240081 SE Reimagining the Balkans. Anthropological Inquiries into Diversity, Borders and Migration (P3, P4) (2015S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Su 01.02.2015 00:01 to Su 22.02.2015 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 15.03.2015 23:59
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Wednesday 04.03. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Thursday 05.03. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Friday 06.03. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Monday 15.06. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 16.06. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Wednesday 17.06. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
- Thursday 18.06. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Eastern and South--Eastern Europe/the Balkans represent an ascending field of inquiry for anthropologists. Especially due to the collapse of real--socialism, the violent conflicts in the Balkans and the on--going process of EU--Eastern Enlargement the number of anthropological contributions is continuously growing. Moreover, anthropological inquiries into eastern and south--eastern fringes of Europe have generated new and innovative ways of thinking about core concepts of anthropology, such as identity, hybridity, borders, diversity, violence, modernity, migration etc.
As indicated in the title, this seminar will thus provide the students with the opportunity to re-- assess both the knowledge about this part of Europe and important concepts and research fields in anthropology in general. This will be done by focusing on the following thematic clusters, while continuously considering the dimensions of gender and historical legacies:Diversity/Identity/Multiculturalism
Borders/Borderlands
MigrationApart from stressing the dialectics of theory and empirical knowledge production through the focus on anthropological case--studies, the students will be continuously encouraged to apply a comparative perspective as one of the core tools of anthropological inquiry.
As indicated in the title, this seminar will thus provide the students with the opportunity to re-- assess both the knowledge about this part of Europe and important concepts and research fields in anthropology in general. This will be done by focusing on the following thematic clusters, while continuously considering the dimensions of gender and historical legacies:Diversity/Identity/Multiculturalism
Borders/Borderlands
MigrationApart from stressing the dialectics of theory and empirical knowledge production through the focus on anthropological case--studies, the students will be continuously encouraged to apply a comparative perspective as one of the core tools of anthropological inquiry.
Examination topics
The course combines lectures, discussion/close reading sessions and group presentations. The input lectures on the main thematic clusters of the course are followed by extensive discussions based on the readings. The second part of the course consists of group presentations on the given thematic clusters followed by discussions.
Reading list
BALLINGER, Pamela (2004):'Authentic Hybrids' in the Balkan Borderlands, Current Anthropology 45(1): 3160.
BRUBAKER, Rogers (2004): Ethnicity Without Groups. Harvard University Press. Duijzings, Ger (2000): Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. Columbia University Press.
GREEN, Sarah F. (2005): Notes from the Balkans. Locating marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek--
----Albanian Border. Princeton University Press.
KYMLICKA, Will (2002): Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East, JEMIE 4(2002). TODOROVA, Marija (2009). Imagining the Balkans (Updated Edition). Oxford University Press. VERTOVEC, Steven (2012): Diversity and the Social Imaginary, European Journal of Sociology 53 (3): 287------312.
BRUBAKER, Rogers (2004): Ethnicity Without Groups. Harvard University Press. Duijzings, Ger (2000): Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. Columbia University Press.
GREEN, Sarah F. (2005): Notes from the Balkans. Locating marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek--
----Albanian Border. Princeton University Press.
KYMLICKA, Will (2002): Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East, JEMIE 4(2002). TODOROVA, Marija (2009). Imagining the Balkans (Updated Edition). Oxford University Press. VERTOVEC, Steven (2012): Diversity and the Social Imaginary, European Journal of Sociology 53 (3): 287------312.
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