Ce cours apparaît dans les formations suivantes :
• ESPOL - Licence 2 de Relations Internationales - S3 - 3 ECTS

Objectifs du cours

-Understand the major ongoing debates on the process of Globalisation and the development and implications of a Global History (on a worldwide scale)

-Understand how these processes contribute to the shaping of new conceptions of the past and the present of our world

Contenu du cours

What is globalization and what are the implications of such a concept for research in the field of humanities?

In this course, we will question the concept of globalization in some of its cultural, historical and geographical impacts in order to bring forward the general reshaping of our former conceptions of the world in terms of space (geography), History and representation of the “Other� (in terms of alterity).

Thus, this course aims at providing a general overview as well as a critical approach of the various theories related to, and derived from, the concept of globalization in the fields of History and Civilization, Geography and Social Sciences, and their influence on the shaping of state policies of global reach.

In order to shed a new light on the old debate about the East and the West, commonly referred to as Orient and Occident, we will question Eurocentric preconceived ideas and misconceptions and we will probe into issues related to the rise of Cultural Studies in a postcolonial world, the construction of the myth of the Occident and the supposed “clash of civilizations�, the controversial issues of Orientalism and its opposite Occidentalism, democracy, human rights and the rise of Asian values, the development of South/South relations …

The recalling of these numerous theories should lead us to a further analysis of a major shift in our representations of the world and of the “Other� that has already started reshaping state policies and global governance, redefining what was once considered a unique and universal movement towards progress.

The course will also briefly recall (as a case study) the specific historical links between the Indian subcontinent, the western coasts of South-East Asia and the eastern coast of Africa, so as to show the interconnectedness of cultures around the Indian Ocean.

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Évaluation

Contrôle continu : coeff. 100

Bibliographie

• Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies. Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, The Penguin Press, 2004.||
  Orientalism. Edward Said, Vintage Books Edition, 1979.||
  ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Andre Gunder Frank, University of California Press, 1998.||
  Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond. Pankaj Mishra, Picador, 2006.||
  The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity. Amartya Sen, Allen Lane, 2005.||
  The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are reshaping the World. Dominique Moïsi, Anchor Books, 2010.||
  The New Asian Hemisphere: the Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. Kishore Mahbubani, PublicAffairs, 2008.||
  The Theft of History. Jack Goody, Cambridge University Press, 2006.||
  Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Kirti N. Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Press, 1985.