Using the readings and films listed below… Explain how and why the international state system further segregates people rather than bringing people closer together? What are people doing to challenge these segregations?
Consider the readings, films, discussions and journal entries for this “Unit” when composing your response. Be sure to cite at least one film, and at least 3 readings
Readings and films
Read Massey, Doreen. “A Global Sense of Place.” Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1994. 146-156.
Read Cooper, Frederick. “Introduction: From Colonies to Third World.” Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 1-19.
Read Baylis, Smith, S. & Owens, P. (2011). The Globalization of World Politics: An introduction to international relations. 5th edition. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN: 978-0-19-956909-0
Ch 1: Globalization and Global Politics
Ch 2: The Evolution of International Society
Ch 25: Culture in World Affairs
Watch the film Life and Debt
Read Anzaldúa, Gloria. “Preface” and “The Homeland, Aztlán.” Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987. 1-13. [You may access this reading under “Library Resources” located in the left menu.]
Read Baylis et al: Ch 24: Nationalism
Ch 26: Regionalism in International Affairs
Ch 32: Globalization and the Transformation of Political Community
Ch 4: From the Cold War to the World Economic Crisis
Watch the film This is What Democracy Looks Like.
Read Brah, Avtar. “Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities.” Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Eds. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills. New York: Routledge, 2003. 613-634. [You may access this reading under “Library Resources” located in the left menu.]
Read Baylis et al: Ch 12: International Ethics
Ch 20: Transnational Actors and International Organizations in Global Politics
Ch 22: Terrorism and Globalization
Watch the film Dirty, Pretty, Things