Culture and Power: The Anthropology of Political Processes (SA0059)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-SACP

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

This course introduces a range of ways of imagining political relations and the relationship between culture and power through the detailed examination of politicized forms of power and their manifestations at the global, state, national, local, and personal level. The course centres on the interactions between subjects, populations and governance, whether that governance is based in liberalism, neo-liberalism, socialism, or, for example, nationalism. Central themes will be the different ways of giving meaning to and of living equality and inequality; practices of belonging and exclusion, strategies and forms of domination and resistance; and shifts in legal and bureaucratic effects and practices.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, the students should have an advanced understanding of the importance and scope of anthropology's contribution to the analysis of power. They will be able to take a critical, nuanced, informed, and - importantly - anthropological perspective on issues of governance, processes of democratization, nationalism and the role of the state in a variety of ethnographic contexts.