Syllabus
1) 19.10. Area Studies: concepts, approaches, discipline(s)? (Jiří Kocián & Nataliia Rozmaritsyna) 2) 26.10. 'Between debt and democracy': Overindebtedness and resistance in a Czech deindustrializing town (Jitka Králová) 3) 2.11. "Value orientations of Russian youth" (Marina Perglová) 4) 9.11. "Coexistence, cooperation, integration in Central Asia: Global prism vs. local priorities" (Anna Jordanová) 5) 16.11. "Beyond traditional dichotomy: multifaceted nostalgia for communism in contemporary Romania" (Klára Smitková) 6) 23.11. "Building legitimation narratives: role of conceptual metaphor in governance legitimacy" (Klára Kosová) 7) 30.11. "The making of Neoliberal City: On Urban Anthropology of Post-socialist Cities" (Kateřina Fuksová) 8) 7.12. "Jennifer Kent’s the Nightingale: Film representation of the violence of colonial history" (Jakub Šindelář) 9) 14.12. "Small state role-taking: diverging foreign policy trajectories in the Gulf" (Petr Buriánek) 10) 21.12. "Final discussion - conclusions"
Annotation
The course serves as an introduction to Area Studies seen as an interdisciplinary field where different methodologies, topics and theories provide insight into links between past and present affairs.
All the important information, presentation scheduling and reading distribution is facilitated via Moodle platform: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5314#section-0.
Each class is led by an expert presenting their topics, who navigates the students through various theoretical, methodological and empirical issues.