• 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

Culture and the Adoption of Contrary Economic Policy

September 27, 2016 By tochaisuesomboon

The article Copyrighting Che overviews the causes, reasons, and results of the Cuban government allowing the free The Cuban government, in this border area of cultural economics, granted Cuban artists certain property rights regarding their intellectual labor that gave them an elite status compared to the average Cuban laborer. The economic impetus - the intellectual … [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...]

Cultural Imperialism: Get off Your High Horse Western Society

September 20, 2016 By josheperdsmith

This week's reading was one of those pieces that really make you consider your ego. What Ang's work (though her methodology was a little sketchy) really says to the Western world is get off your high horse. Western intellectuals  overstating the influence of western capitalist culture on the rest of the world shows that even among those who are concerned about the extent of … [Read more...]

CL: International Korean Pop Star & Symbol of Globalized Pop

September 20, 2016 By Violet Degnan

If you don't know who CL is, now you know. She's taking music, fashion, and culture by tsunami, and should she continue on her incredible upward trajectory, will be the first female Korean super pop star. BBC released an article 2 days ago noting that CL's new single, "Lifted," reached the "top 30 of iTunes' Hip-Hop/Rap chart within three hours of its release on Aug. 18." … [Read more...]

Oppa Gangnam Style: Korean Culture in the Age of Internet Culture

September 20, 2016 By tochaisuesomboon

Doobo Shim's article on the spread of Korean culture across East and Southeast Asia outlines many of the processes and explanations as to why Korean culture specifically became so pervasive among other cultures. The liberalization of media played a major role in directing Korean culture towards an outward expansion. They accepted the importation of American movies (under … [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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