SANb2042 Urban Anthropology

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2025
Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: PhDr. Patrick Laviolette, PhD.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Předpoklady
Enthusiasm for the course, active English
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 25 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/25, pouze zareg.: 0/25, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/25
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 13 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
To gain general overview and knowledge about main topis of urban anthropology as a subdiscipline of social anthropology. To be able to link theoretical knowledge to practical observation of the space of the city in which the student lives. To be able to draw possible theoretical academic conclusions from observation and personal experience of urban dwelling.
Výstupy z učení
To be able to interpret urban space through anthropological lens; To draft a research proposal linked to urban space; To understand own experience in urban space through academic perspective;
Osnova
  • This course looks at the expanding academic field of Urban Anthropology. City living is increasingly becoming the norm of human experience. According to UN predictions, three-quarters of the world's population will live in cities by 2050. Built environments are thus crucial to academic study, policy-making and public debate. As a comprehensive sub-field of anthropology, urban ethnography / anthropology is relatively new, having only really established itself in the second half of the twentieth century, with the intention of scrutinising cities as they relate to the sociocultural experiences and practices of urban dwellers in relation to larger contexts of domesticity, the work force, leisure activities and migration. We will examine innovative, comparative and interdisciplinary frameworks for research and analysis which would address the scale and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. The course also explores the ethno-history of urbanism from colonial to contemporary periods. It investigates how complex urban systems respond to the pressures of growth, change and globalisation, with new infrastructures of organisation and civic governance that both complement and threaten social and environmental equity. The aim is to foster a reflexive understanding of the socio-cultural, economic and spatial issues involved in urban growth, decay and regeneration. The particular histories and engagement in wider public debates across Europe and internationally regarding the future design and planning of global cities would mean that this cross-cultural perspective provide a distinctive feature for the course.
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • WHYTE, William Foote. Street corner society : the social structure of an italian slum. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955, xx, 364. info
    neurčeno
  • The cultures of cities. Edited by Sharon Zukin. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995, xiv, 322. ISBN 1557864373. info
Výukové metody
Field trip/excursions, lectures, homework, reading, group presentation, individual writing
Metody hodnocení
Presentation of own research draft (written and oral) Final exma
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
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