Regional Studies (Ethnography): Africa (KSK_250)
Objective
Students who complete this course successfully:
- have specialized and interdisciplinary general knowledge of ‘Africa’ as a region, concept and continent and know the potentials, but also the limits of regional analysis and an area-studies approach.
- can understand, explain and apply the holistic analytical approach of ethnography when dealing with specific case studies and examples.
- are able to articulate a nuanced understanding of knowledge politics and power dynamics underlying different, and contested, representations of Africa.
- can critically assess the role historical factors, socio-cultural dynamics, changing politico-economic systems and international interventions have played in shaping African life worlds today.
- display strengthened ability to critically read, analyse and discuss ethnographies based on research in Africa.
Prerequisites
General knowledge in social sciences. English language (reading, writing, speaking).