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Lecturer(s)
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Horáková Hana, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Haukanes, Haldis and Susanna Trnka. 2013. Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations: Perspectives from postsocialist Europe and beyond. FocaalJournal of Global and Historical Anthropology 66 (2013): 3-13. Hörschelmann, Kathrin, 2002. History after the End: Post-Socialist Difference in a (Post)modern World. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 52-66. Hörschelmann, Katrin, and Alison Stenning. 2008. "Ethnographies of postsocialist change." Progress in Human Geography 32 (3): 339-361. Jansen, Stef. 2007. Troubled locations: Return, the life course, and transformations of "home" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 49: 15-30. Kołodziejczyk, D. and C. Şandru (2012) Introduction: On colonialism, communism and east-central Europe-some reflections. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48, 113-6. Müller, Martin. 2019. 'Goodbye Postsocialism!' Europe-Asia Studies, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3151362 Owczarzak, J. (2009) Introduction: Postcolonial studies and postsocialism in Eastern Europe. Focaal 2009, 3.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Homework for Teaching
- 1 hour per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduced key trends and approaches in the twenty-first-century anthropology. It focuses on fundamental changes in epistemology and methodology. Students will get to know the most relevant anthropological production from all over the world. The course will primarily focus on the so-called post-logic studies, including postcolonialism and postsocialism of Central and Eastern Europe. The debate on postsocialism in CEE will be presented in a global context. We will discuss the relationships and possible links between theories of post-socialism and post-colonial theory as well as theories of globalization and global governance. The goal is to acquire an enhanced view of how postsocialist lives are defined, experienced and understood by those living them. In so doing, we will focus on the contradictions, paradoxes and ambiguities of post-socialism by looking closely at gender, religious practice and its transformations, politics, economy, heritage. Most examples and texts will focus on V4 countries. The juxtaposition of these topics will allow us to think comparatively of various forms of postsocialism, as well as read more carefully and critically more general descriptions of postsocialism.
After successful passing the course the student will be able to demonstrate a relatively complex knowledge of current approaches and trends in social and cultural anthropology. At the same time, he or she will be able - also after going through seminar work with primary texts - to apply an analytical and critical approach. The newly acquired knowledge and skills will be proved in the discussions on the scholarly texts.
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Prerequisites
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The prerequisite to master this course is to get to know the basics of cultural anthropology at the bachelor study level.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Student performance, Systematic Observation of Student
Active participation in the course. A duty to orally present a chosen journal article and a monograph.
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Recommended literature
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Alexander Boškovič. (2010). Other people´s anthropologies. Ethnographic practice on the margins.. Berghahn Books.
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BERDAHL, Daphne. (2010). On the social life of postsocialism: memory, consumption, Germany.. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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Burawoy, M. et al. (2000). Global ethnography: forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world.. University of California Press.
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Cervinková, H., Buchowski, M., Uherek, Z. (2015). Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe.. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Clarke, A.E. (2005). Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Sage Publications.
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Moore, H. L., Sanders, T. (2005). Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology.. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Ortner, Sherry. (2006). Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject.. Duke University Press Books.
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Ulf Hannerz. (2010). ANTHROPOLOGY´S WORLD: life in a twenty-first-century discipline. Pluto Press.
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Welsch, Robert Louis; Endicott, Kirk. (2013). Taking Sides. Clashing views in anthropology. Mc Graw Hill.
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