| Graduate Seminar
Islands of Globalization PACS 690 Syllabus (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) Global Waikiki: Field Trip Exercise
The seminar will be coordinated by Prof. Katerina Teaiwa (Center for Pacific Islands Studies). Participating instructors include Dr. Esther Figueroa (independent filmmaker with Juniroa Productions Inc,; Prof. Terence Wesley-Smith (Center for Pacific Islands Studies; Dr. Gerard Finin and Scott Kroeker. Both Scott and Jerry are with the Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center. |
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This interdisciplinary graduate seminar seeks to understand the nature and consequences of globalization when viewed from
the perspective of islands and in the context of “islandness.” It will focus on the island societies of the Pacific and Caribbean and investigate how these societies struggle and engage creatively with global forces in the production and reproduction of lives and livelihoods. The seminar
will be organized around three local/global “theatres of exchange” (the movement of people, the movement of ideas, the movement of things) and explore aspects of island settlement, travel, cultural/material consumption and production, as well as changing land/ocean- and socio-scapes.
Participants will use innovative cross-regional research strategies to examine the hybrid forms of discourse, music, art, media, literature, and material culture that increasingly define these “islands of globalization.” Students will be actively involved in defining the seminar contents
via their research interests, participation, and innovative contributions.