The readings listed below are suggested to accompany the activities in this module.  Because of copyright restrictions and cost, the readings have not been reproduced for the on-line version of this module.  Instead, it is suggested that you access these readings through your library and put them on reserve for your students. Some of the readings, as indicated below, are available in the printed version of the module available through the Association of American Geographers.
 

Unit 1:  Suggested Readings 

•  Alinsky, Saul.  1971.  Excerpts from Rules for radicals: A practical primer for realistic radicals.  New York, NY: Random House.

• Clark, W.C.  1987.  Scale relationships in the interactions of climate, ecosystems, and society. In K. Land and S. Schneider, eds. Forecasting in the social and natural sciences.  Dordrecht:  D. Reidel, pp. 337-378.

• De Tocqueville, Alexis.  1945.  Influence of democracy on the feelings of the Americans.  From Democracy in America.  Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 62-72.

• Meyer, W., D. Gregory, B.L. Turner, and P.F. McDowell.  1992.  The local-global continuum.  In Abler, Marcus, and Olson, eds. Geography’s inner worlds.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 255-279.

• Mueller, John.  1992.   Democracy and Ralph's pretty good grocery: Elections, equality, and the minimal human being.  American Journal of Political Science 36(4): 938-1003.

 Unit 2:  Suggested Readings 

• Garreau, J.  1979.  Nine nations of North America.  The Washington Post, March 4.  Reprinted in Annual editions: Geography 1991/92, G. Pitzl, ed.  Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, pp. 153-159.

• Greider, W.  1995.  The global marketplace: A closet dictator.  In R. Nadar et al., eds.  Who will tell the people?  San Francisco, CA: Earth Island Press, pp. 195-217.
 
• Kaplan, D.  1994.  Two nations in search of a state: Canada’s ambivalent spatial identities.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84(4): 585-606.  (Provided in the printed version of the module.)

• Kennedy, P.  1993.  The future of the nation state.  In Preparing for the twenty-first century.  New York, NY:  Random House, pp. 122-134.

• The Economist.  1993.  Everybody's favorite monsters: A survey of multinationals.  March 27, pp. 5-20.
 
• Maria Mies.  1986.  Housewifization international: Women and the new international division of labour.  In Patriarchy and accumulation on the world scale.  Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, pp. 112-128.
 

• Barber, B.  1992.  Jihad vs. McWorld.  The Atlantic Monthly (March): 53-55 and 58-63.
 
• Dak, T.M.  1989.  Green revolution and social change: Some reflections.  In Green revolution and social change.  Delhi, India: Ajanta Publications, pp. 65-77.
 
• Huke, R. E.  1985.  The green revolution.  Journal of Geography (November/December).  Reprinted in Annual editions: Geography 1991/92.  G. Pitzl, ed.  Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, pp. 20-26.
 
• Stavrianos, L.S.  1981.  Multinational corporations in the Third World: Multinational corporations and the green revolution in the Third World.  In Global rift: The Third World comes of age.  New York, NY: William Morrow, pp. 446-450.
 
•  Gupta, A.  1991.  Bhopal, the forgotten tragedy.  In Ecological nightmares and the management dilemma.  Delhi, India: Ajanta Publications, pp. 1-31.

• Morse, B. and T. Berger.  1992.  Letter to the President and Chapters 1 and 5 from Sardar Sarovar: The report of the independent review.  Ottawa, Canada: Independent Review, pp. xi-xxv, 3-7, and 61-79.
 
• Thukral, E. and M. Sakate.  1992.  Baliraja: A people's alternative.  In E. Thukral, ed.  Big dams, displaced people: Rivers of sorrow, rivers of change.  New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, pp. 143-154.
 
• Wysham, D.  1995.  Ten-to-one against: Costing people’s lives for climate change.  The Ecologist 24(6): 204-206.

Unit 4:  Suggested Readings 

• French, H.  1995.  Forging a new global partnership.  In S. Schmidt, ed.  The state of the world.  London: Earthscan, pp. 170-189.
 
• Gaudiani, Claire L. 1995. Global social development: Higher education’s next moral commitment.  Educational Record 76(1): 7-13.
 
• Kaplan, R.  1994.  The coming anarchy.  The Atlantic Monthly (February): 44-76.
 
• Kaslow, A. and G. Moffett.  1995.  Refugees without a refuge: US starts to pull up drawbridge.  The Christian Science Monitor (March 1): 1 and 10-11.
 
• Strauss, W.  1991.  Generations: The history of America’s future (1584-2069).  New York, NY: Quill.
 
• Strieber, W. And J. Kunetka.  1986.  Nature’s end.  New York, NY: Warner Books.