Education, Equity and Social Identities Reading Group
Semester 1, 2009 Program
Meeting Times, Friday 4.00-5.30
Friday February 20th - Alice Hoy Meeting Room 2
- Ulrich Beck (2008) World at Risk, Polity Press, [Chapter 1].
- Benedict Anderson (1983) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism, Verso, [Chapter 1].
Friday March 6th - Alice Hoy Meeting Room 2
- Ulrich Beck (2008) - 'Critical Theory of World Risk Society' , in 'World at Risk' [Chapter 11]
- Craig Calhoun (2007) - 'Is it time to be postnational?', in 'Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream' [Introduction]
Friday March 20th - Frank Tate Room
- Global Flows' of Arjun Appadurai's (1996) 'Modernity at Large' [Introduction and Part One]
Friday April 3rd - Frank Tate Room
- Appadurai, A (2001) ‘Grassroots globalization and the research imagination’, in his ed. Globalization, Duke UP, Durham.
- Kraidy, M. (2005) ‘Hybridity without guarantees : toward critical transculturalism’, in his Hybridity, or the cultural logic of globalization, Temple UP, Philadelphia.
Friday April 24 - Frank Tate Room
- Pollock, S, Bhabha, H. Breckenridge, C.A. and Chakrabarty, D (2002) ‘Cosmopolitanisms’, in Breckenridge, C. A ed. Cosmopolitanism, Duke UP, Durham.
- Anderson, B. (1983) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism Introduction (revisiting from earlier session, and perhaps one other chpt)
Friday May 8th - Frank Tate Room
- Ong, W, Flexible citizenship : the cultural logics of transnationality [excerpts]
- Second reading to be confirmed
Friday May 22nd - Frank Tate Room
- Dewey, J (1927). The public and its problems, [excerpts]
- Fraser, Nancy (1990), ’Rethinking the public sphere: A contribution to actually existing democracy’, Social Text, no.25/26, pp.56-80.
Friday June 5th - Frank Tate Room
- Readings to be advised
Sessions in Term 4, 2008
Friday October 10th
- Raewyn Connell (2007) Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in the Social Sciences, Allen and Unwin, Chapters 1-3.
Friday October 24th
- Connell, Southern Theory, Chapters 4, 8 and 10
Friday November 7th
- G. H. Mead (1934) Mind, Self and Society [excerpts]
Friday November 21st ( nb: Reading group in Meeting Room 2, Alice Hoy Building)
- C. Wright Mills (1959) The Sociological Imagination [excerpts]
Anthony Elliott, Recent commentary on the influence of Mills.
Friday December 12th
- Erving Goffman (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, [excerpts].
Followed by plans for 2009 and a group end of year dinner.