[Peace-discuss] Transnational Seminar with Neil Smith, Friday 5 pm, on Endgame of Globalization, LH 336

[Lisa Chason]

TRANSNATIONAL SEMINARS

 

SOCIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING, GLOBAL STUDIES

 

 



Who

Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York 



What

The Endgame of Globalization


When

Friday, December 3, 5 pm


Where

Lincoln Hall 336


Chair

David Wilson


Paper 

A relevant paper is attached 

 

This announcement is late due to Thanksgiving break. 

The seminar is scheduled at 5 pm due to circumstances. 

 


ABSTRACT


The war in Iraq is broadly explained as a "war on terrorism" by its
supporters and detractors alike.  I argue that instead, once we put the
war into geographical and historical context, a very different picture
emerges. When we take into account the political geography of Iraq's
creation and the episodic history of US global ambition, it becomes
increasingly clear that this war represents an attempt to complete the
work of globalization, a vision of global power first announced in the
late 1970s. If this vision emanates primarily from New York and
Washington it is nonetheless itself global. The war in Iraq explicitly
targets an alternative global vision emanating from the Middle East -- a
triumphalist sense of the endgame of globalization.  Against the
backdrop of earlier efforts at US global ambition, when nationalism
combined with political opposition to became in different ways fatal to
that ambition, failure in Iraq suggests that the endgame of
globalization may come to pass in a much more negative way.  

 

Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he also
directs the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.  He recently won the
LA Times Book Prize for Biography (2003) for his book American Empire:
Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003). He works
on the broad connections between space, social theory and history, and
among his eight books are New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the
Revanchist City (1996) and Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the
Production of Space (1991).  He has been called the "father of
gentrification theory," and is author of more than 140 articles and book
chapters and his work has been translated into ten languages. He has
been awarded Honors for Distinguished Scholarship by the Association of
American Geographers and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and has
held visiting professorships across the world, and he is an organizer of
the International Critical Geography Group.  His newest book is The
Endgame of Globalization (Routledge, 2005).  He also directs a large
Ford Foundation sponsored project to synthesize the work produced in and
around the Ford "Crossing Borders" initiative and an edited volume from
this work has been completed (Creative Destruction: Area Knowledge and
the New Geographies of Empire, with Christian Parenti).  

 

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