POL438H1F L0101

Topics in Comparative Politics I

Other Worlds, Other Globalizations

Themes

Examining the way the term ‘globalisation’ is normally used - about what civil society (the civil parts of society - state, market, civil movement) is doing, and the diaphanous networks it is building, spanning the globe (Keane 2001). The way most civil research and media presentation on what is called ‘anti-globalisation’ also focuses on what ‘social’ movements do, by and large belonging to civil society. How the project of building a ‘global civil society’ is at the heart of what is projected as globalisation, where globalisation is civil-isation. Critically explore civility and the idea of incivil societies, and also other worlds and other globalisations : On how the world is also being profoundly globalised by ‘others’ and by other, everyday processes of globalisation; and at how ‘globalisation’ sometimes forces those who are oppressed or marginalised by it to resort to other norms of social formation and to other globalisations.

Prerequisites

2.0 credits in POL/ JPA/ JPF/ JPI/ JPR/ JPS/ JRA courses