Topic: Do you agree that the phenomena of globalisation has led to greater openness and tolerance for a divergent of cultural experiences?

Order Description
Choose a particular consumption context (or combinations thereof) that you believe serves as an example of how global forces influence (or not) the ‘order of human life’you’re your essay, you should highlight any global forces that you think are (or were) particularly active in shaping the consumption activity you will discuss. For your essay, you should draw upon and consider the thesis of cultural homogenisation, cosmopolitanism and the global – local dialectics to discuss the socio-cultural consequences of globalisation.
– content bases on TOURISM.

Key Theories and Suggestions (please note the below are provisional suggestions)
• Chris Shilling (1993): The Body as Project
• Featherstone (1982): The Body in Consumer Culture
• Michel Foucault: The Disciplined Body and The Technology of the Self
• Judith Butler (1993): Gender Trouble
• Judith Butler (1990): Bodies that Matters
• Adrienne Rich (1980): Compulsory Heteronormativity
• Susan Bordo (1993): The Unbearable Weight
• The Birmingham School of Subculture
• Maffesoli (1996): Tribal Identity
• Sarah Thornton (1995): Subcultural Capital
• Pierre Bourdieu (1984): The Body as Cultural Capital
• Clive Seale (2000): The Commoditization of the Body
• Merleau-Ponty (1945/2002): The Phenomenogical Body
• Iris Marion Young (1990): The Lived Body of Femininity
• Homi Bhaba: The Location of Culture
• Edward Said (1978): Orientalism
• Paul Gilroy: Diapora and Race
• Donna Haraway: Posthumanism
• Hannerz (1990, 2005): Cosmopolitanism
• John Tomlinson (2003): Globalisation and Culture
• George Ritzer (2006): The McDonalisation of Society
• Adorno and Horkheimer (1944/2000): The Culture Industry
• Arjun Appadurai (1990): Global ‘Scapes’
• Arjun Appadurai (1988): Indigenization
• Daniel Miller (1995): Worlds apart: Modernity through the prism of the local
• Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider (2006). Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social
sciences
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The following points may help you to produce a good piece of work:
• You must address the question asked and not try to re-define, ‘twist it round’, or state
it in more general terms -to allow you to write about something else. In order to remind
yourself of this, always put the question addressed at the beginning of your work. ‘Not
answering the question’ will result in a significant loss of marks.
• You must demonstrate ability to synthesize key theories and concepts and develop
key themes and/or arguments.
• Your essay must be supported by illustrative examples and/or case studies. You are
allowed to use supporting media and/or materials (such as images, sound and other medium).
• Being asked to discuss something is not the same as being asked to list statements. A
discussion will consider alternative points of view and your own thinking and evaluation
should be apparent in the discussion of the topic.
• Your essay must be properly referenced:
• only sources referred to specifically in the text of your answer should be included
in the bibliography;
• all sources (including those for any numeric examples used) should be
acknowledged;
• there should be no references in your answer to sources which are not in your
bibliography BUT if you have not consulted the reference directly yourself you
should indicate in the text of your answer the secondary source from which is
comes. It is this secondary source that should be in your bibliography.
• Listing a reference in the bibliography does not make it acceptable to copy sections of
the book into your answer unless it is explicitly stated as a quotation. You must summarise
the points in your own words. Plagiarism is regarded as a most serious instance of academic
misconduct and is dealt with accordingly.
• It is expected that you will consult academic and professional journals as well as
textbooks. Many textbooks cover much the same information so consulting many different
textbooks only results to duplicating this information. Textbooks tend not to have very up to
date content and journal sources are vital for this.