• Syllabus
  • Handouts
    • Writing for the Web
    • Using WordPress
    • Proposal Handout
    • Group Case Study Handout
    • Inforgaphic 411
  • Schedule
  • Case Studies
    • Old Case Studies
  • Topics
    • Political Globalization
    • Economic Globalization
    • Religion and Globalization
    • Experiencing Globalization
    • Environment
    • Global People
    • Global Things
    • Popular Culture
    • Resisting Globalization
  • About the Course
    • Fuji Lozada
    • Moodle (need password)
    • Case Study Guide

Globalization Seminar @ Davidson

Musings from Wildcats

The Politics of Instagram Use in Taiwan

December 7, 2016 By ingupta

*** Image 1 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 2 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 3 Source: Carol Lan, @carolbluelan For more on: visual rhetoric Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Lee, Eunji, Jung-Ah Lee, Jang Ho Moon, … [Read more...]

Trump, TPP, and Globalization

November 14, 2016 By ingupta

For next class, Courtney, Evans, and I will be leading a discussion on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), as well as how Donald Trump’s opposition to the TPP is embedded in a broader anti-trade sentiment and his “America First” foreign policy. Please read the four attached articles and come prepared to discuss what a Trump presidency means for globalization:  Globalization … [Read more...]

Sid Sriram: “A cocktail of Indian and Western influences”

October 4, 2016 By ingupta

Sid Sriram is an American-Indian jazz and blues artist. At the age of three, he began learning Carnatic music from his mother at her institution in San Francisco, then trained under Padmabushan Sri PS Narayanaswamy in 2002. In 2008, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and honed in on R&B, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel music. The Fader praises Sriram’s ability to … [Read more...]

Social Activism, Technology, and the Generation Gap

September 27, 2016 By ingupta

Jeffery S. Juris' "The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements" discusses a lot of what I already know: new digital technologies are being used to build networks, practice media activism, and physically manifest their emerging political ideals. These new platforms have much power and potential for growth, and have not been taken … [Read more...]

French Cinema: Resistance of Americana Hegemony

September 19, 2016 By ingupta

Daya Kushan Thussu's "Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra-Flow" article primarily focuses on the US-led Western media flow as opposed to the "subaltern flow" of content from the global South to the North. Although French media is unambiguously Western, its film industry offers a unique case study of state-sponsored resistance of Americana hegemony. In 1989, the European … [Read more...]

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ANT 341 examines recent theories of globalization from an anthropological perspective, with an emphasis on the transnational political, economic, and cultural structures that are transforming local societies throughout the world. Topics include transnational religions, popular culture, and global capitalism. Special attention is devoted to debates regarding power and cultural imperialism, popular culture, the impact of science and technology transfer, and diaspora ethnicity.


Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. is a Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. more...
Fall 2016 Office Hours:
MWF 9:30-10:30am
TR 9:00-10:00am

office: Chambers B12
tel. 704-894-2035
erlozada [at] davidson.edu

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