Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 22 Hours. (1 x 2 hour seminars per week) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 1 x 3,000-3,500 word essay | 40% |
Semester Assessment | 1 x 4,000 - 4,500 word essay | 60% |
Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:
- analyse power relations and discursive practices in particular postcolonial contexts
- discuss critically questions of development, governance and resistance in a postcolonial setting
- discuss and critically evaluate postcolonial politics more broadly
Brief description
This module provides the second part of an introduction to postcolonial politics
Aims
The module examines the use of Foucauldian concepts of power and discourse in the study of development, governance and resistance in a postcolonial context.
Content
There are three seminars on development, three on governance and three on resistance. In each case we examine traditional approaches and challenges to those from a discursive or Foucauldian framework. Each block of seminars includes a specific case study. A concluding seminar addresses the question of the value of the approaches covered in relation to postcolonial politics.
Transferable skills
15 ECTS credits
Reading List
General TextFoucault, M Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972-1977 (ed by C Gordon) Harvester Press Primo search Loomba, A Colonialism/Postcolonialism Routledge Primo search Essential Reading
Williams, P. & Chrisman, L. (eds.) (1994) Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader Harvester Wheatsheaf Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7