300666 Understanding Contemporary Southeast Asia (MA: Soziologie der globalen Welt) (S) (SoSe 2024)
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This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the extraordinary diversity of Southeast Asian peoples, cultures, and political economy. This is a dynamic region, and continues to experience struggles over democratization, development, national identity, state building and so on. In this course, we discuss how we can make sense of these multi-faceted political dynamics and social changes? We examine the region of Southeast Asia, broadly imagined comprising of the ten states that comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Timor-Leste. In addition to providing a broad and comparative survey of “traditional” Southeast Asia, the course will place special emphasis on the intellectual and practical challenges associated with modernization and development, highlighting the ways different Southeast Asian nations contend with the forces of globalization. Organised around key concepts (eg, nationalism, democracy, civil society, human rights) students will engage with a range of literature.
Requirements for participation, required level
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The course is open to MA students and no prior knowledge of Southeast Asia is expected.
Bibliography
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Useful introductory texts:
Barker, Joshua, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist (2012). Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3741-9Mills, Mary Beth (1999). Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 0-1835-2654-X
Scott, James C. (1985). Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-300-03641-1
Teaching staff
Dates ( Calendar view )
| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| weekly | Mi | 16-18 | C0-259 | 10.04.-17.07.2024
not on: 5/1/24 |
Subject assignments
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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| 29-WS-GSG Globale Ordnungen und Governance | Forschungsseminar | Study requirement
Graded examination |
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| 30-M-Soz-M8a Soziologie der globalen Welt a | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| 30-M-Soz-M8b Soziologie der globalen Welt b | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| 30-M-Soz-M8c Soziologie der globalen Welt c | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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The binding module descriptions contain further information, including specifications on the "types of assignments" students need to complete. In cases where a module description mentions more than one kind of assignment, the respective member of the teaching staff will decide which task(s) they assign the students.
Learning objectives:
- Students acquire an in-depth understanding of selected issues of development and issues around development
- Students are exposed to a range of theories regarding development and development issues
- Students are encouraged to think about development anthropologically and to understand ways in which anthropologists have engaged with development issues.
Key skills:
• Discussion skills: able to present ideas clearly, formulate a coherent argument, respond to other ideas constructively, and develop confidence in one’s ability to engage with other people in a discussion.
• Reading skills: able to prepare for the weekly seminars and the essay, identify key arguments and evidence used in a piece of writing and then critically appraising them.
• Writing skills: able to prepare an essay, including the abilities to identify a relevant topic and synthesize academic sources, and construct an original and well-presented argument.
• Research skills: locate information that is relevant to the themes of the module.
• Self-reliance: able to manage time efficiently and be sufficiently reliable for group work, and to independently locate, evaluate, and use anthropological literature.
• Group work: able to prepare presentations, organize meetings
• Presentation skills: be able to present information clearly and confidently, and to develop confidence in presenting ideas in a supportive atmosphere
E-Learning Space
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- 16 Students to be reached directly via email
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- Last update basic details/teaching staff:
- Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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- Friday, February 2, 2024
- Type(s) / SWS (hours per week per semester)
- S / 2
- Language
- This lecture is taught in english
- Department
- Faculty of Sociology
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