General Catalog 2023-24

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 1. Reconsideration of histories and geographies of global capitalism. Displacing industrial revolution from Britain out into colonial world, transatlantic slave trade, and attempted genocide of indigenous peoples in Americas, study of new map of global capitalism and new histories of globalization. Study covers capitalism; embodiment and gender; capitalism and environmental crisis; and new issues in digital capitalism, gig economy, and social media. Letter grading.