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The Anthropology of Globalisation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:05.02.2024 11:46:11
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_200 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics; The Theory of Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Mārtiņš Daugulis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required | ||||||||
| Objective: | To introduce students on advantages of interdisciplinary approach in political analysis: in-between political science and social anthropology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Social anthropology – dimensions of analysis and methods | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Seminar: "Silent voices" and "dark anthropology" – methods and ethics | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Religion, state and politics in the context of globalization | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Seminar: Global city and global state | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The global economy and consumer society: principles of movement and challenges thereof | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Seminar: Reciprocity in the global world | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Bipower and biopolitics: body and power | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Seminar: Global biosociety | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Seminar: Bringing microscale to macropicture – field work and conclusions | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Field work – analysis of micropolitics. In the final paper field work data are reflected accordingly to preliminary research plan and self-evaluation form. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Scale 1-10 accordingly to feed-up approach of self-evaluation | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students are fluent in current social anthropology issues and methods in connection with globalisation and politics. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students can use social anthropology methods for political analysis. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students can apply knowledge and methods of social anthropology for dynamic analysis in the perspective of globalisation and politics. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Keane, Webb. 2014. "Affordances and reflexivity in ethical life: An ethnographic stance". Anthropological theory 14 (1): 3–26. | ||||||||
| 2 | Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1979. | ||||||||
| 3 | Fuko, Mišels. 1995. Patiesība. Vara. Patība. Rīga: Spektrs. | ||||||||
| 4 | Scott, James C. 1998. "Cities, People, and Language". No Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, 53–84. New Haven: Yale University Press. | ||||||||
| 5 | Ortner, Sherry B. 2016. “Dark anthropology and its others Theory since the eighties”. Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (1): 47–73. doi:10.14318/hau6.1.004. | ||||||||
| 6 | Althusser, Louis. 2014. On the Repoduction of Capitalism - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. London: Verso. | ||||||||
