Globalization and Localization in Youth Cultures
ANTH 324
Fall 2013
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 321 |
This course takes globally circulating forms of commercial youth culture (especially popular music, fashion, movies, and television) as sites for analyzing interconnected processes of cultural change and cultural continuity. Using ethnographically based studies of youth in a variety of national contexts, we will approach young people as agents who draw on locally embedded resources in consuming global cultural forms and also create new, hybridized forms of culture that have both local and global roots. In these emerging youthscapes, cultural flow is not simply from "West to Rest" but is multidirectional, as locally produced hybrid forms circulate across national boundaries and sometimes back to Western markets. In mapping such flows, we will focus on their implications for identity formation among youth. In what ways, we will ask, do young people in particular sociocultural locations use the production and/or consumption of commercial cultural forms in orienting themselves vis-à-vis global and local worlds and in imagining and pursuing possible futures?
Designed primarily for anthropology majors, the course also admits students from other majors with serious interests in ethnographic youth-cultural research. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ANTH101 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Brian Larkin, Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Mwenda Ntaranguwi, East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization
Lila Abu- Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt
Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly, Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and the Urban Imaginary
Parn Nilan and Carlos Feixa, Global Youth?: Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds
Mark Liechty, Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society
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Examinations and Assignments:
Mid-term and final research papers; weekly research journal; discussion facilitation |
| Instructor(s): Traube,Elizabeth G. Times: ....R.. 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: ANTH6; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 6 | | |
| Seats Available: 7 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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