SOAN 309: Colonialism & Development
TuTh 1:20-2:35, Alumni 207
Colgate University
 Fall 2004 Professor Thomas Hall
 Office:  408 Alumni, x7083, email:  tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
 OFFICE HOURS:  Tu 2:45-4; W 1:30-2:30 & 5:20-6, Th 12-1, & by appt
Last Updated 9-7-04

Reserve Readings
ALL NOT YET IN PLACE, BUT SOON!

The following items will be on reserve in Case Library.  Iinternet items are available on line, URLs provided.  I do NOT use blackboard or electronic reserves.

TEXTS:
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart

Bodley, John H. and Kevin Reilly. 2002.  Power of Scale: A Global History Approach.  Armonk, NY:  ME Sharpe.

McMichael, Philip.  2003.  Development and Social Change:  A Global Perspective, 3rd ed.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Pine Forge. 

Memmi, Albert.  1965.  The Colonizer and the Colonized, expanded edition, 1991, Trans. Howard Greenfeld, from 1957 French original  Boston: Beacon.

Norberg-Hodge, Helena.  1991.  Ancient Futures:  Learning from Ladakh.  San Francisco:  Sierra Club Books.

Shannon, Thomas R. 1996. An Introduction to the World-System Perspective 2nd ed.  Boulder, CO:  Westview Press.

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta.  1991 [1979]. Child of All Nations.  Trans.  Max Lane.  London:  Penguin. 

INTERNET RESERVES:
Carlson, Jon D.  2001.  Broadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the Zone of Ignorance.  Journal of World-Systems Research 7:2(Fall):225-263 [E-Journal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article reviews the expansion of world-systems, examining the concept of incorporation and compares it with various International Relations explanations of expansion.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher.  1999.  "Globalization:A World-Systems Perspective."  Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):156-185 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]. 
This article gives an world-systems view of globalization.

Dunaway, Wilma A.   2001.  “The Double Register of History:  Situation the Forgotten Woman and Her Household in Capitalist Commodity Chains.”  Journal of World-System Research 7:1(Spring):2-31 [E-Journal: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article critiques world-system theory for insufficient attention to gender, BUT ALSO shows how to examine gender issues. 

Hall, Thomas D., ed.  2000a.  A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Press.
[This is on reserve in Alumni 430 for SOAN 453B]

Hall, Thomas D.   2001.  "Chiefdoms, States, Cycling, and World-Systems Evolution: A Review Essay." Journal of World-Systems Research 7:1(Spring):91-100 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
Summarizes the cycling issue among chiefdoms.

Manning, Susan, ed.  1999.  "Introduction [To special issue on Globalization]."  Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):137-141 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]  [issue 137-461].
Just what it says, the entire issue discusses globalization.  The Chase-Dunn, Moghadam, and Sklair articles are especially good, and are in this list.

Moghadam, Valentine M. 1999.  "Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women’s Mobilization." Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):367-388 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php] 
Another from the special issue, with emphasis on gender.

Sklair, Leslie.  1999.   “Competing Conceptions of Globalization.”  Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer): 141-159 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]
Sklair's position. Another from the special issue.Sklair,

RESERVES IN ALUMNI 430, SOAN RESOURCE ROOM:
Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer.  2000.   "Trade Globalization Since 1795:  Waves of Integration in the World-System."  American Sociological Review 65:1(February): 77-95.
This article gives a different view of globalization, and presents data showing that it began in the 19th century at least.

Hall, Thomas D.  2002.  "World-Systems Analysis and Globalization:  Directions for the Twenty-First Century."  Pp. 81-122 in Theoretical Directions in Political Sociolology for the 21st Century, Vol. 11, edited by Betty A. Dobratz, Timothy Buzzell, Lisa K. Waldner.  Oxford:  Elsevier Science Ltd.
A more recent overview of world-system theory than chapter one of the Hall reader. [on reserve for SOAN 453B]

EVENTUALLY ON RESERVE at CASE:
Shannon, Thomas R. 1996. An Introduction to the World-System Perspective.

Sklair, Leslie.  2002.  Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press. [on reserve for SOAN 453B]

Ward, Kathryn B., ed.  1990.  Women Workers and Global Restructuring.  Ithaca, NY:  ILR Press. [on reserve for SOAN 453B]

Wolf, Eric R.  1982.  Europe and the People Without History.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Send comments or questions to tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
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