21F 830 Global Culture: Suggested Project Topics

• Tourism

  • Ethnotourism
    
  • Travel literature: guidebooks, in-flight magazines, promotional brochures, travel writing

• Broadcast media

  • The International Channel
    
  • Diaspora TV: ethnic cable TV shows, Univisión, etc.
    
  • Satellite TV in different global contexts (e.g. India, South East Asia)
    
  • Radio (e.g. Native American radio stations)
    
  • BBC World Service (radio and TV)

• Film/Video

  • Ethnographic documentary film
    
  • "World Cinema" (films such as Baraka, Powaqaatsi, Sans Soleil)
    
  • Indigenous media production (e.g. Brazil, Australia, US/Canada)
    
  • Non-Western film industries in relation to Western ones (e.g. India, Brazil, China, Hong Kong)

• Music

  • World music: local/global production and consumption

• Sexual Politics

  • Sex tourism (e.g. Thailand)
    
  • Global prostitution networks
    
  • Mail-order brides

• Nature Environment

  • National Geographic magazine/videos
    
  • Rain forests and commodity culture
    
  • Discovery Channel
    
  • Animal diasporas (global circulation of animals in zoos, wildlife parks, etc.)

• Community

  • Study of a local immigrant community in Boston/Cambridge (Haitian, Brazilian, or other)

• Sport

  • Sports such as soccer and cricket in a global context; modifications of sports in different local contexts; issues of nationality (flexibility of definitions of nationality for participation in national sports teams).