Undergraduate Course: The Politics of Identity in South Asia (SCAN10016)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course has two primary aims. First, to introduce students to recent critical work on the multi-layered dimension of the 'politics of identity' in South Asia, and to develop a comparative perspective within and across different States. Second, to highlight the specific contribution anthropology can make to understanding the topic, through a constant interdisciplinary dialogue with political theory, history and cultural studies. The course also aims at making students familiar with recent ethnographic work that analyses the real or imagined crisis of the nation-state in South Asia.
One caveat. A significant part of the course will focus on India and its regional variations. However, comparative perspectives on key issues such as nationalism, violence, education and middle-class will be developed with respect to Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ester Gallo
Tel:
Email: eg24@sussex.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Katie Teague
Tel: (0131 6)50 4001
Email: katie.teague@ed.ac.uk |
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