essay. Class attendance is obligatory at all times; up to two absences are possible on justification only. A few tips, explanations and guiding questions for your reading convenience will be posted by every Sunday evening before each class at http://www.johannes-angermuller.net (look for the link “Lehre”, then for the class). Due to other obligations the class of May 8th will be moved to another week, possibly to the end of the semester.