KAY629 - SOCIETY and POLITICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOCIETY and POLITICS IN THE MODERN WORLD | KAY629 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Academic Staff | |||||
| Course objective | For the past two centuries, political and economic life in the modern world has been under the direct and/or indirect domination of Western imperial powers. The manifestation of this domination in the social sciences and humanities is Eurocentrism. With a thematic focus on social, political and economic life in the regions outside the West, this course aims to question modern Western domination. Particularly taking Postcolonial Studies and its critical observations regarding the place and role of racism, colonialism and slavery to be the essential phenomena in the making of the modern world as its point of departure, this course goes into a thematic investigation of the history and politics of the world outside the West from the 19th century to the present. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | The following themes/titles are covered: Postcolonial Criticism, the Psychology of Colonialism, Seeing and Not Seeing Like a State, 'The Myth of Continents', the Haitian Revolution, The Fourth World: Africans and Indigenous Peoples in the West, Anthropology of the Middle East, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism, Ethnographic Knowledge and Nation-Building in the Soviet Union, Subalterns in Latin America, China and the World Economy, Peasant Insurgencies in Colonial India, and Linguistic and Economic Underdevelopment of Africa. | |||||
| References | Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2016. Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Hirsch, Francine. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Lewis, Martin W., Kären Wigen. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1982. Rodriguez, Ileana, ed. The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. New York: Zed Books, 2021. wa Thiongo, Ngugi. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Oxford: James Currey, 1986. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon, 2015. Zia-Ebrahimi, Reza. The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction |
| Week 2 | Colonialism/Postcolonialism |
| Week 3 | Psychology of Colonialism |
| Week 4 | Seeing and Not Seeing Like a State |
| Week 5 | "The Myth of Continents" |
| Week 6 | The Haitian Revolution |
| Week 7 | The Fourth World: Africans and Indigenous Peoples in the West |
| Week 8 | Midterm Exam |
| Week 9 | Anthropology of the Middle East |
| Week 10 | Rethinking Iranian Nationalism |
| Week 11 | Ethnographic Knowledge and Nation-Building in the Soviet Union |
| Week 12 | Subalterns in Latin America |
| Week 13 | China and the World Economy |
| Week 14 | Peasant Insurgencies in Colonial India |
| Week 15 | Preparation for the Final Exam |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 50 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 2 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 12 | 12 | 144 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Total Workload | 29 | 32 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. To acquire advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of specialization. To understand the interactions with other disciplines and analyze social structure and dynamics. | X | ||||
| 2. To develop skills for doing and planning research, and analyzing/evaluating data in the field of specialization. To find solutions to the problems faced during the research process. | X | ||||
| 3. To contribute to related literature by conducting a research independently or as a member of a research team. To do leadership and to have a vision. | X | ||||
| 4. To follow the scientific literature in the field of specialization. To evaluate the data by critical thinking and to be committed to lifelong learning. | X | ||||
| 5. To communicate effectively in oral and written base. To master a foreign language and to use computer and information technology effectively in the field of specialization. To share knowledge at scientific platforms with this oral and written communication skill. | X | ||||
| 6. To feel social responsibility. To have a capacity and awareness to contribute to the society. | X | ||||
| 7. To appreciate social, cultural, scientific, and ethical values while conducting studies in the field of specialization. To contribute to the solution of problems faced in this process in the work life. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest