Students:Globalisation 2010/2011 Case Studies

What is Globalization?

• Introduction: Globalization on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Globalization in brief: The Levin Institute educational materials (American perspective)
• Globalisation in depth: Globalisation 2009/2010 Themes (educational materials by the Charles University - selected topics)

Write it yourselves!

Writing assistant

• Blank page template with relevant instructions
• Reading manual
• Writing manual
• Case study development

Work with resources - practical tools

• Use e.g. at Google scholar to find reliable resources
  • This is not the only possibility, you can use any other search engine, see the List of academic databases and search engines!
  • Every library has its own information retrieval system (Charles University students can use "Central Search Tool"
• Use Zotero for management of your citations with Zotero (helps you save the citation in required format)
  • There are many other available softwares, see the List of reference management software!
• Assess quality of your resources (use e.g. Internet Detective)!

Examples for your work

• 2008/2009 student themes
• 2009/2010 student themes
  • Is globalisation a neutral process? - introductory thesis & discussion with external expert
  • Hypothetical case study - Isoman copper mine
  • Globalisation Risks and Opportunities handbook
• 2010/2011 student case studies - only to be filled in!

Technical help

• Log in / create account - to create new account, click on link "Create one"
• Starting a new Page
• Editing
• Structure of the page use it when constructing your theme!

Practical warning!!!

Protect yourself from loosing your work! Do not edit the page for too long without saving it, or work on the Word document and copy it to the Wiki space only consequently. The page can expire while you are working on it :-(

Other sources

• EU Perspective: European Commission sustainable development policies and European Council´s documents
• Held, D., McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D., Perraton, J. (1999) What is Globalization? [online] [cit 2010-11-12] available from [http://www.polity.co.uk/global/whatisglobalization.asp. Basic outline of globalization principles and effects, although rather outdated
• Lechner, F. et al. (2001) The Globalization website. [online] [cit 2010-11-12] available from [http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/. Excellent resource for hyperlinks to issues, theories and especially news from various sources.