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GLST 651: Critical Approaches to Global Change Report a Broken Link

This course offers an overview of some approaches to studying global change, as well as opportunities to dig deeply into areas of interest to enable students to see some of the breadth of work in this large field of study.

Week 1

DiAngelo, R., & Sensoy, O. (2014). Leaning in: A student’s guide to engaging constructively with social justice content. Radical Pedagogy, 11(1), 1–15.

Week 2

Richards, P. (2014). Decolonizing globalization studies. The Global South, 8(2), 139–154.
Antipodeonline. (2020, June 1). Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore [Video]. YouTube.
Gordon, N. (Host). (2021, November 4). Anthea Roberts and Nicholas Lamp, “The six faces of globalization” [Audio podcast episode]. In The Asian Review of Books.

Week 3

Nagar, R., Lawson, V., McDowell, L., & Hanson, S. (2002). Locating globalization: Feminist (re)readings of the subjects and spaces of globalization. Economic Geography, 78(3), 257–284.
Lentin, A. (2017, February 10). Decolonising epistemologies. alanalentin.net.

Week 4

Smith, G. M. (2001). “It’s just a movie”: A teaching essay for introductory media classes. Cinema Journal, 41(1), 127–134. 
Sierra, F. B. (dir.). 2018. Nae Pasaran [Film]. Debasers Filums streamed with permission from Debasers Filums. 

Week 5

Robinson, W. I. (2019). Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: Beyond the Trump hype. Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183.
Bledsoe, A., McCreary, T., & Wright, W. (2022). Theorizing diverse economies in the context of racial capitalism. Geoforum, 132, 281–290.
Roy, A. (Host). (2023, January 21). Karyne E. Messina, “Resurgence of global populism: A psychoanalytic study of projective identification, blame-shifting and the corruption of democracy” [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Psychoanalysis.

Week 6

Bjork-James, C., Checker, M., & Edelman, M. (2022). Transnational social movements: Environmentalist, Indigenous, and agrarian visions for planetary futures. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47, 583–608. 
McKeon, N., & Berron, G. (2020). Introduction to “Reclaiming democracy from below: From the contemporary state capitalist system to peoples’ sovereignty.” Globalizations, 17(7), 1241–1264.

Week 7

Mezzadri, A. (2016). Class, gender and the sweatshop: On the nexus between labour commodification and exploitation. Third World Quarterly, 37(10), 1877–1900.
Wright, M. W. (2003). Factory daughters and Chinese modernity: A case from Dongguan. Geoforum, 34(3), 291–301.
Walia, H. (2021). Introduction. In Border and rule: Global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism (pp. 1–15). Fernwood Publishing.
Walia, H. (2021). Chapter 4: Bordering regimes. In Border and rule: Global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism (pp. 77–92). Fernwood Publishing.
Cohen, A. (2019). “Slavery hasn’t ended, it has just become modernized”: Border imperialism and the lived realities of migrant farmworkers in British Columbia, Canada. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 18(1), 130–148.
White, S. (2002). Thinking race, thinking development. Third World Quarterly, 23(3), 407–419.
Sultana, F. (2019). Decolonizing development education and the pursuit of social justice. Human Geography, 12(3), 31–46.
Soldatic, K., & Grech, S. (2014). Transnationalising disability studies: Rights, justice and impairment. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(2).
McRuer, R. (2010). Disability nationalism in crip times. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 163–178.
Nirmal, P., & Rocheleau, D. (2019). Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence: Questions, experiences, and proposals from two Indigenous territories. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(3), 465–492.
Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending damage: A letter to communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409–428.

Monograph

Lowe, L. (2015). The intimacies of four continents. Duke University Press.