ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS:
The suggested reading list is meant to help guide you to find useful readings. You CAN go further than these. You may want to take a particular focus for your essay and so you will need to fine tune your readings – by finding others and discarding some in the list below.
For a good essay at this level of university, you should be reading at least 20 sources (primary and secondary) for the 2000 word research essay.
ESSAY QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTED READING LIST:
QUESTIONS:
1. To what extent is ‘identity’ socially constructed? Use case studies and examples from your readings and any other sources to illustrate your answer.
Readings:
Week 1, 3, 5 and 6 readings and
Beck, Ulrich. “The Truth of Others: A Cosmopolitan Approach.” Common Knowledge 10, no. 3 (2004): 430-49.
Binnie, Jon. The Globalization of Sexuality. London: Sage Publications, 2004.
boyd, danah. “None of This Is Real: Identity and Participation in Friendster.” 1-24: University of California, Berkley, 2006.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Cruz-Malavé, Arnaldo, and Martin F. Manalansan IV, eds. Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Hage, G. ‘A not so multi-sited ethnography of a not so imagined community’, Anthropological Theory,Vol 5(4) 463-475.
Hannerz, Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places: Routledge, 1996.
Mathews, Gordon. “On the Meanings of Culture.” In Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket, edited by Gordon Mathews, 1-29. London: Routledge, 2000.
Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women. “Gender Mainstreaming: An Overview.” United Nations, 2002, 1-11.
Petchesky, Rosalind P. “Sexual Rights: Inventing a Concept, Mapping an International Practice.” In Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power, edited by Richard Parker, Regina Maria Barbosa and Peter Aggleton, 81-103. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Riley, Denise. “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category Of “Women” In History: Macmillan, 1988.
Simon, Bernd. Identity in Modern Society: A Social Psychological Perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 1-17.
Song, Miri. Choosing ethnic identity, Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2003.
Taylor, Tracy, “Cultural Diversity and Leisure: Experiences of Women in Australia”, Society and Leisure, 24: no.2, 2001, 535-555.
Tehranian, Majid. “Cultural Security and Global Governance: International migration And Negotiations of Identity.” In Worlds on the Move: Globalization, Migration, and Cultural Security, edited by Jonathan Friedman and Shalini Randeria, 3-22. London: I.B. Taurus, 2004.
Yeoh, Brenda S.A., Michael W. Charney, Tong Chee Kiong. (eds), Approaching transnationalisms : studies on transnational societies, multicultural contacts, and imaginings of home, Boston : Kluwer Academic, 2003.
Young, Crawford (ed), The accommodation of cultural diversity : case studies, Basingstoke : Macmillan Press in association with UNRISD, 1999.
2. To what extent does a ‘good global citizen’ have to be a ‘cosmopolitan’? Use case studies and examples from your readings to illustrate your answer.
Readings:
Week 1, 3 and 8 readings and
Beck, Ulrich. “The Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies”, Theory, culture & society, 2002; 19;17.
Beck, Ulrich. “The Truth of Others: A Cosmopolitan Approach.” Common Knowledge 10, no. 3 (2004): 430-49.
Bowden, Brett. “The Perils of Global Citizenship”, Citizenship studies, Volume 7, Issue 3 September 2003, pp. 349 – 362.
Calhoun, Craig. “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism”, The South Atlantic Quarterly 101:4 Fall 2002.
Carter, April. The political theory of global citizenship. New York : Routledge, 2001.
Chandler, David. “New Rights for Old? Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Critique of State Sovereignty”, Political Studies, 2003, 51 (2), 332–349.
Cheah, Pheng and Bruce Robbins(eds.).Cosmopolitics : thinking and feeling beyond the nation Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Dower, Nigel. “The Idea of Global Citizenship – A Sympathetic Assessment”, Global Society; October 2000; Volume 14 No. 4 pp.553 – 567. [http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/101/4/869.pdf]
Hutchings, Kimberly and Roland Dannreuther (eds). Cosmopolitan citizenship. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Mignolo Walter D. “The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism”, Public Culture 12(3): 721-748 (2000).
O’Byrne, Darren J. The dimensions of global citizenship : political identity beyond the nation-state. Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
Parekh, Bhikhu. “Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship” Review of International Studies (2003), 29: 3-17
Prakash, Aseem and Jeffrey A. Hart (eds.). Globalization and governance. London : Routledge, 1999.
Turner, Bryan S. “Cosmopolitan Virtue, Globalization and Patriotism” Theory, culture & society, 2002; 19; 45.
Tan, Kok-Chor, Justice without borders : cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and patriotism New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
3. To what extent can we really ‘know’ another culture? Use case studies and examples from your readings to illustrate your answer.
Readings:
Week 6 Readings and
Anderson, Kay. “Thinking “Postnationally”: Dialogue across Multicultural, Indigenous, and Settler Spaces.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, no. 2 (2000): 381-91.
Bery, Ashok and Patricia Murray, Comparing postcolonial literatures : dislocations, New York : Palgrave, 2000.
Collins, Felicity, and Therese Davis. “Lost, Stolen and Found in Rabbit-Proof Fence.” In Australian Cinema after Mabo, 133-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Gikandi, Simon. “Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 3 (2001): 627-58.
Hannerz, Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places: Routledge, 1996, 111-126.
Hymes, Dell, Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality : toward an understanding of voice, London ; Washington, DC : Taylor & Francis, 1995.
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. “I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Postcolonizing Society.” In Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, edited by Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castañeda, Anne-Marie Fortier and Mimi Sheller, 23-40. Oxford: Berg, 2003.
Reif- Hulser, Monika, Borderlands: Negotiating Boundaries in Post-Colonial Writing, Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1999.
Said, Edward W. Culture and imperialism, New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.
Said, Edward. “Resistance, Opposition and Representation.” In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, 95-98. London: Routledge, 2006.
Thieme John, The Arnold anthology of post-Colonial literatures in English, London ; New York : Arnold, 1996.
4. When visiting another culture, their traditions and culture should always be respected. Discuss.
Readings:
Week 4 and 9 Readings and
Abu-Lughod, Lila. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.” American Anthropologist 104, no. 3 (2002): 783-90.
Arthur, Linda B. “Religion, Dress and the Body.” In Religion, Dress and the Body, edited by Linda B. Arthur, 1-8. Oxford: Berg, 1999.
Arthur, Linda B. Religion, Dress and the Body, Oxford: Berg, 1999.
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Houghton Mifflin Books, 1989.
Beyer, Peter. “Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society.” In Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, edited by Michele Dillon, 45-60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Coleman, Simon, and Peter Collins, eds. Religion, Identity, and Change : Perspectives on Global Transformations. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Inglehart, R and WE Baker .“Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values”, American Sociological Review, February 2000, 65, 19-51.
Kurtz, Lester. Gods in the Global Village: The World’s Religions in Sociological Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1995.
Panitch, Leo, and Colin Leys, eds. Fighting Identities: Race, Religion & Ethno-Nationalism. London: Merlin, 2002.
Rothkrug, Lionel. Death, Trust and Society: Mapping Religion and Culture, Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, 2006.
Turiel E. and C. Wainryb, “Concepts of freedoms and rights in a traditional, hierarchically organized society”, British journal of developmental psychology, 1998, vol. 16 (3), pp. 375-395.
Weirz, Rose. “Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation.” Gender and Society 15, no. 5 (2001): 667-86.
5. Sport is the only global and universal activity we have. Discuss.
Readings:
Week 7 readings and
Associated Press. ‘Pride and politics mix after Rugby World Cup win over England’ in International Herald Tribune. 21 October 2007. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/21/sports/AF-SPT-RUGU-WCup-South-Africa-Reax.php
Back, L., T. Crabbe and J. Solomos, The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game, Oxford: Berg, 2001.
Bairner, Alan. Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization : European and North American Perspectives Albany State University of New York Press, 2001.
Brown, A. Fanatics! Power, Identity and Fandom in Football, London: Routledge, 1998.
Carrington, Ben. “Cosmopolitan Olympism, Humanism and the Spectacle of ‘Race’.” In Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century, edited by John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen, 81-96. Oxford: Berg, 2004.
Daucey H. and G. Hare (eds), France and the 1998 World Cup: the National Impact of a World Sporting Event, London: Frank Cass, 1999.
Fitzclarence, Lindsay, and Christopher Hickey. “Real Footballers Don’t Eat Quiche: Old Narratives in New Times.” Men and Masculinities 4, no. 2 (2001): 118-39.
Giardina, M. “Bend[ing] it like Beckham: Stylish Hybridity in Popular British Culture”, in Sporting Pedagogies: Performing Culture and Identity in the Global Arena, New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
Giulianotti, R. Football: A Sociology of the Global Game, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.
Maguire, J. Global Sport: Identities, Societies, Civilizations, Cambrdige: Polity Press, 1999.
Mcdonald, M. “Imagining Benevolence, Masculinity and Nation: Tragedy, Sport and the Transnational Marketplace” in M. Silk, D. Andrews and C. L. Cole (eds), Sport and Corporate Nationalisms, Oxford: Berg, 2005.
Miller, Toby, Geoffrey Lawrence, Jim McKay, and David Rowe. “The ‘G-Word’ Meets the ‘S-Word’.” In Globalization and Sport: Playing the World, 6-30. London: Sage, 2001.
‘Raffarin speaks against mixing politics with sport’: http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/journey/paris/news/n214297453.shtml
Smith, A. and A. Porter (eds), Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World, London: Routledge, 2004.
Swarns, R. ‘Rich, but not comfortable, in South Africa’s black elite’ in The New York Times. 2 August 2002.http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EFD71E3BF931A3575BC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
Wagg, S. (ed), Giving the Game Away: Football, Politics and Culture on Five Continents, London: Leicester University Press, 1995.
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