The required readings for next week (October 3-7) are Karl Polanyi (1957) “The economy as instituted process,” in Trade and market in the early empires: Economies in history and theory, eds. K. Polanyi, C. M. Arensberg, and H. W. Pearson. New York: Free Press, 243-270; Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers (1984) “Beyond the economistic fallacy: The holistic science of Karl Polanyi,” in T. Skocpol (ed) Vision and method in historical sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47-84; Michael Burawoy (2003) “For a sociological Marxism: The complementary convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi” Politics & Society, 31, 193-261; Martin Hess (2004) “Spatial relationships: towards a reconceptualization of embeddedness” Progress in Human Geography, 28, 165-86.

The required readings for next week (October 3-7) are
Neal, J. (2003). A People’s History of the Vietnam War (New York and London: The New Press): 8-42; Bello, W. (2007). Walden Bello Presents Ho Chi Minh, Down With Colonialism (London and New York: Verso): ix-xliv. Other information for the course is available at www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/geog484.

The required reading for next week (October 3-7) is Leften Stavrianos, “India Enters the Third World,” in Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age (New York: William Morrow, 1981), pp 230-252. Other information for the course is available at www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/geog121. A reminder that I will not be in on Friday 7 October. We will have an in-class review session for the mid-term exam, run by your TAs. I will not have an office hour that day but will have my usual hours on Monday 3 October (2-4 PM) and will have an additional hour on Wednesday 5 October from 10:30-11:30 AM.

During Winter I 2011-2012 I am teaching three courses: Geography, Globalization, and Modernity I (GEOG 121), Geography of Southeast Asia (GEOG 484), and Political Economy (GEOG 560A, co-taught with Trevor Barnes).