General information
| Course name | Seminar: Postsozialismusforschung |
| Semester | WS 2010/11 |
| Current number of participants | 0 |
| Home institute | Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie |
| Courses type | Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| First date | Tuesday, 12.10.2010 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Type/Form | ETrans (MA) |
| Participants |
Kommentar: What was known as the developed “Second-World” has been since the dissolution of the socialist systems and especially of the Soviet Union commonly referred to as “transition societies”. This course aims to illustrate the challenges but also benefits of studying such societies from an anthropological perspective. In this seminar classical anthropological themes will be set in contemporary post-socialist contexts as well as in global processes. A critical discussion of the ability of anthropologists and other social scientists to understand what socialism was and was not, and what post-socialism is becoming (or has already become) should develop during the course. More specifically themes such as gender and sexuality, consumption and leisure, ethnic and national identities, economic reforms and resistances, authoritarian states and reform democracies will be studied with the help of ethnographies and theoretical debates. Introductory literature: Verdery, K. 1996. What was socialism, and what comes next? Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press. |
| Pre-requisites | nur für MA-Studierende |
| Studiengänge (für) | nur für MA-Studierende |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS points | 5 |
