Mn-prog-events Mailing List: radical geography summer course at the U

[clou0062 (clou0062]

Hello, I'm teaching a course at the U of M this summer that some folks who 
are students might be interested in. The course is the intro to human 
geography class geog 1301, 6/16-8/6. It's writing intensive and fulfills 
several requirements. It's called "Our Globalizing World", stupid name, I 
know, but the content is basically an introduction to radical/marxian 
critiques of global capitalism, colonialism, and Empire. We'll be reading 
Manfred Steger's "Globalization: a brief introduction", Jim Blaut's 
"Colonizers View of the World", as well as sections of "Globalization and 
it's Discontents", and some stuff that is yet to be nailed down about the 
Zapatistas, post-development theory, and applying David Harvey's critique 
of Time-space compression in order to challenge and de-center euro-centric 
capitalist conceptions of Western exceptionalism. The course will end with 
a focus on contesting Empire and will involve an examination of so-called 
anti-globalization movements,Seattle, Genoa, and the plans to challenge the 
RNC in St. Paul. Students will have the option of using activism that they 
are undertaking in relation to the RNC or other global/local issues as a 
big part of their final project. 4 credits, meets Monday and Wednesday 
6-8:30pm, and Thursday 6-9pm, 6/16-8/09 on the West Bank somewhere. If you 
could pass this along to anyone you think might be interested I'd really 
appreciate it, I think it will be a good time and I'd love to have some 
radical students in there. See you. oh yeah, pdf of course flyer is 
attached.

solidarity,
-nathan clough

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary.  Always!  ---Guy Debord
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Nathan Clough
Ph.D. Candidate,
Darrell Haug Davis Fellow,
Dept. of Geography
University of Minnesota
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