CCST7340 | COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES

Concepts and practices related to colonialism and post-colonialism, particularly focusing on power relations found in such contexts. Exploring sources of different ethnographic nature (texts, films, photos, live testimonies...) to reach tangible experiences and practices for the purpose of critically analyzing them, and thus identifying the central daily and life issues faced in the context of colonialism and post-colonialism. These include resistance, adaptation, steadfastness, dependability and self-sufficiency, discourse and language, social and class formations, among others. Accordingly, contextualize these issues and experiences to oppose dominant colonial knowledge on the one hand, and the materiality of colonial presence on the other.