ANTB20 Final Study Guide UTSC

ANTB20: Culture, Politics and Globalization

FINAL Test Guidelines

Duration 2 hours

No Aids Allowed

Exam Format:

The exam will have four sections:

1.     10 fill in the blank, worth 1 point each = 10 points

2.     6 key concept comprehension questions, worth 5 points each = 30 points

3.     2 medium length integration questions, worth 10 points each = 20 points

4.     2 long answer questions, worth 20 points each = 40 point

How to Use this Guide:

Do not use this guide to memorize definitions. That will mostly be a waste of your time. Use this guide to direct your studying and your readings. You should be able to recognize the concepts listed below, and discuss who used them and why they are important and relevant to the course material. How are these concepts related to each other? For example, I will NOT ask you what the definition is for globalization, but I will ask you about how globalization is experienced in Togo. 

If I spent time discussing it in class, then it’s important. The more time I spent discussing it, the more important it is.

Time Management is important to successfully write this exam. Remember that the long answer questions are worth the majority (40%) of your grade.

Part One

FILL IN THE BLANK

Answer the 10 questions below.

Exam Sample Question

(1)  Appadurai uses the idea of “scapes” to talk about the different dimensions of globalization. _________ refers to the movement of people around the world.

SHORT ANSWER

Answer the 6 questions below. One paragraph should suffice for each answer. Do not answer using bullet point form. 5 points each = 30 points

Exam Sample Question:

(1)  What was the Enclosures Act?

Part Two

MEDIUM-LENGTH ANSWER

Answer the 2 questions below. Three to four paragraphs should suffice for each answer. Do not answer using bullet point form. 10 points each = 20 points

Exam Sample Question:

1.     Piot argues that the end of the Cold War in 1989 resulted in seismic social, political and economic changes for Togo. Discuss using examples from Nostalgia for the Future.

Part Three

LONG ANSWER

Answer the 2 questions below. One to two pages should suffice for each answer.

20 points each = 40 points

Exam Sample Question:

(1)  Globalization often refers to the intensifying movement of ideas, objects and people around the world in the last century. Discuss the problems with this definition using examples from the readings, lectures and films shown in class.

Key Terms:

Globalization

Commodity

Commodity Phase

Commodity Candidacy

Commodity Ecumene

The Social Life of Things

Regimes of Value

Smallholder Coffee

Coffee Production

Labour

Neoliberal Coffee

The International Coffee Agreement

Auna

Kore

Middlemen

Purosa Valley Coffee Cooperative

The Third Space

Certification Schemes (Organic/Fair Trade)

The Commodity Fetish

Personhood

Sonoran Desert

Prevention through Deterrence

The Hybrid Collectif

Operation Streamline

ATEP

Transnational Family Networks

Dollar Doldrums (the Pain of Dollars)

Bare Life

Sovereignty

NAFTA

Photoethnography

State of Exception

Entrepreneurial Border Politics

Layups

Deportation

Kangaroo Courts

Memo and Lucho

Maricela

Christian

Jose

Ethnographic methods and mobile objects/people

Human Rights/Humanitariansm

Ethnographic methods and gendered positionality

Groupos Beta

Juan de Bosco

Actants

Border Surveillance (Techniques and personel)

Remittances

COUNTRIES: Togo, PNG, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, Malawi, Turkey, Syria, Greece, Ghana, Honduras, Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Macedonia

Material Covered on Exam

All of the readings from the midterm to the last day of class.

Films/Podcasts: Human Flow, 4.1Miles, Bodies on the Border, Black Gold, Maquilopolis (first 15minutes), Chocolate makes the world go round