070585 PK Project Course Global History (2010S)

The course is an exploration of the current juncture at the end of
globalization. It will briefly explore the historical continuity of
colonialism-development-globalization, move to a discussion of
theories of the current crisis and survey possible futures created by
actors rooted in different social movements.

Preliminary Reading List(will be updated and assigned on first day of
class) :

Crisis

Illich, Ivan. tools for conviviality (excerpts)
Midnight Notes Collective.2009. Promissory notes; From Crisis to Commons. http://www.midnightnotes.org/mnpubarticles.html

Rist, Gilbert. 2009. History of Development: From Western Origins to
Global Faith. Zed books. (excerpts)

Sachs, Wolfgang. 2010 The development dictionary. Zed books. (excerpts)
Wallerstein, Immanuel. An Introduction to World Systems analysis. Duke University Press(excerpts)

Actors

Appadurai, Arjun. 2006. Fear of small numbers. Duke University
Press. (excerpts)
De Sousa Santos. Boaventura. 2006. The Rise of the Global Left: The
World Social Forum and Beyond. Zed Books.(excerpts) EZLN: Sixth declaration from the Lacandon jungle.
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/auto/selva6.html
Hardt, Michael and Toni Negri. 2005. Multitude. Penguin Press. (excerpts)
Harvey, David. 2007. A brief history of Neoliberalism. Oxford
University Press. (excerpts)
The Invisible Committe. 2009. The coming insurrection. Semiotext(e)

Future

Bauman, Zygmunt. 2010. Liquid Times: Living in an age of uncertainty.
Polity Press.
Esteva, Gustavo. 1998. Grassroots postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of
Cultures. Zed Books. (excerpts)
Gibson-Graham. 2006. A Post-capitalist Politics. University of
Minnesota Press. ( excerpts)
Sen, Jai and Peter Waterman(eds.) Challenging Empires. Black Rose Books.
Ulrich Brand and Nicola Sekler. 2009. Postneoliberalism : catch-all
word or valuable analytical and political concept? �Aims of a
beginning debate. Development Dialogue 2009:No.51, January