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Culture, Community, Identity

Overview

  • Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
  • Convenor: Dr Yasmeen Narayan
  • Assessment: a 4000-word essay (100%) and an unassessed five-minute presentation

Module description

This interdisciplinary module examines postcolonial cultures, communities and identities framed by broader discussions on the persistent criminalisation of historically marginalised and minoritised communities and contemporary histories of colonial occupation and warfare. We will examine debates on:

  • the ethics and politics of work on racism, postcoloniality, decolonisation
  • orientalism, primitivism, colonial nationalisms
  • retheorising culture, community, hybridity and creolisation
  • postcolonial belonging, urban cultures and diaspora
  • contemporary global multiculture, ‘race’ and beauty
  • sexual violence, the imperial histories of 'western feminisms', ‘carceral feminisms,’ 'homonationalisms' and the ‘War on Terror', new antiwar, antinationalist feminisms
  • postcolonial racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements
  • histories of criminalisation, police violence and community resistance in Britain
  • 'whiteness', contemporary legacies of empire.