CANTH 3301 Global Lives in a Transnational Age
This course considers how individuals, communities, and nations are transformed by experiences of globalization and migration. The term “globalization” is increasingly used in academics, politics, and popular culture, and involves the flows of actors, capital, information, technologies, and products across regional and national borders. The goal of this course is to take an ethnographic approach to globalization and transnationalism; that is, to understand the impact of global processes on local communities and how these processes have meaning in people’s everyday lives. Course materials trace processes and politics of global production and consumption as well as the lived experiences of migrants to examine the ways in which communities and identities are shaped both within and across national borders. We will focus on the cultural politics of race, nation, citizenship, gender, and place as a means to interrogate social inequality as the lives of people around the world become increasingly interconnected.
Prerequisite
ONE CSOCL, CSOCS, OR CANTH COURSE
Offered
Fall