Bret Benjamin
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.
Transnational Cultural Studies; Globalization, Anti-globalization, and Social Movements; Cultural approaches to Science and Technology; Postcolonial Studies.
Humanities 340
442-4054
bret@albany.edu
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Bret Benjamin joined the University at Albany faculty in 2000. He is the author of several books about computers and pedagogy including Connections: A Guide to Online Writing. His most recent work is in transnational cultural studies, studying in particular various aspects of globalization and alter-globalization social movements. His current book project, Invested Interests: Culture, Capital and the World Bank, develops a cultural critique of the World Bank. The project argues that the Bank must be understood as a cultural institution-an institution that not only affects global cultures, but also one that, given its role in the post-war mapping and remapping of the globe, has been intimately bound up in the construction of "culture" as a theoretical category, and "cultural studies" as an academic discipline. Contrary to assessments of the Bank that figure the institution as a metonymic stand-in for "globalization," this book reads the Bank as a protean institution that has undergone a series of transformations during its sixty-year history, in which we can see the World Bank maneuvering to contain resistance and manage crises.
Benjamin's full list of publications as well as links to his class websites and authored software are available at http://www.albany.edu/~bret.
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