Geographies of Development and Inequality

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 1

The module examines the geography of development and the processes producing development and inequality from a global perspective. It looks at globalisation and the global integration of economies and societies, the geography of the creation and distribution of wealth and income and the processes that drive them at a global scale and in developed (Europe) and developing (East Asia and China) parts of the world. It examines the theories that geographers have developed to explain the changing map of development and considers the impact of public policies at a range of scales. It also aims to examine the linkages between places that compose a complex mosaic of development and inequality around the world.

Key Concepts in Anthropology

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 1

This module provides an overview of the big questions that anthropologists have contributed to and the different theoretical paradigms and concepts that they have developed or adopted. The aim is to provide you with a rapid overview of the discipline. It begins with two weeks examining the concepts of Society and Culture and their varied conceptualisations, followed by weeks that take in turn the key characteristics and assumptions of

• British structural functionalism

• methodological individualism and agency

• French structuralism

• British structuralism

• marxism, ideology and hegemony

• poststructuralism

• discourse and power/knowledge

• poststructuralism

• 'practice' and phenomenology.

Place, Space and Landscape

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 1

This module provides you with a grounding in the history, traditions and approaches that have shaped contemporary human geography. These include the fields of regional geography, radical geography and Marxism, urban and rural geography, economic geography, social and cultural geography, and political and historical geography. It concludes with a consideration of contemporary approaches to society and space.

Quantitative and Analytical Skills

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 1

This module provides you with essential skills in quantitative and analytical methods, enabling you to evaluate different types of numerical data in human and physical geography. Topics include essential maths, trigonometry, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, least squares regression, mechanics and modelling.

Each week a generic lecture introduces a particular topic and this is supported by practical-based workshops in which you gain experience in these skills. The workshops are based on exercises related to the substantive content of the modules of Geographies of Development and Inequality (for BA Geographers) and The Natural World 2 (for BSc Geographers). To provide intellectual coherence, you will be placed in workshop groups based upon your degree programme.

Study Skills in Geography and Ecology

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 1

This module provides you with training in basic study skills for degree-level work. Topics include organisation, data resources, critical writing, referencing, critical thinking and reading, presentations, visual representation of data, GIS and maps, remote sensing.

Each week a generic lecture introduces a particular study skill and this is supported by practical-based workshops in which you gain experience in these skills. The workshops are based on exercises related to the substantive content of the modules of Place, Space and Landscape (for BA Geographers) and The Natural World 1 (for BSc Geographers). To provide intellectual coherence, you will be placed  in workshop groups based upon your degree programme. A residential fieldtrip also takes place, currently in the village of Alfriston, in the South Downs.

The Anthropological Imagination

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 1

The module aims to convey a sense of anthropology as an exciting, 'living' subject, alive to the concerns of different communities and
populations living across the globe, and as cutting edge in terms of the research conducted by anthropologists at Sussex as they
actively engage with issues of social, cultural and global transformation. This is accomplished through a module structure which
revolves around 5 core themes considered central to the subject which capture anthropological thinking on the subjects of culture,
identity and representation:

• kinship, self and body
• economy as culture
• religion and politics
• and work on the global-local interface.

The Anthropology of Exchange, Money and Markets

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 1

The purpose of this module is to introduce you to how anthropologists have conceptualised, researched, and generated new understandings of the human activities that comprise economic life. Studying economic life from an anthropological view requires us to rethink such concepts as work and leisure, poverty and wealth, gifts and commodities, money and markets, and the term 'economy' itself. Therefore, economic anthropology enables us to critique some of the universalisms of mainstream economics through which capitalism has become naturalised. Traditionally, economic anthropology has been concerned with systems of exchange, non-industrial economies, and livelihood systems. In addition to covering these topics, we will examine issues of contemporary concern such as class, money, debt, shopping, factories, fair trade, globalisation, bioeconomies, and new strategies and practices of resistance.

The Anthropology of Kinship and Relatedness

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 1

The study of human relatedness and kinship has been central to the history of British social anthropology. This module introduces you to classic and new debates in kinship studies drawing upon material from a wide range of ethnographic contexts to examine the ways in which societies organise and conceptualise human relationships. It is concerned with the transformation of social structures and processes as well as the connections between kin organisations and power in developing and post-industrial societies. The module considers both accepted and more novel ways in thinking about human kinship: how we become related through 'substance', emotion, place and technology, for example. It covers both historical ground as well as the contemporary debates in the study of human relatedness.

Ethnographic Methods

15 credits
Autumn & spring teaching, Year 2

This module introduces you to practical, theoretical and ethical issues surrounding ethnographic research in anthropology and the social sciences more generally. Methodological concerns around research design and implementation will be explored through a series of workshops on epistemology, methodology, and ethics.

It introduces you to a range of qualitative research methods, including the research interview, participant-observation and various participatory research methods. The module also introduces you to the analysis of qualitative data and to key issues of writing and representation. It is assessed by a group research project that you conduct by yourself. This project will give you the opportunity to design and conduct an independent piece of ethnographic research around a key anthropological theme, while allowing you to reflect on and apply the theoretical and practical insights gained over the course of the module.

Geography Overseas Field Class

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

In year 2 all students studying at Sussex go on a field class, either overseas or a non-residential one in Sussex. We offer an extensive ¿ and unrivalled ¿ set of international field class options for those who wish to choose them. In 2013, we will be taking trips to the US (Los Angeles), China and Vietnam. Students will carry out data collection for a period of about 10 days. Analysis and writing up of a learning diary will take place upon their return. The field class presents an opportunity for faculty to familiarise students with a location in which they themselves may conduct research and gives students the experience of carrying out their own research in that location.

Methods and Approaches in Human Geography

15 credits
Autumn & spring teaching, Year 2

The module will equip you with the skills needed to carry out a final year thesis project in human geography. It will consist of lectures on quantitative and qualitative methods and on their application in particular branches of the discipline. It will also contain guidance on the preparation of the thesis proposal, arising in particular from presentations held in the spring term.

Anthropology Fieldtrips

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

This module introduces you to anthropological research in the field through a series of short UK and European based fieldtrips. Each topic is first introduced through a preparatory seminar during which relevant theoretical literature and approaches are discussed. You then meet with tutors at the chosen field-sites in order to conduct your own ethnographic observations and research. Topics may include:

• a consideration of human rights at the International Criminal Courts at the Hague
• a study of urban regeneration and gentrification in East London
• the ethnography of non-place and consumption in a shopping centre.

Cultural Geographies

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 2

After introducing the cultural turn in human geography, the module focuses upon the development and impact of representational theories for the understanding of the cultural politics of landscape and nature and the challenge offered to this approach by recent non-representational thinking and theories of practice and performance. Cultural representations of class, sexuality, gender, race and landscape are covered, in each case examining the relationship between power and space at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The module also incorporates an examination of twentieth and twenty-first century popular cultures and their geographies of resistance.

Culture and Performance

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

The module focuses on the anthropological master trope of "culture" and on the political dimensions of representing culture or "cultures". We consider how anthropological understandings of "culture", as well as anthropologists' modes of analysing and representing it in anthropological work, developed over the 20th century, partially in conversation with other disciplines. We also examine how "culture" operates as a key idea in the public domain, used by politicians, community and human rights activists, artists, scientists, museum curators and others in relation to a wide range of issues and debates when distinctions between "ourselves" and "others" are at stake. Finally, we look at some activities within the cultural domain (such as music, dance, theatre, verbal artistry) which have a performative dimension, and consider how anthropologists have approached these activities to address questions about structure and agency, embodiment, experience, art and aesthetics, creativity, power and protest.

Culture, Race and Ethnicity

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

This module explores the relationship between ideas of culture, race and ethnicity both historically and in contemporary society. You will examine a range of empirical examples that demonstrate how the concepts have been used – sometimes separately, sometimes in interlocking ways – in political projects or movements. There will be particular focus on contructions of 'whiteness'. Examples may include the use of race in 19th-century colonial administration, the politics of ethnicity in postwar London or the rise of the new right in contemporary Europe.

Environmental Perspectives on Development

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

The module explores development with an explicit focus on environmental issues. You will look at the relationships between development and the environment: the consequences of development on the environment, environmental constraints to development, and problems of development in marginal environments. You will examine how the environment and issues around sustainability have been considered (or ignored) in relation to development and how this has changed over time. The module includes historical perspectives on environment and development, illustrating continuities and changes in policies related to environment and development. It also explores core issues around environmental management and development in relation to key resources, such as wildlife, forests and water.

Geographical Information Systems

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

This module is designed to introduce you to the various components that constitute a Geographical Information System (GIS), while providing you with practical skills in using these tools. Using leading GIS software, you will gain direct experience of a range of data collection and input, database, analytical and visualisation techniques. These will include:

• georeferencing
• vector/raster integration
• and data classification.

This methodology will be illustrated through a range of social and environmental applications, emphasising its decision-assisting potential and looking at some real world examples from the fields of disaster management and development.

Globalisation and Empire

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 2

This module examines the key social, political, economic and cultural shifts that shaped the modern European empires, placing particular emphasis on Victorian Britain and its Empire during the 19th century. You will consider the British metropole and the colonial world within a single analytical framework, focusing on the trans­-imperial connections that laid the foundations of modern globalisation. You also explore the postcolonial traces of Empire in British, Australasian, Indian and North American contexts.

Politics and Power

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 2

This module draws on political anthropology and social theory to explore what is for many anthropologists the central concept in the discipline: forms of power. In Western societies the term 'politics' tends to connote a quite narrow range of activities and institutions, typically those focused around parties, government and the state. We shall be using the term 'political' in a much wider sense, and linking it to the operations of power. Power is not a thing, but an aspect of a vast range of relationships from the most local to the global. There can be no neat boundaries around this field of study. Instead our intention is to explore the way the analysis of power has widened and deepened over the last fifty years, and to suggest continuity with economic and cultural processes that you are studying in other modules.

Religion and Ritual

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 2

This module is concerned with the explanation of religious and ritual phenomena. It explores the key theoretical issues by examining ethnographic material that deals with - among other things - initiation, myth, witchcraft, symbolism and religious experience. There is also some treatment of more 'secular' rituals such as carnival and Christmas. The focus is as much on how people believe as on what they believe; on why they perform rituals as much as what these rituals look like. It explores both classic texts and more recent accounts, to give you a sense of where particular arguments have come from and where they are going.

Social Geography

15 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 2

Following an introduction to the development of social geography, the module focuses around the interactions between social relations, space and place. These connections are explored through the geographies of class, ethnicity, sexuality and gender relations (and the intersections between them), at a variety of spatial scales, from local to global, and both urban and rural. We include geographies of activism, health and ability and gentrification.

Visual Anthropology

15 credits
Spring teaching, Year 2

This module will familiarise you with theories and applications of visual anthropology. You will have the opportunity to study complex legacies of visual representation in anthropology as well as contemporary, activist visual work. Crossovers between anthropological and other relevant visual epistemologies in the social sciences will be explored. You will also undertake visual research projects.

Work Placement (Anthropology)

60 credits
Autumn & spring teaching, Year 2

This module is designed to allow students to gain practical work experience in an area of relevance to their degree programme, as well as carrying out a supervised project that builds on research or practical skills learned in the first three terms of the degree. It takes the form of a 12-week international work placement, to be undertaken during the second teaching block of the second year and replacing modules offered at the University. A limited number of placements will be available, in development and other international organisations, NGOs and businesses, and students will be selected for them on a competitive basis.

For each placement, a detailed work-plan will be agreed with the placement provider which allows the student to contextualise their learning, develop and apply new skills and foster personal development. It is anticipated that placements may also generate the opportunity of subsequent employment either during the summer vacation, or after the degree programme is completed.

Work Placement (Geography)

60 credits
Autumn & spring teaching, Year 2

Advances in Climate Sciences

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module is an introduction to climate science with particular focus on climate feedbacks, climate observations, climate variability and climate analyses. The module will highlight the major challenges in climate sciences (e.g. global carbon cycles and aerosols), and significant climate phenomena, such as El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Practical sessions will enable you to gain hands-on experience in creating climate analysis and statistical plots using real-life data from climate observatories and outputs from existing climate models.

Anthropology of Fertility, Reproduction and Health

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

The module uses social and cultural perspectives to examine academic and policy work in the area of reproduction, sexuality and health. It draws on the insights of medical anthropology, especially in relation to the body, gender and power, to critically reflect on reproduction, sexuality and health issues across the global North and South. A particular concern is with the existence and experience of sexual and reproductive inequalities in diverse social and cultural settings. Contrary to popular belief, reproduction is a process which is as much about men as it is about women, and is studied in the context of, for example, male fertility/infertility, masculinity, fatherhood and male sexual health. The module builds upon the theoretical perspectives introduced in the second year on kinship, procreation, social reproduction, sexuality, personhood, reproductive technologies, human rights and applied anthropology.

Anthropology of the Body

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module explores the body from an anthropological perspective, and considers how different societies and cultures conceptualise and experience the human body. In recent years, anthropologists and other academics have become increasingly interested in the body, including authors such as Foucault and Bourdieu. Some draw upon Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach with its emphasis on the senses, while others attempted to resolve the tensions between experience and agency. The module asks how the body represents a challenge for anthropological research, and explores recent ethnographic contributions to this field. We consider the body as a site on which social and cultural processes are inscribed, where power relations converge and are articulated, and as a site where agency is performed. Materials are drawn from both non-Western and Western societies.

Climate Change Policy

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module provides you with a stimulating and critical introduction to contemporary national and international approaches to climate change policy. You will gain a sound knowledge of core principles from the discipline of environmental economics, which underpins the majority of existing climate change policy mechanisms, such as green taxes and tradable emissions permits. This understanding is then built upon to engage in a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary climate policy approaches and the ethical issues they raise, including problems of inter-generational equity and the tensions between countries at differing stages of development. Throughout the module the theory and ideas covered are applied to real world examples of contemporary climate change policy problems, leaving you with an in depth understanding of contemporary climate policy debates and the tools required to critically engage with them.

Climate Change Policy

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module provides you with a stimulating and critical introduction to contemporary national and international approaches to climate change policy. You will gain a sound knowledge of core principles from the discipline of environmental economics, which underpins the majority of existing climate change policy mechanisms, such as green taxes and tradable emissions permits. This understanding is then built upon to engage in a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary climate policy approaches and the ethical issues they raise, including problems of inter-generational equity and the tensions between countries at differing stages of development. Throughout the module the theory and ideas covered are applied to real world examples of contemporary climate change policy problems, leaving you with an in depth understanding of contemporary climate policy debates and the tools required to critically engage with them.

Conflict, Violence and Peace: Critical perspectives

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

In recent years, there has been increased focus on conflict, violence and peace-building in the media, popular literature and aid programmes raising important questions about how these processes are understood and represented and what implications this has for the local and international response and in turn the transformation of conflict and violence. This module will offer critical perspectives on mainstream approaches to the study of conflict, violence and peace drawing on both anthropology and development studies.

Cultures of Colonialism

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module introduces you to the colonial practices, discourses and cultures across the nineteenth century British Empire and their legacies. It examines the British metropole and its colonies within a single analytical framework, tracking the exchange of people, ideas and objects along the networks that connected them. Initially you will cover the main approaches to the study of British colonialism, including traditional imperial history and postcolonialism. The latter part of the module investigates cultural, social and political impacts of British colonialism at specific sites across the empire, including India, North America and New Zealand.

Cultures of Colonialism

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module introduces you to the colonial practices, discourses and cultures across the nineteenth century British Empire and their legacies. It examines the British metropole and its colonies within a single analytical framework, tracking the exchange of people, ideas and objects along the networks that connected them. Initially you will cover the main approaches to the study of British colonialism, including traditional imperial history and postcolonialism. The latter part of the module investigates cultural, social and political impacts of British colonialism at specific sites across the empire, including India, North America and New Zealand.

Current Themes in the Anthropology of Latin America

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

The aim of this module is to provide a framework for understanding current anthropological issues in the Latin American region, as well as how Latin American anthropology (both anthropology on Latin America and anthropology by Latin Americans) has contributed to the development of the wider anthropological discipline. Some of the themes covered will engage with anthropological understandings of indigeneity, race, gender, colonialism, nation states and environmentalism. The module will be mostly focused on the Amazonian and Andean regions but will also link to other parts of Latin America. Each week will be centred on ethnographic pieces that offer interesting reflections for contemporary issues as well as anthropological theory.

Environment, Ecology and Development

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module examines the impact of social and economic transformations, trade and technological development on people, environment and ecology in the tropics. The analysis includes a historical perspective, present-day impacts and future scenarios. Topics include problems of water and energy supply and their health and environmental consequences; indigenous environmental knowledge; intellectual property rights and biotechnology; local and national perspectives on wildlife, ecotourism and environmental protection.

Environment, Ecology and Development

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module examines the impact of social and economic transformations, trade and technological development on people, environment and ecology in the tropics. The analysis includes a historical perspective, present-day impacts and future scenarios. Topics include problems of water and energy supply and their health and environmental consequences; indigenous environmental knowledge; intellectual property rights and biotechnology; local and national perspectives on wildlife, ecotourism and environmental protection.

Environmental Anthropology

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module considers the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment. Like the focus of many environmental movements, much recent work in ecological anthropology has been crisis-driven. Whilst covering this literature, the focus of this module will be broader, taking a wider perspective, including the context in which the research itself is being done. Current work on the human dimensions of deforestation, or global climate change, for example, can be informed and strengthened by an understanding of the century-old intellectual lineage of the underlying issues.

The module will therefore cover the evolution of environmental anthropology, using ethnographic exemplars that relate to contemporary environmental issues, whilst at the same time probing debates such as:

• the Nature-Culture trap, and beyond

• Ecology and Social Organisation

• the Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment (including environmental anthropological contributions to mining, resource conflict etc.)

• knowing (and the limits to knowing) and researching the environment

Geographies of Rising and Declining Powers: China and Europe

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module examines the relative economic performance of the main world regions, focusing particularly on comparative economic performance and political dynamics in China and Europe. The module draws on geographic and political economic theories to explain geographies of wealth, poverty and power and explores the social, political and cultural foundations of economic life. You will study the main drivers of change, situating this within a wider context of globalisation, environmental and technological change and increasing economic and political interdependence.

Geographies of Rising and Declining Powers: China and Europe

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module examines the relative economic performance of the main world regions, focusing particularly on comparative economic performance and political dynamics in China and Europe. The module draws on geographic and political economic theories to explain geographies of wealth, poverty and power and explores the social, political and cultural foundations of economic life. You will study the main drivers of change, situating this within a wider context of globalisation, environmental and technological change and increasing economic and political interdependence.

Geography Thesis

30 credits
Autumn & spring teaching, Year 3

During your final year, you are required to prepare a study to illustrate their ability to design and implement an empirical investigation in geography. The Geography Project entails the collection and analysis of primary data. You will have been given instruction in specific techniques of collecting and handling data and primary source material as well as advice on the presentational format required in the Level 2 module Research Skills, and will be given individual supervision in the design, conduct and writing up of your project throughout your final year.

Global Land Change

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module examines the development of land change studies and the theoretical and methodological challenges to linking biophysical, socio-economic, and remote sensing/GIS analysis. You will gain a good knowledge of both physical and socio-economic factors. The central themes of land change science include: detection and monitoring of land cover change processes; understanding the driving forces of land change; and finally measuring the environmental impacts and consequences of those changes. As such, you will analyse the various methods used in land change science with a particular focus on remote sensing. You will look at specific changes in land, such as desertification, agricultural expansion/intensification and urbanisation as well as looking into the impacts of land change on humans, climate change, biodiversity, and the hydrological cycle.

Globalisation and Geopolitics

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

Globalisation and Geopolitics

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

Labour Geographies and Work Migration

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This interdisciplinary module will appeal to you if you are interested in the impact of globalisation on employment relations and the related power inequalities. It focuses in particular on approaches to work migration which emphasise the agency of migrant workers in shifting the terms of employment, thus challenging the conventional wisdom on labour-capital relations. It incorporates social, cultural and political economic analysis and is concerned with labour geographies in both the global north and the global south, and their interconnectedness. The module will set changes in macro-level environments against grounded narratives of individual working lives and collective histories, including global and local perspectives.

Landscape, Nature and Representation

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module focuses upon the representation of landscapes and nature, and considers the ways in which representations are sites through which ideas, visions and imaginations are set to work. You will assess the production and impact of such representations, critically analysing a range of textual sources from a variety of origins which claim to represent landscape and natures. This will incorporate art, literature, music, the media and cartography.

Landscape, Nature and Representation

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module focuses upon the representation of landscapes and nature, and considers the ways in which representations are sites through which ideas, visions and imaginations are set to work. You will assess the production and impact of such representations, critically analysing a range of textual sources from a variety of origins which claim to represent landscape and natures. This will incorporate art, literature, music, the media and cartography.

Medicine and Culture

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

Drawing from ethnographic and cross-cultural research, the module will explore the relationships between medicine, culture, and society. After an introduction to some of the classical social anthropological approaches to affliction and healing, we will read a series of medical anthropology ethnographies selected for their different theoretical and analytical approaches to understanding medicine and culture. We will consider interpretative, symbolic, psychoanalytic, 'ethnopsychiatric', and cultural phenomenological approaches for understanding such phenomena as sorcery, possession, exorcism, shamanism, and charismatic healing. We conclude by examining recent approaches to medicine that can be characterised as cultural criticism.

Population and Development

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module examines the relationship between population issues and economic, social and environmental aspects of development. It introduces theoretical frameworks for analysing population change and assesses the consequences of population growth for food supplies and the environment at both global and local levels. It goes on to examine factors affecting the components of population change including fertility and mortality decline, changing sex ratios, the growth of megacities and international migration. Policies on health, family planning and migration are also discussed.

Population and Development

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module examines the relationship between population issues and economic, social and environmental aspects of development. It introduces theoretical frameworks for analysing population change and assesses the consequences of population growth for food supplies and the environment at both global and local levels. It goes on to examine factors affecting the components of population change including fertility and mortality decline, changing sex ratios, the growth of megacities and international migration. Policies on health, family planning and migration are also discussed.

Rural Livelihoods in the Global South

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module considers the varied nature of rural livelihood systems in developing countries. You consider changes in livelihoods through livelihood diversification and migration, and the interconnectedness of the global and the local in causing change in rural societies. The module explores the impact of different agents of change on livelihoods. This will include the role of non-governmental organisations, the impact of modern biotechnology and the effects of trade on livelihoods, amongst other important examples. The module draws primarily (though by no means exclusively) on evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and India.

Rural Livelihoods in the Global South

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module considers the varied nature of rural livelihood systems in developing countries. You consider changes in livelihoods through livelihood diversification and migration, and the interconnectedness of the global and the local in causing change in rural societies. The module explores the impact of different agents of change on livelihoods. This will include the role of non-governmental organisations, the impact of modern biotechnology and the effects of trade on livelihoods, amongst other important examples. The module draws primarily (though by no means exclusively) on evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and India.

The Anthropology of Africa

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module introduces you to contemporary anthropological approaches in culture and society in Africa. The guiding thread is an exploration of the relationship between macro and micro levels of analysis in understanding of African society through a selection of thematic lenses (economy, politics, religion, health, gender, conflict, power etc.).

Transnationalism and Identity

30 credits
Autumn teaching, Year 3

This module explores the complex and multiple effects of transnational migration on everyday geographies of home, identification and belonging. The focus will be on the diverse ways in which social and cultural identities are performed in a mobile context. Particular attention will be given to the spatialisation of such identities at a variety of scales (e.g. body, home, community) and the relations between them. Theoretical and empirical research drawn upon in the module will reflect the heterogeneity within and across diasporic groups in terms of class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity. You will learn that migrant identities are contingent on historical and geographical context and will situate discussions of the negotiation of belonging within debates on postcolonialism, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism.

Transnationalism and Identity

30 credits
Spring teaching, Year 3

This module explores the complex and multiple effects of transnational migration on everyday geographies of home, identification and belonging. The focus will be on the diverse ways in which social and cultural identities are performed in a mobile context. Particular attention will be given to the spatialisation of such identities at a variety of scales (e.g. body, home, community) and the relations between them. Theoretical and empirical research drawn upon in the module will reflect the heterogeneity within and across diasporic groups in terms of class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity. You will learn that migrant identities are contingent on historical and geographical context and will situate discussions of the negotiation of belonging within debates on postcolonialism, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism.