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The focus of this master class will be the themes and issues discussed in After Globalization (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), a book Szeman co-write with Dr. Eric Cazdyn (University of Toronto). Participants in the master class will be supplied with a PDF of the entire book (Part one and the conclusion should be read beforehand).
After Globalization began as a study of expressions of anti-Americanism(s) sweeping the globe in the late 1990s and early part of the new century, with the aim of understanding the implications of such discourses for contemporary politics, culture and global visions of the future. They were especially interested in understanding the significance of these new anti-Americanisms in the context of globalization, a period often characterized as post-national and in which other states (the EU and a number of developing nations) were rising to positions of economic and political prominence. In addition to offering context and background in which to situate these new anti-Americanisms, the two planned to interview university students across the globe to understand the ways in which a new generation understood the nature of power in the world and their position and possibilities within it.
Over the course of our study, they changed focus in light of shifts in dominant discourses of global power. In After Globalization they examine the fate of the broader discourses of globalization within which contemporary anti-Americanisms are situated. They explore globalization as an ideological-discursive project whose intent is to treat those economic, political and cultural transformations typically associated with it as quasi-natural phenomenon about which little can be changed or altered; recent anti-Americanisms challenge this overarching narrative of globalization as much as they constitute a reproach to U.S. cultural, economic and political power specifically. We argue that one of the main reasons globalization has proved so effective as a social discourse even in the face of multiple challenges to its legitimacy is that it involves a certain configuration of time—one that can no longer imagine an "after." (Modernity could have a post-modernity to follow it. But globalization? Post-globalization sounds like some dystopian coda to everything, not a new phase of human society.)
After Globalization consists of three parts. First, it is sought to understand the discursive construction of globalization's "time limit." Second, the work of four prominent public thinkers (Richard Florida, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Naomi Klein) is examined whose work has been associated with attempts to criticize, amend and ameliorate the effects and impacts of globalization, in order to generate a way beyond the strict market-rationality that has become the governing idea(l) of the global era. They seek to understand the nature of their arguments, point out their limiting assumptions, and describe the operations of globalization's time limit within them. Finally, with the aim of better comprehending how they might move beyond the imaginative limits of globalization, we assess the attitudes and understandings of the global generation to the global future, by examining the findings that emerge from long qualitative interviews undertaken with more than 70 university students in six countries: Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Taiwan.
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