Political ecology|Fishers|Fisheries|Environmental Change|Development|Anthropology of Food

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This course touches on themes in political ecology, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of food and the anthropology of development...

Fishers and Fisheries Anthropology, Aquatic Resources and Development (ANTH0065)

Anthropology|Material and Visual Culture|Social Anthropology

THEORY|SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY|MATERIAL CULTURE

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This module engages the past, present, and future of social anthropology and material culture studies. It is divided into two sections: firstly...

Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture (ANTH0013)

The aim of this module is to introduce students to major contemporary political issues through the lens of political theory. Students will become familiar with...

Understanding Politics I: The Big Questions in Contemporary Europe (SESS0016)

The aim of this module is to introduce students to major contemporary political issues through the lens of political theory. Students will become familiar with some of the main lines of political conflict in contemporary European and global politics and with contending theoretical approaches to them. Through completing the written coursework requirement students will gain facility in theoretical analysis and familiarity with the standards of academic writing at the university level.

This module will focus in depth on the first volume of the novel which perhaps more than any other work dominated French literature in the twentieth century,...

Dominating Texts: Literary Power Relations in 20th Century Writing (FREN0025)

This module will focus in depth on the first volume of the novel which perhaps more than any other work dominated French literature in the twentieth century, Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, before studying texts by a number of other important writers who wrote in Proust’s wake. Domination inevitably implies a power struggle; at the heart of the questions the module will explore is the relationship between literature and power. By means of close textual analysis, we shall examine how the prescribed texts all thematise domination in some form, notably with regard to social and sexual relations. Sometimes they universalise it, suggesting that intersubjective relations are necessarily hierarchical; sometimes they explore the possibility of subverting it, beckoning towards a mode of relation that need not involve the submission of one element to another, positing the existence of a non-subordinating dominance, a dominance that does not dominate. The texts also raise questions of intertextual domination: what makes for a specifically literary power? is beauty a form of power? does a very powerful text overshadow others, or on the contrary call them into being in response to its appeal? Finally, the seminars will discuss the power relationship between reader and text: is a powerful text precisely one that can never be mastered? And, if reading is not an exercise in domination, what is it? One of a series of final-year options which provide a close study of French literary political and philosophical texts.