Dr Chris Rumford, Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology, Royal Holloway, University of London


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Royal Holloway
University of London
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX


Chris is based in room F19

office hours: Tuesday 12.00 - 13.00
and Thursday 12.00 - 13.00

email: chris.rumford@rhul.ac.uk
tel:
+44 (0)1784 414133
royal holloway: www.rhul.ac.uk
information for students

January 2008 Course Outlines
PR1450 Inroduction to Globalization
PR 5902A Politics of Globalization

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The Centre for Global and Transnational Politics presents
Faisal Devji
(New School, New York)
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity
Thursday 7th February 5pm Room: WIN 04


links

Borders
> Etienne Balibar – At the borders of Europe | Bejamin R Barber – Dreamers without borders | Peter Andreas - A Tale of Two Borders: the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Lines After 9-11 | Peter Andreas – Border security in the age of globalization | James Anderson - Theorizing State Borders |Society and Sociology in the New Millennium - Lecture 16, Dr Chris Rumford |

Citizenship
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Andreas Follesdal, Citizenship: European and global | John Urry, Globalization and Citizenship | UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Will Kymlicka, Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East | Eleonore Kofman, Contemporary European migrations, civic stratification and citizenship | Koopmans and Statham, How national citizenship shapes transnationalism | World suffrage timeline | Saskia Sassen, Towards Post-National and Denationalized Citizenship | Yasemin Soysal, Citizenship and identity: living in diasporas in post-war Europe? |

Community > Robert Putnam, Bowling alone | J.G. Ruggie, Global Community and the UN | Michael Shapiro, Bowling Blind
| Bob Edwards and Michael W. Foley, Social Capital and Civil Society Beyond Putnam | Robert W. Hefner, Civil society and democracy |
Jeffrey Alexander – Past, present and future of civil society
| Jeffrey Alexander – Paradoxes of civil society |

Cosmopolitanism
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Ulrich Beck, the cosmopolitan state | Craig Calhoun, cosmopolitanism, globalization, democracy | Nick Stevenson, Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship | Adrian Favell, Professionals in western Europe | Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins, Globalization and the Prospects for Cosmopolitan World Society | Danielle Archiburi, Demos and Cosmopolis | Ulrich Beck, Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies | 'Cosmopolitan Democracy and its Critics' by Daniele Archibugi | Ulrich Beck - 'Mobility and the Cosmopolitan Perspective' | Erik Oddvar Eriksen - Towards a Cosmopolitan EU? | Ulrich Beck & Anthony Giddens - Discovering Real Europe: a Cosmopolitan Vision |

Europeanization
> Johan Olsen, The Many Faces of Europeanization | Ian Bache, Europeanization: A Governance Approach | Maarten Vink - What is Europeanization? | Ben Rosamond - Europeanization and Discourses of Globalization | Kevin Featherstone - In the name of 'Europe' |

European Society > Claus Offe, Is there, or can there be, a ‘European Society'? | William Outhwaite, Civil Society in Europe | Time magazine, Generation Europe | Ash Amin, Multiculturalism and Europe | Alisdair Rogers, The spaces of the multiculturalism and citizenship |

European Union
> Andrew Moravcsik, In Defense of the "Democratic Deficit" | Ben Rosamond, Globalisation and the European Union | Chris Rumford, Rethinking the state and polity-building in the European Union: the sociology of globalization and the rise of reflexive government | Gerard Delanty, Models of European Identity: Reconciling Universalism and Particularism | Jo Shaw, Interpreting the concept of European Union citizenship | Fritz W. Scharpf, The European Social Model: Coping with the Challenges of Diversity | Wolfgang Streeck, Competitive Solidarity: Rethinking the "European Social Model" | Giandomenico Majone, Regulatory Institutions in the European Union | Gerard Delanty Citizenship, European Integration and Discursive Space |

Future of Sociology
> Göran Therborn, Second century sociology | Saskia Sassen, New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium | Immanuel Wallerstein, From sociology to historical social science | 'Re-Branding Britain: Sociology, Futures and Futurology' by Sallie Westwood |

Globalization > Planet Mac | Frank Lechner's globalization webpage | Europe in the Global Age, Martin Albrow | www.polity.co.uk/global/ | Paul Hirst/David Held, Globalization debate | Chris Rumford, Political sociology and the challenge of globalization | John Meyer, Globalization, National Culture, and the future of World Polity | Jan Aart Scholte, What is globalization? | David Held and Anthony McGrew, Globalization, regionalization and the transformation of political community | Chris Rumford, Confronting 'Uncivil Society' and the 'Dark Side of Globalization': are Sociological Concepts up to the Task? | David Held, Democracy and Globalization | Barry Gills, Democratizing Globalization |
Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis
| Ulrich Beck, Redefining power in a global economy |

Governance > Foucault, Technologies of the Self | Laidi and Lamy, Governance or making globalisation meaningful | Thomas and Meyer, The expansion of the state
| Norbert Elias, Processes of state formation and nation building | The European Union and the transformation of statehood by Bob Jessop | Sins of the secular missionaries - The Economist | Michel Foucault – Panopticism | Stuart Eldon - Plague, Panopticon, Police |

Identity
> Manuel Castells – Identity and change in the network society | ‘Britain to rebrand ethnic minorities’ | Jan Nederveen Pieterse - Hybridity, So What? | Erwin James – Legion of honour |

Intimacy
> 'What are friends for?' by Jenni Russell | Stuart Jeffries – ‘The chosen’ | 'Romantic love lasts just a year' |

Knowledge Society
> Gerard Delanty, Ideologies of the Knowledge Society | Steve Fuller, Can Universities Solve the Problem of Knowledge in Society? | Robins and Webster, The Virtual University |

Nationalism > Krishan Kumar, europe, nation-state and identity | Gerard Delanty, Beyond the nation-state | Roland Axtmann, Globalization and the nation-state | Gellner/Smith debate on "nations and their pasts" | Michael Mann, Has globalization ended the rise of the nation-state?
| Anthony Smith – Ernest Gellner Memorial Lecture | Benedict Anderson - Western nationalism and eastern nationalism | Chris Rumford's Powerpoint presentation on 'Theories of Nationalism' |

Postmodernism > Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism | Kate Nash, Post-structuralism, human rights for women and equality |

Risk Society > Protect and Survive | Nick Fox, Postmodern reflections on risk | Unnatural disasters | Road to ruin | Global warning: climate change
| Ulrich Beck, From Industrial Society to Risk Society | Ulrich Beck, The Silence of Words and Political Dynamics in the World Risk Society | Ulrich Beck, Politics of risk society | Summary of Beck's 'Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity' | Ulrich Beck - Political Dynamics in the World Risk Society |
Chris Rumford's PowerPoint presentation on ‘Risk Society’ |

The Self
> Chris Rumford's Powerpoint presentation on 'The Self' |

Social Movements
> Margaret Keck and Katherine Sikkink – Environmental advocacy networks | Paul Wapner – Greenpeace and political globalism |

Sociology of the Body > An Introduction to Sociology and Bodies | 'Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians' |

Sociology of emotions >
Cas Wouters, Civilizing of Emotions |

Sociology of nostalgia
> Tim Strangleman, Nostalgia for Nationalisation - the Politics of Privatisation | Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism |

Spaces
> Henk van Houtum & Huib Ernste - Re-imagining spaces of (in)difference |

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Archive - Course outlines

September 2006

Course Outlines
PR1450 Inroduction to Globalization and PR3150 Political Sociology and PR5902A Politics of Globalization
January 2007
Course Outlines
PR5901A Theories of Globalization

September 2005
Course Outlines

PR3150 Political Sociology and
PR5902A Politics of Globalization and PR3113A Society and Sociology in the New Millennium
January 2006
Course Outlines
PR5901A Theories of Globalization


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