Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
The Anthropology of Globalisation
Course Code
SZF_297
Branch of Science
Political science
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Political Science
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Mārtiņš Daugulis
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
SZF, Kuldigas Street 9C, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To familiarise participants of the course with the advantages of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of political processes, the interspace of political science and social anthropology.
Preliminary Knowledge
Basic knowledge of politics.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students find their way in social anthropology directions and methods in conjunction with globalisation processes and politics.
Skills
1.Students use social anthropology methods in the analysis of political processes.
Competences
1.Students are able to flexibly and dynamically to apply social anthropology knowledge and skills in an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of politics and globalisation processes.
Assessment
Individual work
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1.
Own field work and its reflection in the report |
50.00% from total grade
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10 points
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Fieldwork – analysis of micropolitics. The report reflects fieldwork data according to the plan developed by the student in conjunction with self-assessment criteria. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. |
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Examination
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Final examination |
50.00% from total grade
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10 points
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Detailed progress and requirements are described in E-studies. |
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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2
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Topics
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Social anthropology – dimensions and methods of analysis
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Social anthropology – dimensions and methods of analysis
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Seminar: “Silent voices” and “dark anthropology” – methods and ethics
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Religion, state and politics in the context of globalisation
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Religion, state and politics in the context of globalisation
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Seminar: Global city and global state
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Seminar: Global city and global state
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Global economy and consumer society: principles of movement and challenges thereof
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Global economy and consumer society: principles of movement and challenges thereof
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Seminar: Reciprocity in the global world
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Seminar: Reciprocity in the global world
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Biopower and biopolitics: body and power
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Seminar: Global biosociety
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Seminar: Bringing microscale to macropicture – fieldwork and conclusions
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Seminar: Bringing microscale to macropicture – fieldwork and conclusions
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Consultation
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Study room
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Consultation as needed
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Test
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Study room
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Exam
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Keane, Webb. 2014. "Affordances and reflexivity in ethical life: An ethnographic stance". Anthropological theory 14 (1): 3–26. (nav jaunāka izdevuma)
2.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 2020.
3.
Fuko, Mišels. 1995. Patiesība. Vara. Patība. Rīga: Spektrs. (latviešu plūsmai) (nav jaunāka izdevuma)
4.
Scott, James C. 2020. "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. (nav jaunāka izdevuma)