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ANTH808 – Urban Anthropology: Multiculture City
2014 – S2 Evening
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Gabriele Marranci
Contact via gabriele.marranci@mq.edu.au
+61-2-9850-8040
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Credit points
4
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MAppAnth or PGDipAppAnth or MDevCult or PGDipDevCult or PGCertDevCult or MPASR or PGDipPASR or PGCertPASR or 4cp in ANTH units at 800 level
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Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
ANTH708
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| Unit description |
Unit description
For the first time in human history, the majority of the world's population live in urban areas. Yet these cities are vastly different in terms of life opportunities, economic profiles, built environments and political institutions. How might we think about the relationships between the built environment, history, and individual identity? What makes a city liveable? This unit introduces students to urban anthropology through focusing on the organisation of space, including on architectural forms and urban planning in contemporary cities. It explores how space and its design are intimately connected to particular modernist projects such as nationalism, colonialism, socialism, apartheid etc. Students will also consider a variety of anthropological perspectives that seek to explain the diversity and similarity of urban cultures and their spatial forms, as well as ways that the built environment might both symbolize and generate culture, power and individual or collective identities.
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Analyse how people use city space with particular political projects of nation-building, colonialism, socialism etc.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to urban studies
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Actively participate in discussion of Urban anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Due |
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| Class participation | 20% | Continues |
| Class Presentation | 35% | To be agreed with the students |
| Mind Map- Essay | 15% | Week 7 19/9/2014 |
| Research Essay | 30% | Week 13 14/11/2014 |
Class participation
Due: Continues
Weighting: 20%
Students are required to have read the assigned reading and attend the seminars. Students are required to take active part to the discussion and contribute to the class activities
If a student attend less than 60% of the course (without a request for Disruption of Studies), s/he will fail automatically the course.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Actively participate in discussion of Urban anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
Class Presentation
Due: To be agreed with the students
Weighting: 35%
Students will be required to select a topic linked to one of the thematic discussions and prepare a 15-20 min Power Point which will be then presented to the class after being submitted 4 days in advance to the Lecturer. After 4 days form the presentation students are required to present a Self- Assessment to the Lecturer of 250-350 words and a mark.
So the 35% mark is divided in this way: 15% submission of the Power Point - 15% Presentation- 5% Self- Assessment
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Analyse how people use city space with particular political projects of nation-building, colonialism, socialism etc.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to urban studies
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Actively participate in discussion of Urban anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
Mind Map- Essay
Due: Week 7 19/9/2014
Weighting: 15%
Students will be required to submit a Mind Map of their final essay which not only shows the development of each section of the essay but also the Literature the student want to use for each section. The free software http://www.xmind.net/ can be used for this task .
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Research Essay
Due: Week 13 14/11/2014
Weighting: 30%
Students are required to submit the fully developed Research Essay in iLearn Turnitin according with instructions provided on iLearn (Assessment section)
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Analyse how people use city space with particular political projects of nation-building, colonialism, socialism etc.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to urban studies
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Delivery and Resources
This section will be available on iLearn
Unit Schedule
NOTICE ALL READINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON iLEARN
Week One - Introduction: The Anthropology of Cities Reading Low, S. M. (1996). The anthropology of cities: Imagining and theorizing the city. Annual Review of Anthropology, 25, 383-409.
Week Two: What is Urban Anthropology? Reading: Eames, E., & Goode, J. (1977). ‘What is urban anthropology?’ in Eames, E., & Goode, J. Anthropology of the city: An introduction to urban anthropology. Englewood Cli!s, N.J: Prentice-Hall.
Week Three: From Ancient Cities to an Urban World Reading: Flanagan, W. G. (1993). ‘From Ancient Cities to an Urban World’ in in Flanagan, W. G. Contemporary urban sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp, 33-70.
Week Four: Investigating the City Reading: Robert E. Park (1925) ‘The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment’ in Park, R. E., Burgess, E. W., McKenzie, R. D., & Wirth, L. The city. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press., pp. 1-47.
Week Five: Fieldwork in Urban Context Reading: Eames, E., & Goode, J. (1977). ‘Method, Technic, and Ethics’ in Eames, E., & Goode, J. Anthropology of the city: An introduction to urban anthropology. Englewood Cli!s, N.J: Prentice-Hall.
Week Six: After the Cosmopolitan?
Reading: Keith, M. (2005). ‘After the cosmopolitan? The limits of the multicultural city and the mutability of racism’ in Keith, M. After the cosmopolitan?: Multicultural cities and the future of racism. London: Routledge.pp 37-60.
Week Seven: Consumption and Urban Culture
Reading: Thorns, D. C. (2002). ‘Consumption and urban culture’, in Thorns, D. C. The transformation of cities: Urban theory and urban life. Houndmills, Balsingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave. pp, 120-148
Week Eight: The Controlled City Reading: Iveson, K. (February 01, 2010). The wars on gra#ti and the new military urbanism. City,14, 115-134. Reading: Murphy, A. K. (July 01, 2012). "Litterers": How Objects of Physical Disorder Are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 642, 1, 210-227.
Week Eight: The Controlled City Reading: Iveson, K. (February 01, 2010). The wars on gra#ti and the new military urbanism. City,14, 115-134. Reading: Murphy, A. K. (July 01, 2012). "Litterers": How Objects of Physical Disorder Are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 642, 1, 210-227.
Week Ten: Between war and city Reading: Agier, M., Nice, R., & Wacquant, L. (January 01, 2002). Between war and city: Towards an urban anthropology of refugee camps. Ethnography, 3, 3, 317-341.
Week eleven: Religion and the City 1 Reading: Gale, R. (February 01, 2008). Locating Religion in Urban Planning: Beyond ‘Race’ and Ethnicity?. Planning Practice and Research, 23, 1, 19-39. 2 Reading: Marranci,G. (January 01, 2004). Constructing an Islamic Environment in Northern Ireland. Built Environment, 30, 17-29.
Week Twelve: Course Overview and Last Thoughts
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Graduate Capabilities
PG - Discipline Knowledge and Skills
Our postgraduates will be able to demonstrate a significantly enhanced depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content knowledge in their chosen fields.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Analyse how people use city space with particular political projects of nation-building, colonialism, socialism etc.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to urban studies
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment tasks
- Class participation
- Class Presentation
- Mind Map- Essay
- Research Essay
PG - Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking
Our postgraduates will be capable of utilising and reflecting on prior knowledge and experience, of applying higher level critical thinking skills, and of integrating and synthesising learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments. A characteristic of this form of thinking is the generation of new, professionally oriented knowledge through personal or group-based critique of practice and theory.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Analyse how people use city space with particular political projects of nation-building, colonialism, socialism etc.
- Actively participate in discussion of Urban anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment tasks
- Class participation
- Class Presentation
- Mind Map- Essay
- Research Essay
PG - Research and Problem Solving Capability
Our postgraduates will be capable of systematic enquiry; able to use research skills to create new knowledge that can be applied to real world issues, or contribute to a field of study or practice to enhance society. They will be capable of creative questioning, problem finding and problem solving.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Analyse how people use city space with particular political projects of nation-building, colonialism, socialism etc.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to urban studies
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment task
- Research Essay
PG - Effective Communication
Our postgraduates will be able to communicate effectively and convey their views to different social, cultural, and professional audiences. They will be able to use a variety of technologically supported media to communicate with empathy using a range of written, spoken or visual formats.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to urban studies
- Actively participate in discussion of Urban anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment tasks
- Class participation
- Class Presentation
- Mind Map- Essay
- Research Essay
PG - Engaged and Responsible, Active and Ethical Citizens
Our postgraduates will be ethically aware and capable of confident transformative action in relation to their professional responsibilities and the wider community. They will have a sense of connectedness with others and country and have a sense of mutual obligation. They will be able to appreciate the impact of their professional roles for social justice and inclusion related to national and global issues
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Account for the diversity of urban environments
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Actively participate in discussion of Urban anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment tasks
- Class participation
- Class Presentation
PG - Capable of Professional and Personal Judgment and Initiative
Our postgraduates will demonstrate a high standard of discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgment. They will have the ability to make informed choices and decisions that reflect both the nature of their professional work and their personal perspectives.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Identify relationships between the city, culture, and individual subjectivity
- Gain greater understanding of techniques for investigating experience, including ethnography, field research, and comparative approaches in Urban Anthropology
- Improve presentation and oral expression skills at a postgraduate level
- Improve writing and critical reading skills at a postgraduate level
Assessment tasks
- Class Presentation
- Mind Map- Essay
- Research Essay