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| Veranstaltungsname | Seminar: Crisis, Recession and Uncertainty in Europe and the Mediterranean: Anthropological perspectives |
| Untertitel | Bei Dr. Brian Campbell |
| Veranstaltungsnummer | BA: ETH |
| Semester | WS 2017/18 |
| Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden | 3 |
| Heimat-Einrichtung | Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| Erster Termin | Donnerstag, 19.10.2017 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: (SR der Graduiertenschule GKB, Reichardtstr. 6) |
| Teilnehmende |
This seminar explores the theoretical, ethnographic and ethical crises anthropologists face when doing research in Europe. What are “Europe” and “the Mediterranean”? How should anthropologists study them? How do we approach global processes of nationalism, migration and recession? What does the anthropology of “Europe” and “the Mediterranean” reveal about the assumptions of anthropology itself? How do anthropologists contribute to current European affairs? The course will be divided into three sections. Part 1 (“Here be Dragons”) discusses the factors that kept anthropologists away from Europe, the rise of “anthropology at home”, and the catastrophic failure of the quest to define the Mediterranean as a culture area. This critical history urges students to consider how ethnography is closely intertwined with politico-economic changes within and without anthropology. Section 2 (“Nations and States”) focuses on socio-cultural phenomena that have puzzled ethnographers of modern, industrial, urban Europe. What is nationalism? What about the ethnic violence seemingly chronic in Europe? Is there such a thing as European Islam? Why are European traditions revitalising? And how do we cope with those “fucking tourists”? In Part 3 (“Europe in Crisis”) we join contemporary anthropologists and look at issues affecting European societies today. We study the rise of populist-nationalist movements hostile to the European Union, examine how anthropology reacted to a financial crisis that almost wiped out southern Europe and question the ambiguities that arise when the migrant body becomes the object of the a new “humanitarian government” and the “banal business of bordering Europe”. |
| Leistungsnachweis |
Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben Modulleistung: Hausarbeit Besonderheiten: This course will be taught in English and all course assignments and term papers will have to be submitted in English. |
| Studiengänge (für) | BA Ethnologie |
| SWS | 2 |
