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PAPER 3

Our final Global Writing Seminar assignment requires us to write an essay that
uses personal observations to consider any of the arguments weve read in class
regarding the concept of the global city.

For my paper, Ive chosen to mix my observations of

_________________________________________________________ (tell us
something about what you observed) with a case study material from
________________ (tell us where your case study is from.) Briefly,
_______________________________ (give us a quick sense of what your case study is
about.)

Ive chosen my case study because it allows me a useful way to consider the
arguments that the global city functions as __________________ and
__________________(choose from the concepts listideally ones that provide a sort of
tension you can riff off in your paper.)

To supplement these generalized arguments about global cities, Ill also be

considering theoretical material on ___________________ (name a theory
remember when we did the exercise about this with the grid?) to help me think more
deeply about my specific case study. Right now, my plan is to work with the text
___________________________ (title of a scholarly book chapter or journal article)
from __________________ (name author.) I chose this text because
___________________________ (tell us why.)

As a global studies student, Im committed to producing scholarship that thinks

critically about the advantages and pitfalls of the cosmopolitan perspective. For
this paper, Im most interested in how my own questions, research and writing
intersects with notions of cosmopolitanism as _____________________ and
_______________________ (choose from the concepts listagain, try for some tension,
as this will allow you room for thinking in your paper.)

Right now, Ill probably be writing this paper using a _________________ (choose:
traditional or creative) format.
_________
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Only for creative format people:

The format Im most interested in working with is:
Letter
Memoir
Photo essay
Map/Guidebook with process document
Screenplay treatment
Video with process document
Other

CONCEPT MAP FOR PAPER 2

Global Studies
Engaged with the meaning of global flows (scapes)
Engaged with the consequences of globalization (including neoliberalism)
Engaged with the nature of global citizenship (aka cosmopolitanism)
Global Flows
Ethnoscapes
Ideoscapes
Mediascapes
Technoscapes
financescapes

Globalization
as disintegration of state and national boundaries
as speed and lowered cost of movement between places
as technological encroachment on the everyday
as increased connectedness
as fluid, flexible, mobile space with no boundaries
as dominance of neoliberalist ideologies

Neoliberalism
As transfer of publicly maintained goods, land and services into private
hands (privatization)
As emoval or lessening of government regulations from financial sectors
(deregulation)
As advocacy for corporate legal protections previously held by humans
(corps are people)
As creation of areas in developing nations where national law doesnt
apply (free trade zones)
As trategic deployment of corporate branding upon global landscape
(McDonaldization)

Global City
as international business and financial center
as site for direct transactions with world markets that take place without
govt. inspection
as locale for ideology of open space
as site of social mobility
as site of psychological liberation
as glamour zone
as a relationship between surplus and population growth
as site of compression
as culture of poverty
as marker of decline of community
as site of Imagineering
as locus for cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism
cosmopolitanism as response to globalization
cosmopolitanism as a response to neoliberalism
cosmopolitanism as mode for managing cultural difference
cosmopolitanism as a mode of consumerism
cosmopolitanism as accumulation of cultural capital
cosmopolitanism as negotiation of social capital
vulgar cosmopolitanism
cosmopolitanism and the cultural appropriation debates
everyday/ordinary cosmopolitanism
cosmopolitanism from below

Walking the Global City as Cosmopolitan Practice

As connected to history and ideology of Baudellairian flaneur
As connected to history and ideology of the flaneuse
As connected to notions of montage method where history, perspective
and/or genre mix
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Writing as Cosmopolitan Writing

As conversation
As obligation
As ethics
As imagination
As questioning