Introducing the Anthropology of Globalisation. In this course we will learn the fundamental concepts anthropologists and other social scientists use to make sense of globalisation's exciting new cultural and social forms and its not so exciting new forms of exploitation. The focus will be on the practical and critical application of these concepts to some hot global issues:

• global consumption  the social relations in our clothes -- affluenza, overconsumption and fair-trade - us as consumers: identity and taste - eating the west in asia (and vice versa) - global media flows
• global cities  virtual communities - tourism - multiculturalism and  migration -  the end of suburbia? urban design and mobility  - sport and global spectacle

This course emphasizes flexible learning and independent small group research projects and presentations. Students in previous years have done research on topics such as Fairtrade cocoa and coffee, soldiers blogging from the front line in Iraq, eating McDonald's in India, college drinking culture and tastes in "ethnic eating" in Canberra.

1 hour lecture, one to two hours of group work (timing is flexible for this) and one hour of tutorial per week

Eriksen, T.H., 2007 Globalization: The Key Concepts,  Berg: Oxford and New York.