Previewing the Readings: Week 4

The readings are available for photocopy in the Filipiniana section. Kindly post here if you have difficulty accessing the readings. I will be in school Tuesday and Thursday so I can bring the books if you wish to photocopy.

As the readings are quite lengthy, I wish to highlight here the themes/concepts that you should focus on.

Our objective for this week's class is to examine how globalization has transformed our experiences of time, place, and space. And of course central in this experience is the role that media and communications have played historically.

The Rantanen (2005) reading on Time, Place and Space offers an easy-to-read literature review, outlining the different definitions of time, place, and space. She also offers a useful review of how theorists from different disciplines have described the media's role in the transformation of time, place, and space. It is crucial to read pages 46-55.

The Tomlinson (1999) reading on Deterritorialization is a critical account of how culture has become "divorced" from place or territory through processes of globalization (i.e., we can experience American culture even from outside the borders of the USA). It is crucial to read pages 106-120 and 128-130. (We will not focus on food and identity, and we will discuss hybridization--the concluding section--in greater detail later in the term)