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The Anthropology of Globalisation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:19.03.2024 11:50:45
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SZF_030 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.67 | ECTS: | 4.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics; The Theory of Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Mārtiņš Daugulis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 12 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 24 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of politics. | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Social anthropology – dimensions and methods of analysis | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Seminar: “Silent voices” and “dark anthropology” – methods and ethics | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Religion, state and politics in the context of globalisation | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Seminar: Global city and global state | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Global economy and consumer society: principles of movement and challenges thereof | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Seminar: Reciprocity in the global world | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Biopower and biopolitics: body and power | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Seminar: Global biosociety | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Seminar: Bringing microscale to macropicture – fieldwork and conclusions | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 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. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Scale 1-10 in accordance with assessment scale developed by students using the feed-up approach. Independent work - 50%; exam - 50%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students find their way in social anthropology directions and methods in conjunction with globalisation processes and politics. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students use social anthropology methods in the analysis of political processes. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | 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. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Keane, Webb. 2014. "Affordances and reflexivity in ethical life: An ethnographic stance". Anthropological theory 14 (1): 3–26. | ||||||||
| 2 | Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1979. | ||||||||
| 3 | Fuko, Mišels. 1995. Patiesība. Vara. Patība. Rīga: Spektrs. (latviešu plūsmai) | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
