Some scholars argue that we are experiencing a shift from a national to a global imaginary, with significant implications for how political ideologies are understood. Write an essay that discusses how FIVE of the ideologies, including at least ONE of the final three ideologies, we have studied address processes of globalization. In addition to nationalism/ globalization, your essay should consider three traditional ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, fascism) and one more contemporary ideology (feminisms OR environmentalism/ ecology). What role does globalization play in each of these ideologies? Can globalization be incorporated in existing ideologies? Or does it require a new understanding of political ideology? Might it even render the concept of ideology obsolete?
This is the final exam. 5-7 page, typed, double-spaced essay.
*For citations to works on our shared syllabus, a page number in parentheses at the end of the relevant sentence suffices. Chicago Style.
Sources: try to use these and avoid outside sources. If you do use outside sources cite them in the footnote.
*You don’t have to use all of these, just including all our readings to assist you.
Liberalism:
Reading: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, chs. 1 & 2.
https://b-ok.cc/book/815832/f6dd57
Read: Locke, Treatise of Civil Government, ch. 2, par. 4-7; ch. 3, par. 16-20; ch. 5, par. 26-51.
https://b-ok.cc/book/836995/c0c472
[Be sure to read the 2nd Treatise, not the 1st Treatise]
Read: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, ch. 1.
https://b-ok.cc/book/1185880/5bfb71
Conservatism:
Reading: Michael Oakeshott, On Being Conservative,
Read: Alan Bloom, The Democratization of the University, second of two essays at
https://b-ok.cc/book/2491105/3ab04c
Read: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, selections from Burke here —
https://b-ok.cc/book/1065411/69206b
Socalism, Communism, Anarchism:
Read: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
Read: V.I. Lenin, State and Revolution, ch. 5,
https://b-ok.cc/book/1179292/c19c98
Read: Emma Goldman: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1910s/anarchism.htm
Read: Petyr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid, introduction, ch. 7, conclusion,
https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/Kropotkin/Mutual%20Aid.pdf?bot_test=1
Starhawk, How we really shut down the WTO,
Faccism:
Read: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, selections from Hitler here —
https://b-ok.cc/book/1065411/69206b
Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted
Totalitarianism, ch. 1,
https://b-ok.cc/book/1103891/f7c82d
Feminism:
Read: Betty Freidan, Our Revolution is Unique and Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman
https://b-ok.cc/book/1065411/69206b
Read: Gloria Anzaldua, La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness in
https://b-ok.cc/book/858636/1d4a91
Environmentalism and Ecology:
Read: Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, ch. 10
https://ifarus.com/earth-the-balance-albert-gore
Read: Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman, Defending the Earth,
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-and-dave-foreman-defending-theearth-a-debate
Read: Vandana Shiva, Everything I needed to know I learned from the forest,
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/nature/2019/05/03/vandana-shiva-seed-saving-forestbiodiversity/
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, The Death of Environmentalism
https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/the-death-of-environmentalism
Nationalism and Globalization:
Read: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism,
https://b-ok.cc/book/733577/18806c
Read: Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld,
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1992/03/jihad-vs-mcworld/303882/
Read: Edward Said, Origins of Terrorism in Culture and Resistance,
https://bok.cc/book/978734/1a5cd0
To evaluate your essays, I will use the following criteria:
Does the essay demonstrate knowledge of the material?
Does the essay make a coherent argument with supporting evidence?
Is the essay organized well?
Does the essay say something interesting in response to the question?
Did the author proofread and correct for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style?
Did the author provide a page number in parentheses when quoting sources on the syllabus and a complete footnote for any additional sources?
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