SPRING 2009 COURSES AND TEXTS

ASSIGNED TEXTS: SPRING 2009

 COURSE READERS CAN BE PURCHASED IN THE POLITICS DEPT. 309 MULLER. 

 A.        INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES: POLT-12900-01        

1. Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees (Picador)
2. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (Riverhead Books)
3. Charles Derber, People Before Profit (Picador)
4. Course Reader

 B.        POLITICS OF MEMORY: POLT-33700-01                  

1. Wertsch, James V. 2002. Voices of Collective Remembering. (also available as an e-book) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Neuffer, Elizabeth. 2002. The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda NY: Picador. 
3. Kenneth Foote, 2003. Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy. University of Texas Press.
4. Terry Bell and Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza, 2003. Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth. Publisher- Verso
5. Course Reader

 C.         DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: POLT-40300-02

1. Carolyn Nordstrom, Shadows of War: Violence, Power and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. 
2. Farmer, Paul. 2003. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
3. Rieff, David. 2002. A bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crises . New York: Simon and Schuster.
4. Uvin, Peter. 2004. Human Rights and Development. Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press.
5. Course Reader