| CODE | YTH5045 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Puzzled Communities: New Directions in Community Studies | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Youth, Community and Migration Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Globalization has intensified political, economic, cultural and social change: lived realities and the nature of communities are morphing and being recast. As people, commodities, information and money cross international borders with increasing ease, the chasm between the winners and losers of neoliberalism becomes ever so more evident, and communities are seen to become more mobile, diverse and multifaceted. This study-unit seeks to critically reflect on these contemporary processes, to interrogate and conceptualize understandings of community that reflects the heterogeneous and intersectional reality of communities, and how alliances and solidarities may be forged between communities made up of composite representations of identification and belonging. Study-Unit Aims: Engagement with perspectives from community studies and cultural studies to support identification, understanding and scrutiny of community diversity. This also involves critical discussion of concepts and dynamics related to diverse cohorts (gender, sexual identity, socio-economic background, ethnicity etc) and intersections, found in contemporary postmodern and post-industrialist globalized community settings. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Critically engage with understandings and notions of ‘community’, democracy, and belonging within an increasingly globalized and yet localized world; - Evaluate and discuss how processes of neoliberal globalization continues to impact the changing nature of communities, with a look towards the increasing heterogeneity, complexity and multifaceted nature of communities; - Discuss how intersectionality can be deployed as a theoretical paradigm to explore how experiences and structural positions are mediated by dimensions such as gender, age, ‘race’/ethnicity, legal status, dis/ability. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Analyze diversity and intersection in community settings using perspectives from community studies and cultural studies; - Analyze diversity and intersection in community settings in the contexts of glocalization, globalization and postmodernity; - Analyze diversity and intersection in community settings using theoretical paradigms concerning gender, age, ‘race’/ethnicity, legal status, dis/ability. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: Carr-Ruffino, N. (2005). Making Diversity Work. Pearson Prentice-Hall. Malik, K. (2013). Multiculturalism and its discontents: rethinking diversity after 9/11. Seagull Books. Supplementary Readings: Frendo, H. (2005). Coexistence in modernity : a Euromed perspective. In The European legacy, 10(3), pp. 176-177. Guirdham, M. (2009). Communicating across cultures. Macmillan Business. Harzig, C., Juteau L.D. & Schmitt, I., (Eds.). (2003). The social construction of diversity: recasting the master narrative of industrial nations. Berghahn Books. Kymlicka, W. (2007). Multicultural odysseys: navigating the new international politics of diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Malan, J. (2011). Being similar, different, and coexistent. Accord. Parekh, B. (2006). Rethinking multiculturalism: cultural diversity and political theory. Palgrave Macmillan. UNESCO. (2009). Investing in cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. UNESCO. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Peter Marc Farrugia Maria Pisani |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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