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Seminar: Ethnographies of gender in East and Southeast Asia - Details
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Course name Seminar: Ethnographies of gender in East and Southeast Asia
Course number BA: ETH
Semester SS 2015
Current number of participants 1
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 16.04.2015 12:15 - 13:45
Participants Ethnographic writing, with its attention to the nuances and the intricacies of social interaction, is particularly useful in order to deconstruct complex inequalities and understand the workings of power relations. In this course students will familiarise themselves with ethnographies that use gender as a key concept for social analysis. Using ethnographies conducted in East Asia and Southeast Asia, the course will introduce the different conceptualisations of gender that emerged from academic debates in the twentieth and twenty first century. On the one hand, students will be encouraged to conceptualise this analytical category as the product of specific and evolving academic, social and political contexts: from cold-war politics to the emergence of post-colonialism, post-socialism, identity politics and queer activism. On the other, the use of ethnography as heuristic device will help students to relate the use of gender analysis to particular economic, social and political conditions in the field.
Performance record Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben
Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für) BA Ethnologie
SWS 2
Miscellanea Dieses Seminar wird auf Englisch abgehalten. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen sind ebenfalls auf Englisch zu erbringen.

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Thursday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly(13x)

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Ethnographic writing, with its attention to the nuances and the intricacies of social interaction, is particularly useful in order to deconstruct complex inequalities and understand the workings of power relations. In this course students will familiarise themselves with ethnographies that use gender as a key concept for social analysis. Using ethnographies conducted in East Asia and Southeast Asia, the course will introduce the different conceptualisations of gender that emerged from academic debates in the twentieth and twenty first century. On the one hand, students will be encouraged to conceptualise this analytical category as the product of specific and evolving academic, social and political contexts: from cold-war politics to the emergence of post-colonialism, post-socialism, identity politics and queer activism. On the other, the use of ethnography as heuristic device will help students to relate the use of gender analysis to particular economic, social and political conditions in the field.