Postgraduate Course: The Politics of Identity in South Asia (PGSP11050)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course has two aims: to introduce students to recent critical work on the 'politics of identity' - ie. The role of ethnicity, religion, caste and language - in contemporary South Asia; and to assess the specific contribution anthropology can make to understanding these problems. This necessarily requires considerable crossing of disciplinary boundaries, with the use of arguments from political theory, history, cultural studies, law as well as anthropology. Nevertheless, the course will concentrate above all on recent ethnographic work which claims to throw light on the real or imagined crisis of the nation-state in South Asia. We have included a range of works which, will provide a broad introduction to not only Indian and Pakistan, but also Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The course seeks to develop:
- a knowledge and understanding of the recent political history in India and Pakistan, and neighbouring states
- an advanced understanding of the main themes in the anthropology of caste, ethnicity, gender, migration and politics in the region
- a knowledge and understanding of the main theoretical issues in the relationship between anthropological and other theoretical approaches to the material covered in the course
- An ability to apply anthropological and other theoretical perspectives to an understanding in key themes in the politics of identity in South Asia |
Assessment Information
| 4000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ester Gallo
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Course secretary | Miss Madina Howard
Tel: (0131 6)51 1659
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