Readings for today
- Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Robin D. G. Kelley, "Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World," African Studies Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, Special Issue on the Diaspora (Apr., 2000), pp. 11-45.
- Adria Imada “Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits through the American Empire,” American Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2004): 111-149.
For further reading and research
- Doreen Massey, "A Global Sense of Place."
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (excerpt)
- Richa Nagar, Victoria Lawson, Linda McDowell and Susan Hanson, "Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization," Economic Geography, Vol. 78, No. 3 (2002): 257-284.
- Paul Gilroy, "Route Work, the Black Atlantic, and the Politics of Exile," in The Post-Colonial Question (Chapter 2).
- Adria Imada, “The Army Learns to Luau: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in Hawai'i,” Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2008): 329-361.
- Stuart Hall, "Culture, Community, Nation," Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, October 1993, pp. 349-363.
- Stuart Hall, "Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad," Small Axe #6, 1999, pp. 1-18.
- Stuart Hall, "Whose Heritage? Un-settling 'The Heritage', Re-imagining the Post-Nation," Third Text, Vol. 13, Issue 49, Winter 1999, pp. 3-13.
- Saskia Sassen, "Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization," Public Culture, 12.1, 2000, 215-232.
- Saskia Sassen, "Globalization or denationalization?," Review of International Political Economy, Feb 2003, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 1-22.
- Saskia Sassen, "Local Actors in Global Politics," Current Sociology, 2004, Vol. 52, Iss. 4, pp. 649-670.
- An interview with Saskia Sassen from 2000.
- John Urry, "Globalising the Tourist Gaze."
- Arjun Appadurai, "Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination," Public Culture, 12.1, 2000, pp. 1-19.