2011-2012 YEAR THREE - Cardiff University

Syllabus Content:
Topics to be taught may include:
Globalisation
Colonialism and Imperialism
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Multiculturalism
Migration (voluntary, forced, economic, political, tourist, etc.)
Relations between culture and economy
Problems of globalization and localization
Effects of various Technologies on culture.
Global hegemonies and local cultures.
Indicitive Reading List (not complete or comprehensive):
Amin, Samir. (1989). Eurocentrism (Russell Moore, trans.). New York:
Monthly Review Press (original work published in 1988).
——. (1992). Empire of Chaos (W. H. Locke Anderson, trans.). New
York: Monthly Review Press (originally published in 1992).
Anderson, Benedict. (1991). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. (1998). Key Concepts in
Post-colonial Studies. London: Routledge.
Beaud, Michel. (1983). A History of Capitalism, 1500–1980 (Tom
Dickman and Anny Lefebvre, trans.). New York: Monthly Review
Press (originally published in 1981).
Bhabha, Homi K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
Bukharin, Nicolai. (1929). Imperialism and World Economy. New York:
International Publishers (originally published in 1913).
Chan, Stephen (2000), ‗The Construction and Export of Culture as
Artefact: The Case of Japanese Martial Arts‘, Body & Society, Vol. 6(1):
69–74.
Chan, Jachinson W. (2000), ‗Bruce Lee‘s Fictional Models of
Masculinity‘, Men and Masculinities, Vol. 2 No. 4, April 2000 371-387.
Clarke, J. J. (1997), Oriental Enlightenment: the Encounter Between Asian
and Western Thought, London: Routledge.
Chow, Rey (1991), Woman and Chinese Modernity, Minnesota and
London: University of Minnesota Press.
Chow, Rey (1993), Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in
Contemporary Cultural Studies, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Press.
Chow, Rey (1995) Primitive Passions, New York: Columbia University
Press.
Chow, Rey (1998), Ethics After Idealism, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Press.
Chow, Rey (2002), The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, New
York: Columbia University Press.
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