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76653-01 - Practical course: Researching Marginals in India: Lens, Perspective and Fieldwork (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | |
| Content | This workshop aims to provide insights and methods to understand the lifeworld of marginal communities (especially Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India. It will also equip social science students, researchers, and faculty with a lens to capture the experiential realities of marginality in a multicultural and multilingual society of South Asia. In contrast to the textbook-dominated knowledge of research methodology, this workshop aims to provide a field-based perspective on social science research in India, incorporating specialised methodological concepts and tools to understand marginal communities, their worldview, knowledge, vision, and experiences. This workshop will orient researchers to sharpen their critical vision, enabling them to understand marginality in the context of locale and grounded experiences. |
| Learning objectives | • To provide an in-depth perspective to understand the Indian society • To orient the researchers to explore their own eyes to understand marginal society in the context of locale and experiences • To critically examine the practices in social science research on Indian society, which often miss out on invisibilities because of the dominance of Eurocentric methodologies. • To orient researchers to work in a multilingual and multicultural society of South Asia |
| Bibliography | A reader will be provided. |
| Comments | The five-day workshop will be taught by Prof. Badri Narayan (Director, GB Pant Social Science Institute, University of Allahabad) and Prof. Archana Singh (Associate Professor, GB Pant Social Science Institute). |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| unregelmässig | See individual dates | ||
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 08.09.2025 | 10.15-16.00 | Soziologie, Hörsaal 215 |
| Tuesday 09.09.2025 | 10.15-16.00 | Soziologie, Hörsaal 215 |
| Wednesday 10.09.2025 | 10.15-16.00 | Soziologie, Hörsaal 215 |
| Thursday 11.09.2025 | 10.15-16.00 | Soziologie, Hörsaal 215 |
| Friday 12.09.2025 | 10.15-16.00 | Soziologie, Hörsaal 215 |
| Modules |
Modul: Ethnographien (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Methoden der Soziologie und der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Bachelor's degree subject: Sociology) Modul: Methoden der Soziologie und der Gesellschaftswissenschaften: qualitativ (Master's degree subject: Sociology) Module: Europeanization and Globalization (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Pass/fail based on attendance and active participation. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Soziologie |