Culture and Politics | Humanities & Social Sciences

Culture and Politics

Course Number: 
HSL685
LTP structure: 
3-0-0
Discipline: 
Literature
Multi. Disc.
Credit: 
3.0

Pre-requisite

N/A

Course Objective

· To familiarise students with various definitions of “culture” and the terms in contradistinction with which culture has been defined (nature, religion, race, civilization, history etc.);
· To introduce the concepts and methodologies in studying Culture and the plurality of cultures in terms of meaning making and cultural production;
· To study the processes of cultural formation and transformation and grasp their political and ideological dimension;
· To approach politics beyond the specific formalities of state power and approach it through the lens of everyday, material cultures

Course Content

The course will focus on:
· cultural theory, methodologies, interdisciplinarity of studying culture; debates regarding high and low culture, popular culture; culture as an all-encompassing term including material culture, ethos, ethnos and way of life; anthropology, philology, historiography and the use of culture with respect to language, gender, race, religion, caste, and nation; culture as practices, representation, translation, identity, production, commodification; art, culture industry, media and the new communication technologies; politics of culture: heritage, conservation, appropriation

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