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2005-2007 Global Initiatives Work Groups led by SAS Faculty.
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New Cosmopolitanisms |
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This group brings together humanities and social sciences faculty and graduate students throughout the Rutgers campuses to explore the topic of “new cosmopolitanisms.” The study group will explore such topicsas: global cities, new and revised notions of community, local globalism, citizenship and migration, rethinking of East/West and North/South polarities, translation, language change in the new cosmopolis, and the cultural challenges of the “post-colonial.” The group would particularly like to bring in Walter Mignolo (Duke University) to speak as part of the ongoing discussion of models of international studies. If you are interested in joining this group please contact Marcy Schwartz or César Braga-Pinto. Marcy Schwartz (SAS, Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies); César Braga-Pinto (SAS, Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies, and Comparative Literature Program). |
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Geographies of Global Transformation: Inequality, Uneven Development, and Resistance |
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Global change entails a wide range of cultural, economic, environmental, and political processes that have increased inter-connections between people and places, yet at the same time have also created new types of inequalities and new categories of exclusion. Some of these new divisions fall along traditional North-South lines, while others cut across dimensions of class, gender, race, and ethnicity. This working group will explore the implications of processes of global change for questions of sociospatial inequality, vulnerability, and resistance across places, individuals and social groups. The group will also explore efforts to resist these polarizing tendencies. The longer term goal of the working group is to form an interdisciplinary research program that builds upon the group's common interests in sociospatial inequalities associated with global change. Proposed activities include monthly brown-bag lunches, outsider speakers, a graduate student conference, and a professional conference co-sponsored by the Geography Department. To join please contact Robin Leichenko or Angelique Haugerud. Robin Leichenko (SAS, Geography); Angelique Haugerud (SAS, Anthropology). |
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