SANb1017 Seminar on contemporary social and cultural theory

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Katarína Azzamová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Patrik Pýcha (seminar tutor)
Ing. Soňa Enenkelová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
none
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
To better understand contemporary anthropological theories via reading and discussion of the relevant texts.
Learning outcomes
The ability to detect the preferential theory of the author, once reading his/her ethnography. The ability to propose the most suitable theory to deal with a particular topic in anthropology.
Syllabus
  • 1. Idea and theory of social science
  • 2. Archeology of knowledge and idea of the "anthropos"
  • 3. Power, knowledge and governing/Societies of surveillance
  • 4. Social structure, post-structuralism, symbolic anthropology
  • 5. Social field theory, praxis, habitus, sensuality and senses
  • 6. Anthropos figure today and posthumanism
  • 7. More-than-human agency and sociality/ Symbiosis
  • 8. Anthropocene_ more-than-human worlds (ANT, Neomaterialism)
  • 9. Cultural logic of modern colonialism and post-colonialism
  • 10. Cultural imagery, museums, exhibitions, galeries.
Literature
    required literature
  • LATOUR, Bruno. Kde to jsem? : poučení z lockdownu pro pozemšťany. Praha: Svobodná knihovna, z. s., 2022, 121 stran. ISBN 9788090880702. info
  • ZUBOFF, Shoshana. Věk kapitalismu dohledu : boj o budoucnost lidstva u nové hranice moci. Translated by Sylva Ficová. Vydání první. Praha: Argo, 2022, 725 stran. ISBN 9788025739365. info
  • Staying with the trouble : making kin in the Chthulucene. Edited by Donna Jeanne Haraway. London, [England]: Duke University Press, 2016, 1 online. ISBN 9780822373780. URL info
  • HAYLES, Katherine. How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, xiv, 350. ISBN 0226321452. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
please see the current sylabus for the particular cohort
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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