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| Semester | fall semester 2023 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | George-Paul Meiu (gp.meiu@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The domains of family life, kinship, and intimacy represent central sites for the construction and contestation of social and political belonging. This course introduces students to classic and contemporary theories of society, kinship, and citizenship by way of understanding how economic production, sovereignty, and everyday life emerge, in part, through the regulation of relatedness. Anthropologists of the late nineteenth century and of the first half of the twentieth century turned kinship into a key domain for understanding social cohesion and political organization. In the past three decades—following feminist, Marxist, and queer critiques—anthropologists explored how discourses about kinship and the family anchored the ideologies and practices of modernity, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. In this course, we ask: What can various forms of kinship teach us about the politics of social reproduction and the making of citizenship—its modes of belonging and exclusion—in the contemporary world? Why do national and transnational institutions care about how we relate to each other, how we build families, and whether we reproduce? Why do we desire that our intimate lives be recognized by the state and by the agents of the global market? And, can our ways of crafting relatedness in everyday life transform how we come to belong to larger political institutions? |
| Admission requirements | The number of participants is limited to 25 people. The places are assigned according to date of enrollment and subject of study. Priority will be given to the subjects listed under "modules". |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Tuesday | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 19.09.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 26.09.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 03.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 10.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 17.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 24.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 31.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 07.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 14.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 21.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 28.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 05.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 12.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Tuesday 19.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Modules |
Modul: Kulturtechnische Dimensionen (Master's degree program: Cultural Techniques) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Soziologische Theorie MA (Master's degree subject: Sociology) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Sachthemen (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Module: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Arbeit, Migration und Gesellschaft (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Staatlichkeit, Entwicklung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| 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 Ethnologie |