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Tampere University

Extent

5 cr

Course dates

1/8/2021 - 31/12/2021

Application period

4/8/2021 - 16/8/2021

Fees

75.00 € (15 €/cr)

Campus

City Centre Campus

City

Tampere

Faculty or School

Faculty of Social Sciences

Language of instruction

English

Code

YKT.SOA.304

Study fields

Society

Mode of study

Independent studies

Study level

Advanced studies

Global Phenomena and Local Practices II, 5, cr

Code: YKT.SOA.304

Language of instruction: English, Finnish

Description

Students are able to describe the global economic, political and cultural structures and processes from an anthropological perspective and to pose analytical questions concerning the relationship between the local and the global. Students learn about ethnographic research that analyses the links between global processes and relations and local practices. Students understand the historical development of globalisation.

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Prerequisites

Teaching material

Three of the following books:

Englund, Harri (2006) Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ferguson, James (2006) Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World. Durham: Duke University Press.

Li, Tanya Murray (2007) The Will to Improve. Governmentality, Development and the Practice of Politics. Duke University Press.

Salazar, Noel B. & Jayaram, K (eds.) (2016) Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements. Oxford: Berghahn.

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