Module Identifier IPM1820  
Module Title POSTCOLONIAL POL 2: COLONIALISM, IDENTITY, RESISTANCE  
Academic Year 2003/2004  
Co-ordinator Dr Rita Abrahamsen  
Semester Intended for use in future years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Pre-Requisite IPM1720  
Mutually Exclusive IPM1830 , IPM1430 , IPM1420  
Course delivery Seminars / Tutorials   22 Hours (1 x 2 hour seminars per week)  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 Hours  50%
Semester Assessment Essay: 1 x 2,000 words  50%
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 two of the following: colonialism, identity or resistance in a postcolonial setting
- discuss 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 colonialism, identity and resistance in a postcolonial context.

Content

There are three seminars on colonialism, three on identity 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

The module will require and develop transferable skills such as teamwork (through the use of student-led seminars), individual writing and analytic skills and time management (through the preparation of essays); critical reading and analysis (through the preparation for weekly seminars); debating and facilitating skills and the ability to express themselves on complex topics in an understandable way (through the seminar discussions).

10 ECTS credits

Reading Lists

Books
Loomba, A (1998) Colonialsim/Postcolonialism Routledge
Alan Sheridan Michael Foucault: The Will to Truth Routledge
Foucault, M Discipline and Punish Penguin
Franz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth Penguin

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7