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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Social and Political Science : Postgrad (School of Social and Political Studies)

Postgraduate Course: The Politics of Identity in South Asia (PGSP11050)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Ester Gallo
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Course secretaryMiss Morag Wilson
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