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Ann Anagnost (Anthropology)
Andrea Arai (Anthropology)
Jane Dyson (International Studies)
Danny Hoffman (Anthropology)
Craig Jeffrey (Geography)
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| Project Overview |
The core theme of this project explores how youth are linked to converging crises in public life around education, labor, militarization, criminalization, and technology and how global processes affecting young people are playing out in different locations, with particular emphases on Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. A retreat for cluster participants, a speaker series, and a website are planned alongside the launch of new courses on the theme of youth and globalization.
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| Lectures and Courses |
AUTUMN 2006 LECTURES:
 October 6, 2006 • 2:30 pm • Smith 205
"The Child as Liberalism's Limit"
Susan Ruddick (Geography, University of Toronto)
 November 13, 2006 • 3:30 pm • Denny 401
"Prosaic Cosmopolitanism: South Korean College Students Go Global"
Nancy Abelmann Anthropology, University of Illinois)
 December 4, 2006 • 3:30 pm • Denny 401
"The City as Barracks: The Organization of Youth Violence in Freetown and Monrovia"
Danny Hoffman (Anthropology)
WINTER 2007 LECTURES:
 January 29, 2007 • 4:00 pm • CMU 120
"The Impossibility of Development Studies"
Stuart Corbridge (Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science) • e-Flyer
 March 5, 2007 • 3:30 pm • Denny 401
"Immoral Economies? Corruption as Practice and Discourse in India"
Craig Jeffrey (Geography) • e-Flyer
SPRING 2007 LECTURES:
 April 16, 2007 • 3:30 pm • Denny 401
"Embodiments of Value in China's Economic Reform"
Ann Anagnost (Anthropology) • e-Flyer
April 23, 2007 • 3:30 pm • Denny 401
"Disciplining Hearts and Minds: Patriotic Education and the Crisis of the Child in Post-Recessionary Japan"
Andrea Arai (Anthropology) • e-Flyer
May 7, 2007 • 3:30 pm • Denny 401
"Girls, Leaves and Dignity: Cultures of Friendship and Micro-Geographies of Work in the Indian Himalayas"
Jane Dyson (International Studies) • e-Flyer
 May 21, 2007 • 4:00 pm • Communications 120 • e-Flyer
"Figures of Capitalist Globalization: Firm Models and Chain Links"
Anna Tsing (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
COURSES:
Global Futures in East Asia • Autumn 2006
Instructor: Ann Anagnost and Andrea Arai
ANTH 469/SISEA 490a
This comparative course on East Asia (China, Japan and Korea) explores the historical, political, and economic forces of international competition that link education with projects of national development in East Asia and the U.S. A focus on the converging crises of youth, education, and labor will provide undergraduates in their senior year with a deeper historical understanding of how these interconnections have been constituted and how their own futures are intertwined with those of East Asian youth.
International Youth • Autumn 2006
Instructor: Craig Jeffrey • GEOG 343/SISSA 343a
This course examines how young people are responding to processes of global change. It examines how three "key global processes"--increased formal education, economic restructuring, and changing health regimes--are reshaping people's experiences of youth, with particular reference to the US, South Asia and South Africa.
Childhood and Youth in South Asia • Winter 2007
Instructor: Jane Dyson • SISSA 490A
This interdisciplinary course explores childhood and youth in South Asia. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part--'Orientations'--we discuss theoretical approaches to studying childhood and youth in South Asia. The second part of the course is built around a set of themes relevant to an understanding of children's and young people's lives in the South Asian region, namely: work, education, violence, and health. The final part of the course--'Representing Youth'--is concerned with issues of how young people are represented and represent themselves, and the political implications of these representations.
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| Next Lecture |
Monday, May 21, 2007
4:00 pm • Communications 120
"Figures of Capitalist Globalization: Firm Models and Chain Links"
Anna Tsing (Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Global capitalism is not what it used to be. The return of sweatshops, "branding," Wal-Mart, and out-of-season cherries points to the reorganization of global supply chains around self-consciously cultural mobilizations of labor and capital. Monolithic theories of capitalism are not enough to understand this situation. This talk offers a feminist theory of global capitalism in which subcontracting and allied forms configure and link newly segregated economic niches.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005), offers a theory of transnationalism through an exploration of environmental crisis in Indonesia. She is currently involved in collaborative research on the global commodity chain and the transnational scientific network surrounding Pacific Rim forest foraging for a Japanese gourmet mushroom called matsutake.
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