The course is designed to help the student develop a critical political economy analysis of the interplay between the globalization (of flows of people, material goods, information and political-cultural influence) and localized transnational dynamics, which together are giving meaning and constructing new social identities and strategies for struggles throughout the world. The course will apply this critical political economy approach to long term historical dyanmics of “glocalization” in order to develop future looking pratical perspectives on surviving the major challenges of the 21st Century, including global inequity, climate crisis and disruptive technological change. Special emphasis will be given to the revolution in information technology and the acceleration of mass displacement and transnational diasporas, which are dramatically linking, changing and potentially empowering the life chances and life choices for billions of people in both developed and developing countries as never before.
Taught by Professor Raul Hinojosa