THE COLLEGE OF THE BAHAMAS

                                                                                                              

 

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SCHOOL:               English Studies________________________________________________

 

DEPARTMENT:    Bahamian and Caribbean Cultural Studies___________________________

 

COURSE TITLE:   Culture and Power I: Colonialism. Imperialism, Globalization and Post-Colonialism

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR CATALOGUE:

This course focuses on cultural studies concepts and methodologies by examining the large-scale power relations shaping the development of The Bahamas and the Caribbean.  Beginning with the relations of slavery and colonialism through imperialism to globalization and post-coloniality, it focuses on the relationships between large-scale historical socio-economic contexts and cultural practices.

 

PURPOSE OF COURSE:

 

University transfer                               ( X )                                                        External Examination                            (    )

College Diploma or Certificate           (     )                                                        Recreational/General Interest

College Degree                                     ( X )                                                        (non-credit)                                           ( X )

 

PRE-REQUISITE(S):

 

ENG 125 or permission of Chair and/or Coordinator

 

 

 

CO-REQUISITE(S):

None

 

 

 

HOURS PER WEEK: 

LLecture

3

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Seminar/Tutorial

 

 

SEMESTER HOUR CREDITS:

3

 

 

SEQUENTIAL COURSE(S):

ENG 231, Culture and Power II

 

OTHER COB COURSES HAVING CONTENT OVERLAP:   __None   ____________

 

COURSE DEVELOPED ( X )/REVISED (  )  BY: 

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School of English Studies

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(P. Burkhardt)

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APPROVALS:

Head of Department:

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Chair of School:

 

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Dean:

 

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Academic Board

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NOTE:

1.       A detailed course description must be attached. This must include course objectives, list of topics covered, prescribed textbooks, reading list, method of assessment, and external examinations which are prepared for in this course.

2.       The course description must be suitable for distribution to students.

3.       Only lecturers/instructors approved by The College will be allowed to teach this course.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

This course focuses on cultural studies concepts and methodologies by examining the large-scale power relations shaping the development of The Bahamas and the Caribbean.  Beginning with the relations of slavery and colonialism through imperialism to globalization and post-coloniality, it examines the relationships between large-scale historical socio-economic contexts and cultural practices.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

 

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

 

1.      Identify the large-scale historical and contemporary structural power relations operative in The Bahamas and the Caribbean, specifically colonialism and slavery, imperialism and decolonization, globalization and post-colonialism.

2.      Compare and contrast the central elements, relations and institutions characteristic of each of these contexts as they relate to cultural practice.

3.      Identify the ways in which dominant groups employ, transform and are transformed by the existing cultural practices and social relations of subordinate groups.

4.      Discuss the general role of cultural forms, practices and traditions as developing, resisting or accommodating these dominant large-scale structures of power.

5.      Analyze the specific relationships of a local cultural phenomenon to relevant large-scale contexts and structures.

 

COURSE CONTENT

 

I.                    Culture and Power

·        Definitions of power and power relations

·        Introduction to scale vis a vis culture and power

·        Hegemony:  culture and consensus in dominant and subordinate group relations

¨      From violence to regulation and control

·        Disciplinary regimes and technologies

·        Discipline, knowledge and the politics of categorization

¨      Cultural categories and hierarchical relations

¨      Discipline, power and academic representations of cultures and societies

·        Cultural studies approaches to historical contexts and cultural practices

·        Culture, communication and world view

·        Ideology and group relations

·        Accommodation and resistance

¨      Reproduction and transformation of large-scale hierarchies

 

II.                 Colonialism

·        Domination

·        Institutions, practices and forms of colonialism

¨      Forced relocation of slaves

¨      Slavery and plantation culture (Social, cultural and psychological effects)

¨      Racism

¨      Culture, politics and colonial governance

¨      Preconditions for capitalist development and the world system

-- Changes from slavery to indentured labour

·        Exploring Bahamian and Caribbean cultures as resistances and accommodations to colonialism, possible topics for discussion and writing:

¨      Religion, language, tradition

¨      Black ethnic nationalism / pan-Africanism

¨      Revolutionary movements in the Caribbean

¨      Decolonization in the Caribbean

¨      Nationalism and cultural tradition

 

III.               Imperialism

·        Exploitation

·        Institutions, practices and forms of imperialism

¨      Class relations under capitalist wage labor

¨      Labor theory of value

¨      Alienation

¨      Capitalist nation-states

¨      Culture, nations and nationalisms

¨      The world system:  core & periphery

¨      Dependency theory; the development of underdevelopment

·        Exploring Bahamian and Caribbean cultures as resistances and accommodations to imperialism, possible topics for discussion and writing:

¨      Labour unions

¨      Revolutionary movements

¨      Women’s movements, suffrage

¨      Decolonization in The Bahamas

¨      National culture heritage reclamation

¨      Political and economic theories and ideologies

¨      Independence and dependency in the Caribbean

 

IV.              Post-coloniality and Globalization

·        Global / local

·        Post-colonial theory

¨      Hybridity, creolization

¨      Mimicry

¨      Subversion

·        Institutions, practices and forms of globalization

¨      Economic institutions (IMF, World Bank, OECD, etc.)

¨      Multi-national media industries

¨      Popular culture and consumption

·        Flows and boundaries

¨      Mediascapes, financescapes, ethnoscapes, ideascapes, etc.

¨      National boundaries, immigration within and through The Bahamas and Caribbean

·        Exploring Bahamian and Caribbean cultures as resistances and accommodations to post-colonialism and globalization, possible topics for discussion and writing:

¨      Local media forms and practices

¨      New social movements (ethnic, national, gendered, environmental, issue-based, coalitions)

¨      Overcoming intra-Caribbean racism

¨      Political alliances, pan-Caribbean movement

 

V.                 Studying Culture in Large-scale Power Contexts

·        Connecting the specific to the general

·        Articulating connections between cultural practice and large-scale axes of domination and exploitation

·        Methodologies

¨      Historical

¨      Literary / textual

¨      Structural relations

·        Effects of scale on knowledge and representation

·        Diachronic and synchronic studies of culture

 

ASSESSMENT

 

Exams                                                              15%

Short Essays and Weekly Writings                    40%

Proposal                                                             5%

Final Research Project                          30%

Participation                                                __ 10%

TOTAL                                                          100%

 

REQUIRED TEXTS

 

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H.  (1998).  Key concepts in post-colonial studies.  New York:  Routledge.  ISBN 0415153042

During, S. (1999).  The cultural studies reader (2nd ed.).  New York:  Routledge.  ISBN 0415137543

Rius, T. (Ed.).  (1990).  Marx for beginners : Philosophy, economic doctrine, historical materialism.  New York:  Pantheon.  ISBN  0679725121

 

Note on course texts:  The above required texts will also be used in ENG 231 Culture & Power II in addition to the texts listed in the ENG 231 Course Outline.  The supplemental readings are common to both ENG 230 and ENG 231.

 

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

 

Althusser, L.  (1971).  Lenin and philosophy and other essays.   (Ben Brewster, Trans.).  London:  N L B.

Andersen, M.  (2001).  Race, class and gender:  An anthology.  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth.

Anderson, B.  (1983).  Imagined communities.  London:  Verso.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H.  (1989).  The empire writes back:  Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures.  New York:  Routledge.

Appadurai, A.  (1996).  Modernity at large:  Cultural dimensions of globalization.             Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press.

Aronowitz, S.  (1992).  The politics of identity:  Class, culture, social movements.  New York:  Routledge.

Baca Zinn, M., Hondagneu-Sotelo, P., & Messner, M.  (Eds.).  (2000).  Gender through the prism of difference (2nd ed.).  Needham Heights:  Allyn & Bacon.

Baldwin, E., Longhurst, B., McCracken, S., Ogburn, M., & Smith, G. (1999).  Introducing cultural studies.  Hemel Hempstead:  Prentice Hall.

Barker, C. (2000).  Cultural studies: Theory and practice.  London: Sage.

Barker, F., Hulme, P., & Iversen, M. (Eds.).  (1994).  Colonial discourse / postcolonial theory.  Manchester:  Manchester University Press.

Barrow, C.  (Ed.).  (1998).  Caribbean portraits:  Essays on gender ideologies and identities.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Barrow, C., & Reddock, R. (Eds.).  (2001).  Caribbean sociology:  Introductory readings.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Beckles, H.  (1998).  Centering woman:  Gender discourses in Caribbean slave society.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Benn, D., & Hall, K. (Eds.).  (2000).  Globalisation:  A calculus of inequality.  Perspectives from the South.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Bethel, N.  (2000).  Navigations:  The fluidity of national identity in the postcolonial Bahamas.  Dissertation, Corpus Christi College.  Cambridge:  University of Cambridge.

Bolland, O.N.  (2001).  The politics of labour in the British Caribbean:  The social origins of authoritarianism and democracy in the labour movement.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Braverman, H.  (1974).  Labor and monopoly capital.  New York:  Monthly Review Press.

*Brereton, B., & Yelvington, K. (Eds.).  (1999).  The colonial Caribbean in transition:  Essays on postemancipation social and cultural history.  Kingston:  Press of University of the West Indies.

Brewer, A.  (1980).  Marxist theories of imperialism:  A critical survey.  New York:  Routledge.

*Brooker, P.  (1998).  Cultural theory:  A glossary.  New York:  Arnold

Brown, S. (Ed.).  (2000).  Spitting in the wind:  Lessons in empowerment from the Caribbean.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Bute, E., & Harmer, H. (Eds.).  (1997).  The black handbook.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Chambers, I.  (1994).  Migrancy, culture, identity.  New York:  Routledge.

Cooper, F., Holt, T., & Scott, R. (2000).  Beyond slavery:  Explorations of race, labor, and citizenship in postemancipation societies.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press.

*Curran, J. & Gurevitch, M. (Eds.).  (1996).  Mass media and society (2nd ed.).  New York:  Arnold.

Curran, J., Morley, D., & Walkerdine, V. (Eds.).  (1996).  Cultural studies and communications.  London: Arnold.

Cvetkovich, A., & Kellner, D. (Eds.).  (1997).  Articulating the global and the local:  Globalization and cultural studies.  Boulder, CO:  Westview.

Darby, P. (Ed.).  (1998).  The fiction of imperialism:  Reading between international relations and postcolonialism.  London:  Cassell.

Demas, W.  (1997).  West Indian development and the deepening and widening of the Caribbean community.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

*Dines, G. & Humez, J.M. (Eds.).  (1995).  Gender, race and class in media:  A text and reader.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

Dunn, H. (Ed.).  (1995).  Globalization, communication and Caribbean identity.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Enloe, C.  (1990).  Bananas, beaches & bases:  Making feminist sense of international politics.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Enzensberger, H.  (1974).  The consciousness industry.  New York:  Seabury Press.

Featherstone, M.  (Ed.).  (1997).  Global culture:  Nationalism, globalization and modernity.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage.

Felsenstein, F. (Ed.).  (1999).   English trader, indian maid:  Representing gender, race and slavery in the new world, an Inkle and Yarico reader.  Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.

Foucault, M.  (1970).  The order of things:  An archaeology of the human sciences.  London:  Tavistock.

Foucault, M.  (1979).  Discipline and punish:  The birth of the prison.  New York:  Vintage Books.

Foucault, M.  (1980).  Power / knowledge:  Selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977) (ed. C. Gordon).  Brighton:  Harvester.

Foucault, M.  (1984).  The Foucault reader (ed. P. Rabinow).  Harmondsworth:  Penguin.

Gellner, E.  (1983).  Nations and nationalism.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press.

Giddens, A, & Turner, J. (Eds.).  (1987).  Social theory today.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press. 

Gramsci, A.   (1981).  Selections from the prison notebooks.   (Q. Hoare and G. N. Smith, Eds. and Trans.).  New York:  International Publishers.

*Grossberg, L., Nelson, C., & Treichler, P. (Eds.).  (1992).  Cultural studies.  New York: Routledge.

Hall, K. (Ed.).  (2000).  Integrate or perish:  Perspectives of leaders of the integration movement. Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Hall, S., & du Gay, P. (Eds.).  (2000).  Questions of cultural identity.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage.

Hobsbawm, E.  (1990).  Nations and nationalism since 1780:  Programme, myth, reality.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Hobsbawm, E., & Ranger, T. (Eds.).  (1983).  The invention of tradition.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Jones, E., et. al.  (1998).  Institutional aspects of West Indian development.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Kings.  A.  (1990).  Urbanism, colonialism and the world-economy.  New York:  Routledge.

King, A. (Ed.).  (1997).  Culture, globalization and the world-system:  Contemporary conditions for the representation of identity.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press.

*Knight, F., & Palmer, C. (Eds.).  (1989).   The modern Caribbean.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press.

Laclau, E., & Mouffe, C.  (1985).  Hegemony and socialist strategy.  London:  Verso.

Lamont, M., & Fournier, M. (Eds.).  (1993).  Cultivating differences:  Symbolic boundaries and the making of inequality.  Chicago:  U. Chicago Press

Lancaster, R., & di Leonardo, M. (Eds.).  (1997).  The gender / sexuality reader.  New York:  Routledge.

Lefebvre, H.  (1971).  Everyday life in the modern world.  New York:  Harper and Row.

Lemert, C. (Ed.).  (1993).  Social theory:  The multicultural and classic readings.  San Francisco:  Westview Press.

Leo-Rhynie, E., Bailey, B., & Barrow, C. (Eds.).  (1997).  Gender:  A Caribbean Mult-disciplinary Perspective.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Marx, K., & Engels, F.  (1976).  Collected works.  New York:  International Publishers.

Mattelart, A.  (1979).  Multinational corporations and the control of culture:  The ideological apparatuses of imperialism.  Brighton:  Harvester Wheatsheaf.

McClintock, A., Mufti, A., & Shohat, E. (Eds.).  (1997).  Danerous liasons:  Gender, nation, and postcolonial perspectives.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press.

McRobbie, A. (Ed.).  (1997).  Back to reality? Social experience and cultural studies.  Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Memmi, A.  (1990).  The colonizer and the colonized.  London:  Earthscan.

Minh-ha, T.  (1989).  Women, native, other.  Writing postcoloniality and feminism.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.

Momsen, J. (Ed.).  (1993).  Women and change in the Caribbean.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Mongia, P. (Ed.).  (1997). Contemporary postcolonial theory.  New York:  Arnold.

Morley, D., & Robbins, K.  (1995).  Spaces of identity.  New York:  Routledge.

Mosco, V.  (1996).  The political economy of communication.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage.

Nelson, C., & Grossberg, L. (Eds.).  (1988).  Marxism and the interpretation of culture.  Basingstoke:  Macmillan Education.

Nicholson, L., & Seidman, S. (Eds.).  (1995).  Social postmodernism:  Beyond identity politics.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

*Nintz, S., & Price, S. (Eds.).  (1985).  Caribbean contours.  London:  Johns Hopkins Press.

Osterhammel, J.  (1997).  Colonialism:  A theoretical overview.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Pattullo, P.  (1996).  Last resorts:  The cost of tourism in the Caribbean.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

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Poulantzas, N.  (1974).  Political power and social classes.  London:  N L B.

Prakash, G. (Ed.).  (1995).  After colonialism:  Imperial histories and postcolonial displacements.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.

Renda, M.  (2001).  Taking Haiti: Military occupation and the culture of U.S. imperialism, 1915-1940.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

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Sheller, M.  (2000).  Democracy after slavery: Black publics and peasant radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica.   Warwick: Macmillan, Warwick University Caribbean Series.

Shepherd, V., & Beckles, H. (Eds.).  (1999).  Caribbean slavery in the Atlantic world (2nd ed.).  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

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*Storey, J. (Ed.).  (1996).  What is cultural studies?  A reader.  London: Arnold.

Storey, J.  (1997).  An introduction to cultural theory and popular culture (2nd ed).  London: Prentice Hall.

Storey, J. (Ed.).  (1998).  Cultural theory and popular culture: A reader. Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

*Storey, J.  (1999).  Cultural consumption and everyday life.  London:  Prentice Hall.

Thompson, A.  (1997).  The haunting past:  Politics, economics and race in Caribbean life.  Kingston:  Ian Randle.

Tomlinson, J.  (1991).  Cultural imperialism.  London:  Pinter.

Thompson, K.  (Ed.).  (1997).  Media and cultural regulation.  London:  Sage.

Wallerstein, I.  (1979).  The capitalist world-economy.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Warner, M. (Ed.).  (1993).  Fear of a queer planet:  Queer politics and social theory.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press.

Werbner, P., & Modood, T. (Eds.).  (1997).  Debating cultural hybridity:  Multi-cultural identities and the politics of anti-racism.  London:  Zed Books.

Wickham, P. et. al. (1998).  Elements of regional integration:  The way forward.  Kingston:  Ian Randle. 

Williams, P., & Chrisman, L. (Eds.).  (1994).  Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory:  A reader.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

*Williams, R. (1958).  Culture and society.  Harmondsworth, UK:  Penguin.

*Williams, R.  (1983).  Keywords:  A vocabularly of culture and society.  London:  Fontana.

Wilson, R., & Dissanayake, W.  (1996).  Global/local:  Cultural production and the transnational imaginary.  Durham, NC:  Duke University Press.

Woodward, K.  (Ed.).  (1997).   Identity and difference.  London:  Sage.

 

JOURNALS

 

Canadian Journal of Communications

*The Canadian Journal of African Studies

The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies           

*Caribbean Geography

Critical Inquiry                                     

Critical Studies in Mass Communications

Cultural Logic                                                  

Cultural Studies   

Culture, Theory and Critique  

International Journal of Cultural Studies

*Journal of Caribbean History

*Journal of Caribbean Studies

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies

Media, Culture and Society

Nepantla

New Left Review

Postmodern Culture

*Small Axe

Social Text

Theory, Culture and Society

Wadabagei

*Yinna

 

Note:  * indicates titles currently held by the COB library.

            Order requests for other titles will be submitted upon approval by the Academic Board.

 

WEBSITES

 

http://www.theory.org.uk/                                 Media, Gender, Identity Theory

http://www.popcultures.com/                            Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center

http://www.culturalstudies.net/               The New Cultural Studies Central

http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/theory/               Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Readings

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/theory.html    Voice of the Shuttle

http://www.tiac.net/users/thaslett/                      Black Cultural Studies Site

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/                         Social Sciences Information Gateway

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7364/CS_pages_phII.html  The Institute, Cult. Stud. Resources

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/culturalStudies.html  Cultural Studies Resources

http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/  Marxists Internet Archive

http://www.towson.edu/~vanfoss/rgc.htm          The Intersection of Sex, Race and Class

http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Library/C_Studies.html  Caribbean Studies References

http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-blk4.htm   Caribbean Studies

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/caribbean/caribov.html  The Caribbean, A PoCo Overview

http://www.fgcu.edu/csa2001/aboutcsa.html      Caribbean Studies Association

http://www.Caribbean-Reporter.com/               Caribbean Reporter

 

LISTSERVS

 

caribbean-studies@jiscmail.ac.uk          Caribbean Studies Listserv

cultstud-l@lists.acomp.usf.edu  CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies