Globalization
and Development
GDS 395-01 –
Spring 2003
Lecture: T/TH: 2:15-4:05 Instructor: Monty
Roper
Goodnow Hall Rm 105 305
Goodnow Hall
e-mail: roperjm@grinnell.edu
Office Hours: M & W
9-11; Tu & F 10-12. During office hours, you are
welcome to stop by without an appointment.
I will also be happy to schedule appointments during non-office
hours. I am happy to communicate by
phone or e-mail. I check my e-mail
regularly, though you should not assume that I have received your message until
you receive a confirmation from me.
Course
Description and Goals
Globalization
and Development are incredibly broad topics.
We are focusing on only a handful of issues and topics in this
class. Our primary concern is with
development in so-called “third world” (underdeveloped, developing, etc.)
countries. We will pay particular
attention to how development takes place and is experienced at the local level,
by real people. More specifically, the
class is intended to address how globalization is related to such
development. While “globalization” is
probably an overused and somewhat contentious term, we will focus on two main
processes that most scholars would agree are closely tied to diverse conceptions
of development. This includes a
consideration of how directed international development aid – a primary process
in economic globalization – by the first world and bilateral institutions
(World Bank, etc.) takes place and is affecting rural peoples. Secondly, the course will address more
generally how the globalization of the world capitalist system, especially
through the rise and expansion of transnational corporations is impacting on
the third world and its role in “development”.
In
order to consider these issues, we must address the topic through both micro
and macro levels of analysis. In other
words, while our primary concern may be with local rural peoples, we must also
seek to understand the globalization process that affects them. This includes first world conceptions of development
as well as a consideration of the dynamics of major
economic institutions, the role of nation states, and the actions of
international political and social organizations. We must be able to understand how these
levels of analysis operate individually and the linkages between the micro and
macro levels. As such, the course is
necessarily interdisciplinary in nature and will draw on theory and literature
from a range of social sciences, including political science, international
political economy, economics, sociology, and anthropology.
This class is a senior seminar. It is YOUR senior seminar. I am here to help provide you with a set of
readings to stimulate discussion and to serve as a kind of in-class moderator. I will very occasionally lecture. You should think of this as a structured
reading group. Your responsibility is to
come to class prepared to discuss the readings, raise questions, argue for or
against certain positions, and stimulate one-another to come up with fresh
ideas. You should be able to build on
past readings in your consideration of topics as well as bring in your own
experiences. Many of you have also done
internships, taken other relevant classes, and traveled to “third world”
countries, and you should bring these experiences to the discussion. It is your responsibility just as much as it
is mine to make this class work.
Everyone should feel free to participate openly in class. There are no taboo ideas or subjects, even if
they may be labeled un-PC outside of the class.
The classroom is a forum for open discussion and debate. Everyone should help to support an atmosphere
where diverging and conflicting ideas from within the class can be heard and
considered. There are few “right”
answers or theories concerning the material that we are discussing. As we will see, educated academics disagree
on many of the underlying assumptions of development and globalization issues,
not to mention more specific hot topics.
My goal in this course is not to dish out a set of facts to you, but to
provide you with various perspectives (including my own at times) on
globalization and development and stimulate open discussion and debate on
complex issues and processes.
Required
Texts:
1. J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite 2000 From Modernization
to Globalization: Perspectives on
Development and Social Change.
Blackwell Publishers.
2. Arturo Escobar 1995
Encountering Development: The
Making and Unmaking of the
3. David C. Korten 1996
When Corporations Rule the World. Kumarian Press
4. Marc Edelman 1999
Peasants Against Globalization:
Rural Social Movements in
5. Luiz C. Barbosa 2000
The Brazilian Amazon
Rainforest: Global Ecopolitics,
Development and Democracy.
University Press of
6. Recommended: F. Lechner and
J. Boli (eds) 2000 The
Globalization Reader. Blackwell
Publishers.
Reserved
Copies
of “reserved readings” and “additional materials” will be available in the
student project room on the 3rd floor of Goodnow Hall. I will provide links to materials available
on-line. More readings will be available
than will be required.
1.
Daily reading notes: (10%) Students are required to turn a total of 20 1-2 page responses
to the readings. This might include a
summary of the readings, ideas or questions raised during the readings, a
response to the argument of the various authors, quotes or data that you found
particularly useful or interesting, etc.
The only required element to these papers are that you include at least
a brief consideration of how the articles relate or might be useful (or not
useful) to your own primary interests and/or your final paper. Also, you must include at least 2 questions
at the end. (Note: if you take good
notes on the readings as we go, your exams will practically be written.)
2.
Debates: (2 at 15% each – 30% total) We will have
three structured policy debates in this class.
Each student will participate in two of these. The topics and nature of the debates will be
decided upon in class.
3.
Final Paper (30%) Each of you will write
a final paper on a topic that you will choose in consultation with me. You will be required to decide on your topic
early in course, and meet with me several times to discuss the evolution of
your paper.
4.
Participation: (30%) (See discussion of
participation in course description and goals above.)
5.
Attendance: Attendance is required. Students will loose 1% off their final grade
for each unexcused absence. Any exam or
in-class assignment that is missed because of an unexcused absence will receive
a zero. Excused absences include illness
(substantiated by visit to health center or hospital), death in the family, or
prior approval of instructor.
Preliminary
Course Outline and
Jan 21: Course Overview: The goals and nature of this course
I.A. The
Nature of Development
Jan 23: What is
“Development”, and is it Really Necessary?
Required
·
United Nations Development Program (2000). Human Development Report
2000: Human Rights and Human Development.
·
Gerald M. Meier
1995 Leading Issues in
Economic Development.
·
Jan Knippers Black. 1999 Development
in Theory and Practice: Paradigms and Paradoxes. Westview Press. Read Ch.2 Defining Development and its
Nemesis. Pp: 15-22.
·
Vijayan K. Pillai and Lyle W. Shannon (eds.) 1995
Developing Areas: A Book of
Jan 28: Theories of Development, Underdevelopment and
Social Change I: Formative Ideas
·
From Modernization to
Globalization
reader Introduction.
·
From Modernization to
Globalization
reader Part I: “Formative Ideas on the Transition to Modern Society.”
·
K. Marx and F. Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and
Alienated Labor (1844)
·
E. Durkheim.
The Division of Labor in Society (1893)
·
M. Weber.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism (1905); The Characteristics of Bureaucracy (1920);
and Science as a Vocation (1919)
Jan 30: Theories of Development, Underdevelopment and Social change II: Modernization and the roots of the “development project”
·
Modernization to
Globalization
Reader Part II: “How Does Development Change People? Modernization Theories and the Intellectual
Roots of the Development Project.”
·
T. Parsons.
Evolutionary Universals in Society (1964)
·
W.W. Rostow.
The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Comunist
Manifesto (1960)
·
O. Lewis.
A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La
Vida (1968)
·
D. Lerner.
The Passing of Traditional Society
(1958)
·
A. Inkeles.
Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change
in Six Developing Countries (1969)
·
Feb 4: Theories of
Development, Underdevelopment and Social change III: Dependency
and World Systems.
·
Part III: “Blaming the Victim?
Dependency and World-Systems Theories Respond.”
·
A.G. Frank. The Development of Underdevelopment (1969)
·
F.H. Cardoso. Dependency and
Development in
·
A. de Janvry and C. Garramón.
The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in
·
I. Wallerstein. The Rise and
Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis
(1979)
·
C. Chase-Dunn. The Effects of
International Economic Dependence on Development and Inequality: A
Cross-National Study (1975)
·
G. Gereffi. Rethinking
Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and
Feb 6: Theories of Development, Underdevelopment and Social change III: The State and
Neoliberal
Assumptions
·
Robert H. Bates
1993 “Governments and
Agricultural Markets in
·
Michael Lipton
1993 “Urban Bias and
Inequality.” In M. Seligson and J. Passé-Smith (eds.), Development &
Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Inequality. Pp:371-376.
·
Larry Sirowy and Alex Inkeles 1993 “The Effects of Democracy on
Economic Growth and Inequality.” In M.
Seligson and J. Passé-Smith (eds.), Development & Underdevelopment: The
Political Economy of Inequality. Pp:389-405.
I.B. The
Nature of Globalization
Feb 11: What is Globalization?
·
9. E.J. Bobsbawn. The World Unified
·
11. Leslie Sklair. Sociology of the Global System
·
12. Saskia Sassen. Whose City is it? Globalization and the Formation of New
Claims.
·
13. Robert Keohane and Joseph
Nye. Realism and Complex
Interdependence.
·
14. J. Meyer et al. World Society and the Nation-State
·
15. Roland Robertson and JaAnn
Chirico. Humanity, Globalization, and
Worldwide Religious Resurgence.
·
16. Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Globalization as Hybridization.
Feb 13: Experiencing Globalization
·
17. Pico Iyer. Bali: On Prospero’s Isle/The
·
18. Martin Albrow. Travelling Beyond Local Cultures
·
19. Bruce Fuller.
·
20. David Harvey. Time-Space Compression and the Rise of
Modernism as a Cultural Force.
Feb
18: Globalization, Good or Bad?
·
Martin Wolf. Why this Hatred
of the Market?
·
Peter Martin. The Moral Case
for Globalization.
·
Bernard Cassen. To Save
Society.
·
Serge Halimi. When Market
Journalism Invades the World.
·
Benjamin Barber. Jihad vs.
McWorld.
·
Samuel P. Huntington. The
Clash of Civilizations.
·
Josua Karliner. Grassroots
Globalization: Reclaiming the Blue Planet.
·
Hans Kung. A Global Ethic as
a Foundation for Global Society.
Part II:
The Engine of Modern Global “Development”: Development Aid and
Capitalism
Feb 20, 25, 27: Development Aid
·
Arturo Escobar. Encountering
Development: The Making and Unmaking of the
·
Website review: World bank http://www.worldbank.org, IMF websites Http://www.imf.org, United Nations (http://www.un.org), World Trade Organization (http://www.wto.org)
Additional
Materials:
·
Jan Bennett “Aid:
The Poisoned Gift?”
·
Website review: 50 Years is Enough Organization Website http://50years.org/ (critiques of the Bretton
Woods Institutions)
·
World Trade Organization 2000
“Seven Common Misunderstandings about the WTO.” In, F. Lechner and J.
Boli (eds.), The Globalization Reader.
·
C. Roe Goddard and Melissa H. Birch 1996
“The International Monetary Fund.”
In C.R. Goddard, J.T. Passé-Smith, and J.G. Conklin (eds.),
International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in the Changing Global
Order.
·
Manuel Pastor, Jr. 1996 “The Effects of
IMF Programs in the Third World: Debate and Evidence From
·
Bruce Rich
1996 “World Bank/IMF: 50
Years is Enough.” In C.R. Goddard, J.T. Passé-Smith, and J.G. Conklin (eds.),
International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in the Changing Global
Order.
·
Hilary French
1994 “Rebuilding the World
Bank.” In, State of the World 1994: A
Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. NY: W.W. Norton & Company. Pp:156-176.
March 4
Development Aid Debate (Ann,
March 6: Visit by Werner Fornos of the Population
Institute
·
Review
Escobar’s ideas on population
·
Norman Myers
and Julian Simon 1994 Scarcity or Abundance: A Debate on the
Environment. Ch.2. Simon: Population
Growth is Not Bad for Humanity; and Ch3 Myers: The Population Factor.
·
State of the
World 2002. Chapter 6. B. Engelman, B.
Halweil and D. Nierenberg. “Rethinking
Population, Improving Lives”
·
G. Daily and P. Ehrlich, “Population, Sustainability, and Earth’s
Carrying Capacity”
·
R. Ridker, “Population Issue”
(March
4-10: Film Viewing. Commanding
Heights. The
March 10, 13, April 1: Corporations, Capitalism and Development
·
Korten, When Corporations Rule
the World
·
NGO Taskforce on Business & Industry 1997
“Minding Our Business: The Role
of Corporate Accountability in Sustainable Development.”
·
Rhys Jenkins
1996 “Theoretical
Perspectives on the Transnational Corporation.” In C.R. Goddard, J.T.
Passé-Smith, and J.G. Conklin (eds.), International Political Economy:
State-Market Relations in the Changing Global Order.
Film: Commanding Heights: The
Additional
Materials:
· From Modernization to
Globalization Reader:
·
F. Frobel, J. Heinrichs, and O. Kreye. The New International
Division of Labor in the World Economy (1980)
·
P. McMichael. Globalization:
Myths and Realities (1996)
·
D.
·
Dani Rodrik. Has
Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997)
·
From The Globalization Reader: Part IV. Economic Globalization
·
William Greider. Wawasan 2020
·
Miguel Korzeniewicz
2000 “Commodity Chains and
Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry.”
·
Ted C. Fishman
2000 “The Joys of Global
Investment.”
·
Amnesty International 2000 “AI on Human Rights and Labor Rights.”
In, F. Lechner and J. Boli (eds.), The Globalization
Reader.
·
Film: Hungry For Profit
(Spring Break 3/14 – 3/30)
Part III: Culture and Globalization
·
Globalization Reader. Chapters
TBA
(Likely
will look at some material on Globalization, Indigenous Peoples and the
Environmental Movement)
April 15: Debate on Globalization and Culture (Courtney, Ann, Sam, Mayra)
·
Part IV: Case Studies and Responses to Globalization
April 17: Globalization and Women
·
Review Escobar on Women.
·
The Globalization Reader #24.
·
From Modernization to Globalization Reader #20.
Kathryn Ward and Jean Larson Pyle.
Gender, Industrialization, Transnational Corporations and Development:
An Overview of Trends and Patterns
·
Victoria Lockwood, “The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay
of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology”.
(In Brettell and Sargent, Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective)
April 22, 24: Case Study: Brazilian Amazon
·
Barbosa, The Brazilian Amazon
April
29, May1, 6: Social Movements (Case
Study:
§
Edelman, Peasants Against Globalization
·
Reader Ch 22 “Social Movements and Global Capitalism”
·
Roper et al.
“Introduction: Indigenous Transformational Movements in
Additional
Materials
·
The Globalization Reader:
·
John Tomlinson. “Cultural
Imperialism.”
·
Ulf Hannerz. “Scenarios for
Peripheral Cultures.”
·
Frank Lechner. “Global
Fundamentalism.”
·
The Globalization Reader Part IX:
Changing World Society:
Environmentalism and the Globalization of Social Problems.
May 8: Wrap up and
discussion of research papers.