SOC457 CULTURE, IDENTITY &POST-COLONIAL THEOR
Course Code: |
2320457 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
Department: |
Sociology |
Language of Instruction: |
English |
Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
Course Coordinator: |
Assist.Prof.Dr BARIÞ MÜCEN |
Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course will focus on the strategies by which demarcations between self and other and corollary distinctions between First World-Third World, West-East and masculine-feminine are deployed in various cultural and political discourses. The emergent and contested dimensions of modern, gendered, national and cultural identities will be examined through post-colonial theorists such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon.