Unit ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION
- Course
- Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security
- Study-unit Code
- A002014
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Alexander Koensler
- Teachers
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- Alexander Koensler
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alexander Koensler
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The aim of the course is to encourage the capacity for critical reflection around contemporary debates relating to the concept of "globalization".
- Reference texts
- PART I:
Stefano Boni, Alexander Koensler e Amalia Rossi (2020), Etnografie militanti. Prospettive e dilemmi. Milano: Meltemi.
PART II:
Un libro a scelta tra i seguenti:
(a) Alexander Koensler (2008) Amicizie vulnerabili. Coesistenza e conflitto in Israele. Perugia: Morlacchi.
Oppure:
(b) Anna Tsing (2005), Friction. An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Oppure:
(c) Kregg Hetherington (2020), The Government of Beans. Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops. Durham: Duke University Press.
Oppure:
(d) Maple Razsa (2015), Bastards of Utopia. Living Radical Politics After Socialism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Oppure:
(e) Alexander Koensler (2015): Shifting Paradigms: Israeli-Palestinian Activism. London: Routledge. - Educational objectives
- The main knowledge that students will acquire will be:
knowledge of approaches and methods;
knowledge of the relationship between anthropology and forms of governance;
knowledge of tools and techniques for the interpretation of socio-cultural processes involved in economic dynamics.
The main skills that allow to apply the acquired knowledge will be:
ability to formulate the research problem and to adopt effective and innovative methodological choices;
ability to analyze data and reflect on the topics addressed.
awareness of the interconnections between rules, global flows and local realities
knowledge of the problematic nature of the notion of development
knowledge of the role of the anthropologist in cooperation and development policies - Prerequisites
- n/a
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
frontal lessons;
meetings with the authors of the study texts;
discussion groups;
vision of ethnographic audiovisual materials as integration of the frontal lessons. - Other information
- Attendance is not compulsory but highly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- Exam in form of a discussion. Attending students can replace the final oral exam in whole or in part with a written dissertation to be agreed with the teacher.
The exam will take place with an oral exam lasting approximately 30 minutes. The evaluation of the test is from the following aspects:
1. Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Summary
2. Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Detail
3. Autonomy of judgment, understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments part of the interpretation of a database, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues;
4. Communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors;
5. Learning ability, understood as the necessary skill to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy.
In the event that the student intends to anticipate the exam in a year prior to the one scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended to attend the cycle of lessons and to affirm the exam in the first useful session after the same lessons have ended, in the therefore of the semester of programming with respect to teaching.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- The aim of the course is to encourage the capacity for critical reflection around contemporary debates relating to the concept of "globalization". By bringing together political, economic and anthropology approaches and the study of conflicts, the course will focus on an ethnographic (field research) approach to the processes of globalization and its often multidirectional and contradictory effects on daily life. The course therefore aims to offer an "behind the scenes" anthropological look at some of the most pressing contemporary problems, from the economy, to conflicts to activism and environmentalism. A part of the seminar course is dedicated to the critical discussion of some essays dealing with the effects of globalization on daily life.