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Faculty
Lars Bo Kaspersen (LBK), Jeppe Strandsbjerg (JS), and Grahame F. Thompson (GT).

Course Coordinator
Lars Bo Kaspersen & Jeppe Strandsbjerg, CBP

Prerequisite/progression of the course

In preparation for the course, the participants are asked to write a 2 page paper (700-1000 words) reflecting on how the globalisation problematique is relevant for their research project. This will have to be submitted a week prior to the start of the course, and will serve as a basis for a short (ca. 15 min.) presentation during the course. Please also note that it is a requirement to attend the whole course in order to receive the course diploma.

Aim of the course

This course aims to give research students an advanced introduction to globalisation and discuss the various aspects most commonly associated with globalisation. The course aims to present a broad understanding of globalisation covering the way that the phenomenon is discussed in a number of different disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. In particular, the course will stress theoretical and methodological aspects of the globalisation phenomenon.

Course content, structure and teaching

The course investigates four themes in the globalisation literature. Each of the four themes will be discussed from a theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspective:

1. Globalisation history, where we introduce the social transformation in production, war, and cultural identity associated with European expansion to control the entire globe. It is a central theme of the course to see globalisation as a long, but non-linear, historical process. For heuristic purposes we divide history into five periods: 1450-1789, 1789-1914, 1914-1945, 1945-1971, and 1971-now.

2. Globalisation today, where we investigate the economic, political and cultural transformations described as globalising today. In particular, we investigate the spatial reconfiguration of social relations that play a central role in the globalisation literature. Recent literature stresses that globalisation is more about a transformation of space than of time. We ask what is happening in these areas, and do these social changes justify the notion of globalisation.

3. New forms of politics, where we analyse ideas of new modes of political organisation and governance. We ask how globalisation have changed our perception of society, what this means for governing society, and in particular how we should relate to the global arena as a site for politics. Central for these discussions is the literature on global governance, and cosmopolitanism.

4. The end of globalisation? Finally, we discuss whether an unfolding financial, economic, political, and social crisis will take us to the end of globalisation or move towards a new regulated order.

17-20 May 2010	Monday 17/5	Tuesday 18/5	Wednesday 19/5	Thursday 20/5
9.00 – 11.00	One session from 10-12: Coffee, welcome --- 1. What is Globalisation: basic theories and concepts (LBK/JS)	4. Economic Globalisation (GT)	7. Globalisation’s Reconfiguration of Space and Time (JS)	9. Global Governance (JS)
11.00 – 12.00	student presentations + discussion	student presentations + discussion	student presentations + discussion	student presentations + discussion
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13.00 – 15.00	2. Early history of globalisation (JS)	5. Political Globalisation (JS)	8. Cosmopolitan Democracy (LBK)	student presentations + discussion
15.00 – 17.00	3. Modern history of globalisation (LBK)	6. Cultural Globalisation (LBK)	student presentations + discussion	10. The End of Globalisation (GT)

Learning Objectives

The students will get an advanced introduction to globalisation theory as well as an empirical grasp of globalisation processes. This aims to enable the student to assess various claims to globalisation, and use the concept in their own research.

Teaching methods

Presentations by teachers, common discussions, and student presentations.

Course literature

A reader will be ready 6 weeks prior to the course. The reader will among other authors include articles by Giddens, Arrighi, Appadurai, Castells, Hardt & Negri, Robertson, Pogge, Wolf, and Hogevelt. Moreover, we require that the participants have read parts of D. Held & A. McGrew (eds), Globalization Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007 and P. Hirst, G. Thompson, & Simon Bromley (2009), Globalization in Question. Cambridge: Polity Press (3rd.revised edition)

Recommended literature

To become familiar with the field participants can read R. Robertson, Globalization or D. Held et al, Global Transformation.

Enrolment

Phd-secretary Mette Grue Nielsen, Center for Business and Politics ( mgn.cbp@cbs.dk) or Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen ( lbk.cbp@cbs.dk)

Sidst opdateret af Anje Schmidt 21.01.2010