57116 Globalisations: Contestation and Formation

8cp
Graduate subject – Social Inquiry – 400 level

Globalisation is often presented as a predetermined inevitability. Globalising agents are seen as monolithic, their power unassailable, their juggernaut logic unstoppable. This subject in advanced globalisation questions the received wisdoms. Looking across contexts we find different globalisations, differently constituted. Reaching into history we find waves of globalisation, changing with time. Examining trajectories of globalisation we find contestations, shaping directions and practices. This subject explores the intellectual fields of globalisation theory, questioning logics of state and corporate power, debating global governance, global civil society, and global consumer culture. The constitution of cultural formations, definition of political practices, the forging of political communities, the articulation of social priorities, are all addressed. We rediscover globalisation as a dynamic process, challenged, infected, transformed and reproduced in multiple modes of contestation. We arrive at a dialectical understanding of globalisations: formations forged against and by contestation.

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Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus

Fee information

2007 contribution for post-2004 Commonwealth-supported students: $832.67
2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,760.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.167
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