Courses Handbook 2009

311004 (v.1) Markets, States and Communities in the 21st Century 228


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Processes of market enclosure associated with contemporary globilisation. Key elements of this period are examined including changes in citizenship, international governance and the role of finance capital. The work of key contemporary and classical thinkers on commodification and markets are considered. Case studies of market enclosure including privatisation and the extension of intellectual property rights are analysed. Students will be encouraged to think creatively and reflectively within a disciplinary framework. This unit can be taken in both the Politics and International Relations and Sociology discipline majors.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090101 Political Science
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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