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POEC 483: Political Economy of Globalization (Rev. C7) Report a Broken Link

POEC / GLST / INTR 483: Political Economy of Globalization is a senior-level, three-credit course in international political economy that introduces the highly contested issues and contradictory positions concerning the meaning and significance of globalization. Through a theoretical and descriptive approach, the course focuses on the evolution of post-Second World War global power relations and the political and economic institutions that have brought us to the present era of globalization

Unit 1: IPE, Globalization, and You

Persaud, Randolf. 2023. “International and Global Political Economy.” In Critical Concepts, 6th ed., edited by Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and Malinda Smith, 303–316. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Martin, Ron, Peter Tyler, Michael Storper, Emil Evenhuis, and Amy Glasmeier. 2018. “Globalization at a Critical Conjuncture?” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11 (1): 3–16. https://doi.org /10.1093/cjres/rsy002.
Scheuerman, William. 2023. “Globalization.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Spring 2023 ed., edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/globalization.
Hershey, Robert Alan. 2019. “‘Paradigm Wars’ Revisited: New Eyes on Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization.” Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance 5: 43–116. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48671864.

Unit 2: Historical and Contemporary Patterns in International Economic Institutions: Land and Housing

Bhambra, Gurminder K. 2021. “Colonial Global Economy: Towards A Theoretical Reorientation of Political Economy.” Review of International Political Economy 28 (2): 307–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1830831.
Li, Tania Murray. 2014. “What is Land? Assembling a Resource for Global Investment.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39 (4): 589–602. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12065.
Aalbers, Manuel B., Raquel Rolnik, & Marieke Krijnen. 2020. "The Financialization of Housing in Capitalism’s Peripheries." Housing Policy Debate 30 (4): 481–485. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2020.1783812.
Hawley, Josh. 2022. “Financialization.” In Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes, Vol. 1, edited by Patricia Ballamingie and David Szanto. Ottawa: Showing Theory Press. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/showingtheory/chapter/financialization.
Howard-Wagner, Deirdre, Maria Bargh, and Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez. 2018. “From New Paternalism to New Imaginings of Possibilities in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa / New Zealand: Indigenous Rights and Recognition and the State in the Neoliberal Age.” In The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights: New Paternalism to New Imaginings, edited by Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Maria Bargh and Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, 1–40. Acton, Australia Australian National University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5cgbkm.8.

Unit 3: International Trade, Technology, and Food

Izurieta, Alex, Pierre Kohler, and Juan Pizarro. 2018, September. Financialization, Trade, and Investment Agreements: Through the Looking Glass or Through the Realities of Income Distribution and Government Policy? Global Development and Environment Institute Working Paper no. 18-02. Medford, MA: Tufts University. https://escueladeverano.cepal.org/2019/sites/default/files/18-02_izurietakohlerpizarro_financializationtradeinvestmentagreements.pdf.
Clapp, Jennifer, and S. Ryan Isakson. 2018. “Risky Returns: The Implications of Financialization in the Food System." Development and Change 49 (2): 437–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12376.
Ortiz, Andrea Monica D., Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Carole Dalin, and Tim Newbold. 2021. “A Review of the Interactions between Biodiversity, Agriculture, Climate Change, and International Trade: Research and Policy Priorities.” One Earth 4 (1): 88–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.12.008.
Botreau, Hélène, and Marc J. Cohen. 2019, July. Gender Inequalities and Food Insecurity: Ten Years After the Food Price Crisis, Why are Women Farmers Still Food-Insecure? Oxford, UK: Oxfam. https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/gender-inequalities-and-food-insecurity-ten-years-after-the-food-price-crisis-w-620841.
Levkoe, Charles Z. 2022. “Governance.” In Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes, Vol. 1, edited by Patricia Ballamingie and David Szanto. Ottawa: Showing Theory Press. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/showingtheory/chapter/governance.

Unit 4: Governance: Changing Relationships of States, Corporations, and Work

Shrivastava, Meenal. 2023. “International Orders.” In Critical Concepts, 6th ed., edited by Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and Malinda Smith, 288–302. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Borras, Saturnino M., Jr., Elyse N. Mills, Philip Seufert, Stephan Backes, Daniel Fyfe, Roman Herre, and Laura Michéle. 2020. “Transnational Land Investment Web: Land Grabs, TNCs, and the Challenge of Global Governance.” Globalizations 17 (4): 608–628. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1669384.
Vallas, Steven, and Juliet B. Schor. 2020. “What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy.” Annual Review of Sociology 46: 273–94. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054857.
Huws, Ursula. 2019. “The Hassle of Housework: Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour.” Feminist Review 123 (1): 8–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919879725.

Unit 5: Applying Theories into Practice: New Ways of Seeing, Learning, and Being

Block, Fred. 2001. Introduction to The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, by Karl Polanyi, xviii–xxxviii. Boston: Beacon Press.
James, Paul, and Manfred B. Steger. 2021. “Globalization in Question: Why Does Engaged Theory Matter?” Globalizations 18 (5): 794–809. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1842045.
Adkin, Laurie. 2023. “Political Ecology.” In Critical Concepts, 6th ed., edited by Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and Malinda Smith, 317–33. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Raworth, Kate. 2017. “Change the Goal: From GDP to the Doughnut.” In Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, 31–60. https://doughnuteconomics.org/tools/18.