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The final evaluation will include assessment based on the student's ability to:
- understand and use key concepts and theories in the study of globalisation and global society, drawing on literatures in sociology, human geography and anthropology;
- understand the possible methodologies that might be used to study globalisation and global society, including the respective strength and weaknesses of quantitative, qualitative and comparative methods;
- identify, narrow down and operationalise in terms of empirical questions particular case studies or specified topics that can illustrate some pertinent dimension of the study of globalisation and global society
- organise, structure and present a well reasoned, original and fully referenced academic argument within an essay style format, or where asked, other shorter class-based or take-home exercises
The course equips students with tools to assess to what extent the contemporary world can be described as global, globalised or globalising. Building on and/or in parallel to the course on Global Modern History, it provides an introduction to the study of globalisation reflecting the broad contributions of sociologists, human geographers, anthropologists and others to these debates. It provides solid grounding in key concepts and dimensions of globalisation, including notions of migration, mobilities, regional and global integration, glocalisation, transnationalism, flows, networks and scapes, and also seeks to identify concrete ways in which such theoretical debates can and have been operationalised in empirical terms. It begins with reflection on the key historical question of the comparative intensity and extensity of globalisation today in comparison with the age of empire and nation-state formation in the late 19th century; it will then trace the trajectory of regional integration(s) and globalisation in the post-World War II era, before looking at various dimensions of globalisation today in more detail. It will seek to bring in non-anglo-centric, non-eurocentric views of the world, including the broad literature on post-colonialism; it will also make broad use of the comparison of globalisation in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as questions concerning global cities, global networks and organisations, and forms of globalisation apparently challenging the dominant organisation of the modern world into nation-state-societies.
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Christoffer Kølvraa
Lectures, seminar discussion and where appropriate individual or group presentations. Students may also be asked to meet as individuals or in groups in smaller tutorial sessions.
English
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Remarks The examination will consist of small in-class exercises, submitted coursework and formal essays
