Ethni-Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Genre and Deviation
Code
722001034
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
José Mapril
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The course aims to:
1) Promote the critical thinking about socio-anthropological research in urban contexts, namely about the interrelation within cities, migratory flows and identities production;
2) Increase students capacity to critically analyze common sense, media, political and scientific discourses about multi-ethnic cities;
3) Provide students indispensable theoretical and methodological tools for the development of semiautonomous research projects in urban contexts.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Population, cities and migration: demographic challenges and theoretical perspectives
2. Inter-ethnicities, identity and discrimination
3. Intersectionatlity: migration, gender and generations
4. The cities as local contexts of reception
5. Migrants as agents of cities transformation
Bibliography
Appadurai, A. (1997) Modernity at Large, Minnesota, Minnesota University Press, 1997.
Brettell, C. (2003) Bringing the city back in: cities as contexts for immigrant incorporation, in Foner, N. (ed.), American arrivals: anthropology engages the new immigration, Santa Fé, New Mexico, School of American Research Press, pp.163-195.
Kofman, E. et al. (2000) Gender and International Migration in Europe. Employment, welfare and politics, London & New York, Routledge.
Modood, T. (2000) Difference, cultural racism and anti-racism in Werbner, P., Modood, T., (eds.), Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-cultural identities and the politics of anti-racism, London, Zed Books, pp.154-172.
Peach, C. (2005) The Ghetto and the Ethnic Enclave, in Varady, D. P. (ed.) Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves and Inequalities, Albany, State University of New York Press pp. 31-48.
Teaching method
Teaching hours are organised into two components:
1) lectures given by the academic responsible;
2) discussions of selected themes, based on:
a. students presentations of scientific texts, suggested by the academic responsible, related to the themes and aims of the seminar
b. students presentations of their on-going research work, which shall be delivered by the end of the seminar.
Evaluation method
Evaluation includes two elements:
1) individual oral presentations of a scientific text proposed on the program of the seminar followed by the delivery of a written critic of the text (40% of the final mark);
2) individual written essay, either a critical bibliography review or an original research based on primary sources (60% of the final mark).
Active participation in the classes is an additional positive element of consideration for the determination of the final mark.