Apa yang dipelajari dan dipahami dari Master Globalisation, Identity, Technology
Culture – geography ‘ placemaking, sense of belonging, home, culturalscapes, politics of space, borderzones, displacement people, refugees, diasporic societies (Roger Bromley)
Culture – identity1 ‘ identity making, construction-deconstruction of cultural identities, process of articulation, narrativity, ethnographic representation (Richard Johnson)
Culture – identity 2 ‘ gendered identities, queers, masculinism, bodies, femininities (Nigel Eadley)
Culture – globalisation ‘ globalscapes (seeing and being seen simultaneously), flowing ideas, interconnectedness (Roger Bromley)
Culture – Cosmopolitanism ‘ pan European global visions, worlding processes, global cities) (Mike Featherstone, John Tomlinson, Eleanore Koffman).
Culture – ideology ‘ how ideology operates through media, how ideology is (being) continuously constructed, hegemony -British politics. (Richard Johnson).
Globalisation – Islam ‘ Marxist approach to global clash-civilization, very American hatred issues, history of colonial invasion in middle east, Secularization, muslim and its backwardness, searching for democratic thoughts (Ali Mohamadi).
Migration – globalisation ‘ history of big migrations, colonialism and migration, flowing of people, how postcolonial region maintains its colonial migration links, how Europe has long became honey pot for their colonial subjects. (Eleanore Koffman, Roger Bromley).
Technology – virology ‘ global deseases, the narrative of virology, virus as actants (non-human actors) (Joost van Loon).
Technology – bodies ‘ portabilities, implants, human-machine relationships (Joost van Loon)
Technology – cultural vision, meanings, perceptions ‘ techno determinism pro and con, utopian and dystopian vision: Marx, Heiddeger, Mc Luhan, Postman (Neil Turnbull).
Technology – its social shapes ‘ how people use technological appliances, technology as social construction (Joost van Loon)
Methods – Narrative Methods, using Ricoeur theories, narrative articulations for (possibly autoethnography!) traumatic experiences (Richard Johnson).
Methods – Novel analysis, novel as ethnographic data (Roger Bromley).
Methods – discourse analysis ‘ how to deeply analyse discourse in (daily) conversations, very linguistic, not recommended for cross-cultural project (Nigel Eadley).
Hard issues for me to comprehend:
Global Governance, international politics ‘ I don’t understand why it is included in course (Chris Ferrands).
Fordism ‘ dull topics, how the West gains effective industrialisms by placing global scale fordism, but it is useful to explain why one brand has many components from global sources (Chris Ferrands)
Methods – epistemological issues ‘ others, hard subjects I don’t understand (Neil Turnbull).
What I need more, and I did not get much from courses.
Global inequalities, more political issues on globalisation for the Third World.
Development issues