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Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
b/w 34th & 35th Streets
Room 5417

Semester I, 2002 - 2003

Syllabus
 (All dates are Thursday, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.)

September 26 – Human Security: Definitions and Scope
Discussion Leader: Patricia Clough

1. “Definitions of Human Security.” Compiled by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. Available online at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hpcr/events/hsworkshop/list_definitions.pdf
2. United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report 1994. New York and London. Oxford University Press. Chapter 2: “New Dimensions of Human Security.” pp. 22-40.

3. Timothy, Kristen. “Engendering Human Security: Intersections of Security, Globalization and Gender.” Paper presented to the 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 21-26 July 2002.

4. Sen, Amartya. “Why Human Security.” Presentation at the International Symposium on Human Security,hosted by the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Takanawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo, 28 July 2000. Available online at http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/doc/Sen2000.pdf

5. Thomas, Caroline. Introduction. "Globalization, Human Security, and the African Experience." Ed. Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.

Additional Readings:

Alkire, Sabina. “Working Definition” and “Executive Summary” from Conceptual Framework for Human Security. Available online at http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/doc/frame.pdf.

Report of the Secretary-General on framework for further actions and initiatives that might be considered during the Special Session, Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century. 15-19 March 1999. Section III.D. “Human Security and Social Protection.” Pp. 69-80. Available online at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/future.htm.

Sen, Amartya. "Development as Freedom." New York: Knopf Books, 1999.

Invited Guest: Viviene Taylor, Deputy Executive Director, Commission on Human Security, New York

October 10 – Discourses of Globalization: From Empire to Empire
Discussion Leader: Linda Basch

1. Tickner, J. Ann. “Feminist Perspectives on Security in a Global Economy.” Globalization, Human Security & the African Experience. Ed. Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1999. pp. 41-58.

2. Aslanbeigui, Nahid and Gale Summerfield. “Risk, Gender, and Development in the 21st Century.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. 15.1 (Sept. 2001), pp. 7-26.

3. Escobar, Arturo. "Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World." Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1995. Chapters 1 & 2.

4. Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000. Part 1.1, “World Order,” pp. 3-21.

5. Sassen, Saskia. “Women’s Burden: Counter-Geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival.” Journal of International Affairs. 53.12 (2000): pp. 503-524.

Additional Readings:

Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling and Deanna M. Lyter. “Studying Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks.” Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia. Ed. Esther Ngan-Ling Chow. New York: Routledge, 2002. Chapter 2.

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000. Part 1.2, “Biopolitical Production,” pp. 22-41.

Sparr, Pamela. "Mortgaging Women’s Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment." London: Zed Books Ltd., 1994. pp. 1-39. [Chapters 1 & 2]

Invited Guest: Radhika Balakrishnan

October 24 – Human Rights & Human Security
Discussion Leader: Kristen Timothy

1. Charlesworth, Hilary. “What are Women’s International Rights?” In Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994.

2. Cheah, Pheng. “Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global Conjecture.” Public Culture. 9 (1997), pp. 233-266.

3. Ignatieff, Michael. “Human Rights as Moral Imperialism.” Paper presented at The Politics and Political Uses of Human Rights Discourses: A Conference on Rethinking Human Rights. Columbia University, 8-9 November 2001.

Invited Guest: TBA

November 7 – Conflict, Terror, & the State
Discussion Leader: Indai Sajor

1. Sajor, Indai. (TBA)

2. Nagengast, Carole. "Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State." Annual Review of Anthropology. 23 (1994): pp. 109-136.

3. Enloe, Cynthia. “Demilitarization - or more of the same? Feminist questions to ask in the postwar moment.” The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping. Bosnia and the Netherlands. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2002. pp. 22-32.

4. DeLanda, Manuel. “Bloodless Transfusion.” War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. New York: Zone Books, 1991. pp. 127-169.

3. Enloe, Cynthia. “Demilitarization – or more of the same? Feminist questions to ask in the postwar moment.” The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping. Bosnia and the Netherlands. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2002. pp. 22-32.

Invited Guest: TBA

November 21 – Cultures of Violence: Questions & Issues
Discussion Leader: Victoria Pitts

1. Biehl, Joao. 2001. “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Social Text. 19.3 (Fall 2001).

2. Rao, Anupama. TBA.

3. Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. "Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology." differences 12.1 (Spring 2001)

4. Mahasweta, Devi. “Pterodactyle, Puron Sahay and Pirtha.” From Imaginary Maps: three stories. Translation and Introduction by: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. New York, Routledge, 1995.

Invited Guest: Charlotte Bunch

December 5 – Trafficking, Nations & Boundaries
Discussion Leader: Jacqueline Berman

1. Berman, Jacqueline. “(Un)Popular Strangers and Crises (Un)Bounded: Discourses of Sex-Trafficking, European Immigration and National Security Under Global Duress.” European Journal of International Relations. 9.1 (Forthcoming, March 2003).

2. Altman, Dennis. Global Sex. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. Chapters 2 (“The Many Faces of Globalization”) and 8 (“Sexual Politics and International Relations.”) pp. 10-33, 122-137.

3. Kempadoo, Kamala. “Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers’ Rights.” Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. Ed. Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Additional Readings:

Lim, L. Lean. “The Sex Sector: The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia.” Geneva: ILO, 1998. pp. 9-16.

Yngesson, Barbara & Susan Bibler Coutin. “In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization.” Submitted to Law and Social Inquiry, October 2001.

Invited Guest: TBA

December 19 – Accountability & Citizenship
Discussion Leader: Premilla Nadsen

1. Ong, Aihwa. “Cultural Citizenship as Subject Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaies in the United States.” In Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader. Ed. Rodolfo D. Torres, Louis F. Miron, and Jonathan X. Inda. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.

2. Petchesky, Rosalind. Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Charting the Course of Transnational Women’s NGOs. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Occasional Paper 8. 2000. Section III, “Implementing International Norms at the National Level: The Many Faces of Privatization.”

3. Samantrai, Ranu. "The Price of Membership: Nationality and Immigration Law." AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation. Stanford Univeristy Press, 2002.

Invited Guest: TBA

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