• 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

Yes Men: Irreverence and Performance Art for Combatting Global Corporations

October 4, 2016 By Violet Degnan

In Chapter 73, Vandana Shiva discusses how developed countries export toxic waste to less developed countries since it has become economically cheaper to ship the waste than pay fees within the home country to properly dispose of it. 2,000 tons of hazardous wastes were being "generated every day in India without adequate safe disposal sites," at the time Shiva wrote the … [Read more...]

Globalization’s Destruction of Small Farms: Monsanto and India

October 4, 2016 By ropolanco

In response to "Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization" by Vandana Shiva.  To Shiva, " [the] seed is the first link in the food chain. It is also the first step toward freedom in food" (507). Globalization has given way to corporations such as Monsanto, who have made seeding into an monopolized industry and have put small scale farming at risk all around the world. … [Read more...]

Digital Media Activism: Anonymous

September 27, 2016 By ropolanco

Responding to "The New Digital Media  an Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements" by Jeffrey Juris In his piece on digital media activism, Jeffrey Juris makes three points about anti-corporate globalization movements and their use of digital media networks: Movement networks are locally rooted, but global in scope. Anti-corporate … [Read more...]

Why Charlotte Burned: What’s Really Going On in the Queen City

September 24, 2016 By josheperdsmith

Why Charlotte Burned: What’s Really Going On in Charlotte “If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it even make a sound? Better yet, if a man is being burned alive and no one interjects, was he ever even a man?" The city of Charlotte was burning long before media reported on the “riots” of this week. While CNN and government debate the … [Read more...]

Why Slumdog Millionaire wasn’t popular in India

September 20, 2016 By anbrockett

"In the same year that Jurassic Park grossed $6 million, Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! grossed $60 million," (Terrell 376). In Bollywood versus Hollywood, Heather Tyrrell situates Bollywood against Hollywood in order to explain western cinema's inability to monopolize the cinematic market in India. For starters, Bollywood actively offers popular anti colonialist sentiments because it … [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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