The Politics of Place and Space

General data

Course ID:	3102-FPPS
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.7 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	The Politics of Place and Space
Name in Polish:	The Politics of Place and Space
Organizational unit:	Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Moduł L5: Antropologia polityczna i ekonomiczna Courses in foreign languages
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	optional courses
Short description:	This course explores the politics of place and space, with a particular focus on the transformation of cities and urban conflicts. It examines these topics through a variety of theoretical approaches in anthropology and human geography, as well as from diverse ethnographic perspectives. It covers topics that range from modernist city-planning to mundane place-making, and from appropriation of space to the right to the city and urban insurgency. The course emphasizes the mutually constitutive relationships between place, space, and the political. It highlights spatiality and place as crucial dimensions of power and resistance in the city. It also stresses the significance of ethnography as a method for tracing the political in unlikely locations.
Full description:	This course explores the politics of place and space, with a particular focus on the transformation of cities and urban conflicts. It examines these topics through a variety of theoretical approaches in anthropology and human geography, as well as from diverse ethnographic perspectives. It covers topics that range from modernist city-planning to mundane place-making, and from appropriation of space to the right to the city and urban insurgency. The course emphasizes the mutually constitutive relationships between place, space, and the political. It highlights spatiality and place as crucial dimensions of power and resistance in the city. It also stresses the significance of ethnography as a method for tracing the political in unlikely locations.
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Po ukończeniu zajęć studenci potrafią: - analitycznie myśleć i dokonywać obserwacji i krytyki przemian społeczno-kulturowych - posługiwać się wybranym językiem obcym na poziomie B2+ Europejskiego Systemu Opisu Kształcenia Językowego - posługiwać się specjalistyczną terminologią z zakresu etnologii i antropologii kulturowej w języku obcym
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Course essay (term paper) of 2,500 words. Students will be asked to submit 250-word abstracts of their prospective essays mid-semester. Students are free to pick a topic of their choice, as long as it speaks to the overall theme of the course. The essays should also engage with at least selected readings discussed during the semester, plus any other relevant literature (which the students will be expected to identify). In addition, students will have the opportunity to volunteer to make a presentation on one of the required readings during the semester. A successful presentation equals half a grade up on the final score.

This course is not currently offered.

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