| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 22 Hours. (1 x 2 hour seminars per week) |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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
This module provides the second part of an introduction to postcolonial politics
The module examines the use of Foucauldian concepts of power and discourse in the study of development, governance and resistance in a postcolonial context.
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.
This module is at CQFW Level 7