Matthew Sparke

Matthew Sparke is a Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of "In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State" (Minneapolis: 2005), and "Introduction to Globalization" (Oxford: 2012) and has published widely on topics relating to globalization, global health, governance and mapping. With Steve Gloyd, he teaches the core gateway class into global health for undergraduates at UW: Introduction to Global Health (GH 101, GEOG 180, SIS 180). He is currently working on a book on Global Health and Globalization that examines how different ways of understanding globalization shape different approaches to implementing and evaluating global health policies.
More info: http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/

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Global Markets and Personal Impacts (edX)

This globalization course focuses on the ways market-led macro-economic reforms associated with globalization (such as free trade agreements and privatization initiatives) have come together with much more micro innovations in how personal behavior is organized by market forces (rethinking education as a personal investment practice, for example, or outsourcing [...]