GLCb1011 Globalization and its challenges

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2026
Rozsah
1/1/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Baroš, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Josef Patočka (přednášející)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Ing. Soňa Enenkelová (pomocník)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií (34,00 %), Katedra politologie – Fakulta sociálních studií (33,00 %), Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií (33,00 %)
Předpoklady
TYP_STUDIA(B)
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Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Anotace
The course introduces students to various layers of ever-increasing interconnection and interdependence of societies at the global level. The rising concern about the fate of the world as a whole and the massive processes of destabilisation of social institutions and certainties is addressed, too.
Výstupy z učení
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of the major periods in the history of globalization;
- identify and describe current trends of globalization;
- write an essay outlining local modes of appropriation of global processes in respect to its political, environmental and social aspects;
Klíčová témata
1.  Introduction. Globalization and crisis of capitalism 

Reading: 

Mies, Maria and Veronika Bennholdt Thomsen, 1999: The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy. London: Zed Books. Chapter 2: Globalisation and Subsistence. P. 24 – 64.

Gagyi, Agnes, 2021: The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe: The case of Hungary and Romania. Subchapter: What is Crisis in a Global Sense?. P. 55 – 63.

2. Economic globalisation, climate change and environmental decline
Reading:
Klein, Naomi, 2014: This changes everything. New York: Simon and Schuster. Chapter 2: Hot Money: How Free market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet, p. 64 – 95.
Hornborg, Alf, 2001. The power of the machine: Global inequalities of economy, technology, and environment. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. Chapter 4: Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice. P. 49-64.

3. Whose ‚green transition‘? Economic globalization vs. energy democracy
Reading:
Reading:
Haag, Steffen et al., 2024: Who profits from the green energy rush? Derisking and power relations in Africa’s renewable energy finance. Transnational Institute [online]. Available at: https://www.tni.org/en/article/who-profits-from-the-green-energy-rush 

4.  Beyond globalization: pathways to emancipatory socio-ecological transformation
Reading:
Hanna, Thomas M. and Marjorie Kelly, 2021: Community Wealth Building: The Path towards a Democratic and Reparative Political Economic System. Democracy Collaborative [online].
Sweeney, Sean and John Treat, 2018: Trade Unions and Just Transition: the Search for a Transformative Politics. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy [online]. Available at: https://www.tuedglobal.org/working-papers/trade-unions-and-just-transition-the-search-for-a-transformative-politics

5. Global mobilities

Reading:
MacKinnon, Danny, and Andrew Cumbers. 2019. An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 1-96.

Babb, Sarah, and Alexander Kentikelenis. 2021. “Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change.” Annual Review of Sociology 47(1):521–41. 

Yates-Doerr, Emily, Lauren Carruth, Gideon Lasco, and Rosario García-Meza. 2023. “Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model—and Intervention Otherwise.” Annual Review of Anthropology 52(1):annurev-anthro-041520-093024.


6 .Planetary urbanisation

Reading:  

MacKinnon, Danny, and Andrew Cumbers. 2019. An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 97-224.

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2020. “Cities of the Global South.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):603–22. 

McGuire, Randall H. 2020. “The Materiality and Heritage of Contemporary Forced Migration.” Annual Review of Anthropology 49(1):175–91. 

7. Reading week

8. Transnational Migration

Reading:
MacKinnon, Danny, and Andrew Cumbers. 2019. An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 225-306.

Hagan, Jacqueline Maria, and Joshua Thomas Wassink. 2020. “Return Migration Around the World: An Integrated Agenda for Future Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):533–52.  

 

Kraly, Ellen Percy, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Lorraine Lizbeth Torres Colón, and Holly E. Reed. 2023. “Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration.” Annual Review of Sociology 49(1):129–53. 


9. Denationalisation

Reading:
MacKinnon, Danny, and Andrew Cumbers. 2019. An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 307-388.

Harrington, Brooke, and Leonard Seabrooke. 2020. “Transnational Professionals.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):399–417.  

Roche, Gerald. 2022. “The Necropolitics of Language Oppression.” Annual Review of Anthropology 51(1):31–47.  


10. Human Rights in Global Politics
Reading:

Glendon, Mary Ann 2002. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House, Ch. 12 (“Universalism under Siege”), 221-233.

Pogge, Thomas. 2010. Politics as Usual: What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric. Cambridge: Polity Press, Ch. 2 (“Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor”), 26–56.


11. Open and Closed Borders
Reading:

Miller, David. 2019. “Is There a Human Right to Immigrate?” In: Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi et al. Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11-30.

Oberman, Kieran. 2019. “Immigration as a Human Right.” In: Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi et al. Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 32-53.

12. Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Reading:

Held, David. 2010. Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities. Cambridge: Polity Press, 67–92.

Miller, David. 2016. Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, Ch. 1 (“Cosmopolitanism, Compatriot Partiality, and Human Rights”), 20–37.

13. Corporate Capitalism and Modern Democracy

Reading:

Wolin, Sheldon 2004. Politics and Vision. Princeton: Princeton UP, s. 557-568, 581-606.


Studijní zdroje a literatura
    povinná literatura
  • PATOČKA, Josef; Martin ČECH a Eva FRAŇKOVÁ. Degrowth in the Semi-Periphery : Ecology and Class in Central and Eastern Europe. Czech Journal of International Relations. Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 2024, roč. 59, č. 2, s. 115-146. ISSN 2788-2985. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.32422/cjir.848. article - open access info
  • MILLER, David. Strangers in our midst : the political philosophy of immigration. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016, 218 stran. ISBN 9780674088900. info
  • KLEIN, Naomi. This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate. [London]: Penguin books, 2015, viii, 566. ISBN 9780241956182. info
  • MACKINNON, Danny a Andrew CUMBERS. An introduction to economic geography : globalization, uneven development and place. 2nd ed. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011, xvi, 334. ISBN 9780273727279. info
  • HELD, David. Cosmopolitanism : ideals and realities. 1st ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010, xiii, 306. ISBN 9780745648361. info
  • WOLIN, Sheldon S. Politics and vision : continuity and innovation in Western political thought. Expanded ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, xxiv, 761. ISBN 0691126275. info
    neurčeno
  • see Syllabus
Přístupy, postupy a metody používané ve výuce
Lectures, class discussion. Active attendance on 10 session.

Study workload in hours for 6 ECST: 150 hours
Classes: 24 hours
Preparation for seminars, readings and assignments: 100 hours
Revisions for written exam: 25 hours
Způsob ověření výstupů z učení a požadavky na ukončení
Assesment
Active attendance on 10 session (activity bonus 10 points).
Six assignments during the term (30 points).
Final written examination (60 points).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2023, podzim 2024, podzim 2025.