Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Regional ethnography: Central Europe
Course Code
KSK_285
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Social Anthropology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Ieva Puzo
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
1) Familiarizing students to current debates in the anthropology of Central-Eastern Europe; discussing the specificity of the region and also deconstructing homogenising approaches.
2) Enabling students to draw on insights from the anthropology of post-socialism, economic anthropology and political economy in order to explain encounters with global capitalism in the region and gaining a critical view on the transformations and continuities in its social relations.
3) The course will put an emphasis on new ethnographies of food and agriculture, as this is an arena where competing value and practices of transforming CEE societies are most visible.
Preliminary Knowledge
N/A
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Ability to critically assess popular discourses on Central and Eastern Europe; to explain the theoretical concepts introduced during the course; to use the studied theoretical and ethnographic concepts in one's own research.
Skills
1.Acquisition and honing of theoretical analysis skills, written and oral presentation skills, based on the newly acquired theoretical knowledge and empirical observations.
Competences
1.Critical assessment of the theoretical and empirical material introduced during the course; use of these materials in the interpretation and analysis of other theoretical and empirical materials; reliance on the covered material in research and solving practical problems.
Assessment
Individual work
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Reading of the assigned texts, preparation of written assignments and oral presentations. More details on the e-studies platform.
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Examination
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Active class participation (40%). Final paper (60%).
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Critical engagements with ‘Postsocialism’
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Land and property relations after socialism
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Markets and commodification
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Inequality and subsistence strategies
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Politics of gender
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Flexible personhood
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Place and authenticity
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Politics of heritage and biodiversity conservation
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Certification and regulation in agriculture
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‘Europeanization’ in the food and wine field
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‘Europeanization’ in the food and wine field
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
48 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Creed, G.W., 2011. Masquerade and postsocialism: ritual and cultural dispossession in Bulgaria. Indiana University Press.
2.
Chelcea, L. and Druţǎ, O., 2016. Zombie socialism and the rise of neoliberalism in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(4-5), pp.521-544.
3.
Makovicky, N., 2016. Introduction: Me, Inc.? Untangling Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism. In Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism (pp. 15-30). Routledge.
4.
Kalb, D., 2009. Conversations with a Polish populist: Tracing hidden histories of globalization, class, and dispossession in postsocialism (and beyond). American Ethnologist, 36(2), pp.207-223.
5.
Gille, Z., 2016. Paprika, foie gras, and red mud: The politics of materiality in the European Union. Indiana University Press.
6.
Pine, F., 2003. Retreat to the household?: Gendered domains in postsocialist Poland. In Postsocialism (pp. 107-125). Routledge.
7.
Berdahl, D., 1999. ‘(N) Ostalgie’for the present: memory, longing, and East German things.Ethnos, 64(2), pp.192-211.
8.
Aistara, G.A., 2014. Authentic Anachronisms. Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 14(4), pp.7-16.