Autumn 2002
Instructor: Mr IP Iam Chong
E-mail: [email protected]
/ [email protected]
URL: http://www.geocities.com/hegelchong/teaching_material/
Lecture: Time: Sat 10:30-12:20 Tutorials:
5 groups
Description
This course discusses the problems implicated in the wide variety of
discourses about globalization or global culture. It does not take “globalization” as a hard fact; instead, it
sees this concept as a threshold for us to perceive, conceive and change the
social world in new ways. Students
will explore the new domains conjured up by the recent debates about global
culture and globalization. They
are encouraged to establish dialogue between their own experiences and the new
phenomena and polemics outlined in this course. It aims at making some connections between students’ daily
life and the global issues.
Requirement
and Assessment
1. Tutorial (35%)
Each student is expected to frequently
express her/ his viewpoints, do field observation, collect information and make
brief presentation.
2. Group Project (35%)
You will form small teams of 4-6 students each to work on a project
titled as “A/ Some stories about “globalization””. You’re encouraged to write some interesting stories about
the relations between your daily life and some global issues. I will provide a list of topics for you
to choose. But you still can
choose other related topics after my approval. There are two stages for this project:
-Stage One (deadline 19/10): submit
your preliminary findings and no detailed analysis is required. I will give you my comments for your
reference.
-Stage Two (deadline 9/12): submit the final report that includes
description and analysis.
*You are required to put the stage-one
findings and the final report on the world-wide-web. Photos, animation, graphics and video can be used but are
not required.
3. Final Examination (30%): short
questions
Syllabus
Part
I: What is “Globalization”? What
is “Global Culture”? (14/9)
This part discusses how the discourses
about globalization emerge in last two decades. We will look at the debates about the myths and realities of
globalization. Then our discussion
shifts to the relations between our positioning and the so-called
“globalization”.
許寶強2002《資本主義不是甚麼》香港：牛津大學出版社。
Klein, Naomi.
2001. “A Web of Brands.” No Logo.
London: Flaming.
Friedman,
Thomas L. 2000《了解全球化 : 凌志汽車與橄欖樹》台北：聯經。
Hirst, Paul O. and Grahame Thompson.
1999. “Introduction:
Globalization- A Necessary Myth.” Globalization
in Question: the International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance.
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Kahn, Joel S. 1995. “A World System of
Culture?” in Culture, Multiculture,
Postculture. London: Sage
Publications.
Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. “Disjuncture
and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” In Modernity at Large: cultural dimensions of globalization.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, pp. 27-47.
Barber, Benjamin. 1995. Jihad vs. McWorld. New York : Times
Books.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2000.
Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press.
Part
II: Commodity cultures (28/9)
Capitalism situates commodities in our
lives through more sophisticated channels that blend our consumption with
cultural identity, sense of place and imaginations more actively than
before. This part selects two case
studies to illustrate the important features of the contemporary commodity
cultures.
Watson, James L. 1997. “McDonald’s in
Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change and the Rise of a Children’s Culture.”
In Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East
Asia. Standford: Standford UP, pp. 77-109.
Wasko, Janet, Mark Phillipsand Eileen
R. Meehan. 2001. Dazzled by Disney? : the
global Disney audiences project. London: Leicester UP.
Pendergrast, Mark. 《咖啡萬歲：小咖啡如何改變大世界》台北：聯經。
＜超級市場，超級壟斷＞（全球化監察2002.7, http://globalmon.uhome.net/）
Part
III: WTO (5/10)
WTO is one of the important issues
around the world. Its doctrine of
“free trade” initiates the vision or myth of global prosperity and the anti-WTO
or anti-globalization protests.
The emergence of WTO is both a global economic institutions and
cultural/ ideological landscape.
Readings:
＜中國入世專輯＞（全球化監察2002.2, http://globalmon.uhome.net/）
The basic information about the history
of WTO
http://www.canschool.org/economy/wto/wto1-e.asp
林志良1999＜世界各地反對全球化浪潮＞《全球化監察》1999年9月。
Part
IV: Environment: genetic war (12/10)
Genetic technology is the most important development of science over
the world. The spread of GMO
(genetically modified organism) not merely the “progress” of human knowledge
but also creates tremendous impact upon people’s livelihood and
environment. The case of GMO is a
typical example showing the corporate power and its relation to natural
environment.
Readings
Greenpeace China’s information about GMO (genetically modified
organism)
http://www.greenpeace-china.org.hk/chi/gm_article.adp?category=gm&subcategory=press
新世紀的圈地運動
http://www.greenpeace-china.org.hk/chi/document/pol-bg5.pdf
Part
V: Diaspora (19/10)
The discussions
about diaspora lead us to re-examine the fiction of national boundary and
people’s practices in exile and migration.
Brah, Avtar. 1996.
“Diaspora, border and transnational identities.” In Cartography of diaspora : contesting identities. London: Routledge:
178-210.
爭取港人居港權聯盟1999《七九．九七．167：羅湖關外的港人兒女》香港：街角。
Part
VI: Work, Gender and Poverty (26/10)
Globalization means different for
different classes and sexes. More
and more people work in the so-called “flexible production regime” and they,
especially women, fail to earn stable wage to support their families. These social changes create a lot of
pressure on the lower class’ work, family and community, and also cause a wide
variety of responses from the grassroots.
Readings:
Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration
and Domestic Work. Standford: Standford UP.
Carnoy, Martin. 2000. Sustaining the New Economy: work, family,
and community in the information age. NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
勞資關係協進會編2002《香港邊緣勞工口述》香港：勞協。
迪帕．納拉揚2001《誰傾聽我們的聲音》北京：中國人民大學出版社。（原書為：Can
Anyone Hear Us?）
Part
VII: Subcultures: drug and rave party (2/11)
The expanding flows of media network,
capital, human and information enable people to develop more and more different
subcultures rather than create a homogenous global culture. Rave culture is one of the examples.
Gore, Georgiana. 1997. “The Beat Goes
on: Trance, Dance and Tribalism in Rave Culture.” In Dance in the City. NY: St Martin’s Press.
Redhead, Steve. 1993. Rave off: politics and deviance in
contemporary youth culture. Aldershot: Brookfield.
Choi, Rob. 2000. Pearl Report: Rave. Hong Kong: TVB News Public Affairs Production.
(LTV 300 PEAR 2000 )
Part
VIII: Media (9/11)
Although, the further expansion of
media networks does not bring us a global village, it triggers off more
opportunities for local resistance rather than keep under control all
communication possibilities. The
media empires live in an unstable world perpetually shattered by the noises
from the local.
Thompson, Kenneth ed. 1997. Media and cultural regulation. London:
Sage Publications.
Thussu, Daya Kishan ed. 1998. Electronic empires: global media and local
resistance. London: Arnold.
Hyun, Daiwon. 2001. “Renaissance of
Korean Film Industry.” Asian Cinema.
Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall/ Winter): 8-19.
《花樣年華》（2001王家衛）(
AVF 987.83 4484 2000 vd1, vd2
)
《細路祥》（1999陳果）(
AVE 987.83 2632 vd1, vd2 )
《香港製造》（2000陳果）(AVE
987.83 2323 vd1, vd2)
《我的野蠻女友》（2002郭在容）（AVE 987.83 2262 2002 vd.1，vd2）
Part
IX: New Technology, New Culture (16/11)
This new age is characterized by a sort
of techno-mania, an obsession of information technology and a stubborn belief
in the omnipotence of new technologies.
This part focuses on the ideological and social impacts of new
technology, and its subversive potentials.
陳豐偉2000《網絡不斷革命論》台北：商業周刊。
Weber, Steven. 2000. “The Political
Economy of Open Source Software.” E-conomy
Project Working Paper 15 (http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/publications/wp/wp140.pdf)
Wellman, Barry and Milena Gulia. 1999.
“Net-Surfers Don’t Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities.” In Networks in the global Village: Life in
ontemporary communities. Boulder: Westview Press.
Schon, Donald A. and Bish Sanyal and
William J. Mitchell. 1999. High technology
and low-income communities: prospects for the positive use of advanced
information technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Part
X: Urban Culture and Urban Space (23/11)
City is no longer
defined by its autonomous culture or a specific way of life. The penetration of capital and human
flows shatters the urban order.
Yet, urban space is not totally monopolized by the dominant class and
remains a contested site for struggle, performance and communication.
Castells, Manuel.
"The Culture of Cities in the Information Age (1999)." The Castells Reader on Cities and Social
Theory. Ed. Ida Susser. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Rendell,
Jane, and Barbara Penner, Iain Borden 2000. Gender
Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, London: Routledge.
(Prologue: Lesslie Kanes Weisman’s “Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto”,
pp.1-5.)
Zukin,
Sharon 1995. The Cultures of Cities,
Oxford: Blackwell.
[videorecording]Sex and the City
Part
XI: Citizenship in the “global age” (30/11, 7/12)
Citizenship is a concept developed from
the western civil tradition which confines to a city-state or a
nation-state. Now the wide range
of issues transgressing the regional and national boundary lead us to reflect
upon our understanding of citizenship.
Klein, Naomi. 2001. No Logo. London: Flaming.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2000.
Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press.