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Transnational Studies SOC 783 B. Nadya Jaworsky Room 3.59 Tuesdays 16:00 – 18:00 Wednesdays 14:00 – 15:40

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Transnational Studies SOC 783. B. Nadya Jaworsky Room 3.59 Tuesdays 16:00 – 18:00 Wednesdays 14:00 – 15:40. Conditions for passing the course : 1. Short (1-page) written responses to readings (you will e-mail these to me each week by Monday 23:59) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Transnational StudiesSOC 783

B. Nadya JaworskyRoom 3.59

Tuesdays 16:00 – 18:00Wednesdays 14:00 – 15:40

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Conditions for passing the course:

1. Short (1-page) written responses to readings (you will e-mail these to me each week by Monday 23:59)

2. Oral presentation in class (5-7 minutes)

3. Final essay (minimum 10 pages)

4. Written final exam

Coursework will be evaluated as follows:25% - reading, responses and class participation

15% - oral presentation

30% - written exam

30% - academic paper

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a set of multiple interlocking networks of social relationships through which ideas, practices, and resources are unequally exchanged, organized, and transformed

SOCIAL FIELDS

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the tendency to accept the nation-state and its boundaries as a given in social analysis

METHODOLOGICALNATIONALISM

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• the globalization of capitalism with its destabilizing effects on less industrialized countries;

• the technological revolution in the means of transportation and communication;

• global political transformations such as decolonization and the universalization of human rights; and

• the expansion of social networks that facilitate the reproduction of transnational migration, economic organization, and politics.

WHAT’S DIFFERENT at the end of the 20th century?

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• one of the central ingredients in the circular and cumulative causation of modernity.

• the key element in RACIAL FORMATION is

the link between significance and structure, between what race means in a particular discursive practice and how, based upon such interpretations, social structures are racially organized.

• the task is to develop a racial formation approach in a world-historical perspective: global racial formations

• historical time as “racial long duree.”

RACE (according to Winant)

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Howard Winant Paul Gilroy

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“The specificity of the modern political and cultural

formation I want to call the Black Atlantic can be defined, on one level, through [a] desire to transcend both the structures of the nation state and the constraints of ethnicity and national particularity. These desires are relevant to understanding political organizing and cultural criticism. They have always sat uneasily alongside the strategic choices forced on black movements and individuals embedded in national and political cultures and nation-states in America, the Caribbean, and Europe.”

PAUL GILROY

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Ethnoscapes - the landscape of persons who make up the shifting worlds in which we live: tourist, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest workers, and other moving groups and persons. They constitute an essential feature of the world and appear to affect the politics of and between nations to a hitherto unprecedented degree.

Arjun Appadurai

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Deterritorialization•a growing variety of social activities takes place irrespective of the geographical location of participants (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

•the severance of social, political, or cultural practices from their native places and populations (Oxford Pocket Dictionary of English)

•Deterritorialization is the complex movement or process by which something escapes or deaprts a given territory (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)

•Deterritorialization idealistically posits the ability to be unanchored from any specific historical obligation (Deleuze and Guattari, Anti Oedipus)

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India Cabaret, 1985

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Appadurai’s “Scapes”

•Ethnoscapes•Mediascapes•Technoscapes•Financescapes•Ideoscapes

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“Recovering the relationships between past subaltern political identities and practices and transnational networks can bring marginalized forms of subaltern identity and agency to the forefront. Further, asserting that there have been spatially stretched forms of resistance to globalizing processes in the past can energize contemporary political imaginaries.”

A “Usable Past”(Featherstone)

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Chapter 17, pp. 217-221 in TS Reader. “Of our spiritual strivings,” by W.E.B. Du Bois.

Chapter 29, pp. 333-338 in TS Reader . “Locations of Culture,” by Homi K. Bhabha.

Chapter 31, pp. 342-346 in TS Reader. “Cultural Reconversion,” by Nestor Garcia Canclini.

Martiniello, Marco, and Jean-Michel Lafleur. 2008. "Ethnic Minorities’ Cultural and Artistic Practices as Forms of Political Expression: A Review of the Literature and a Theoretical Discussion on Music." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34:1191-1215.

Sheringham, O. "A Transnational Space? Transnational Practices, Place-Based Identity and the Making of 'Home' among Brazilians in Gort, Ireland." Portuguese Studies 26:60-78.

Smith, M. P., and L. E. Guarnizo. 2009. "Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship." Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 100:610-622.

READINGS – WEEK 4

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Syllabus•1st Seminar: Definition of Key Terms and Broad Foundations -

What is ‘Transnationalism’?•3rd Seminar: Historical Perspectives•4th Seminar: Identity; Arts and Culture•5th Seminar: The Diffusion of Values, Norms and Meanings•6th Seminar: Religious Life across Borders and

Transnational Islam•7th Seminar: No class – reading period•8th Seminar: Migration•9th Seminar: Corporations, Classes and Capitalism•10th Seminar: Non-state Actors, NGOs and Social Movements•11th Seminar: Security, Crime and Violence (focus on terrorism)•12th Seminar: Methodological Practices – what does it mean to

use a ‘transnational lens’ to study social phenomena?•13th Seminar: What is the future of ‘transnational studies’?