HPOB01071U Portugisisk og brasilianske studier - Kultur 2: områdestudier i den portugisisktalende verden

Fælles undervisning – kultur 2

Kurset giver et indblik i grundlæggende temaer og teorier inden for kultur, historie og samfundsforhold og ser på sprogområdernes indbyrdes relationer både globalt og i Europa.

Den fælles del behandler centrale temaer som kolonialisme og imperialisme, afkolonisering og postkolonialisme, identitet, racisme samt faser og facetter af globalisering. Herudover berøres aspekter af det moderne og postmoderne samfund, som f.eks. køn, generation, stat og nation, migration og multi-kulturalitet. Endelig introduceres udvalgte politiske begreber inden for bl.a. med populisme/neoliberalisme, realisme/idealisme, etik, neoliberalisme.

Based on the overview given in the “Introduction to the Portuguese-speaking World”, this follow-up course provides the tools for a more comprehensive understanding of the earlier discussed aspects (and some new ones such as challenges of democracy, urbanization, environmental issues, economic relations, national identities and cultures, among others).

This understanding is achieved by learning to use the theoretical and methodological frameworks of interdisciplinary Area Studies. Students are trained to develop the competence of selecting appropriate concepts, theories and methods from e.g. history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, anthropology and economics and to apply them on topical real-world cases, with a focus on Brazil and/or Portugal.

Students are also introduced to postcolonial/decolonial thinking and made familiar with transnational or “Southern” perspectives on the discussed issues.

Furthermore, students also learn how to organize research, how to generate and work with data, and how to present their findings in appropriate academic form.