Course description
In this course, PhD students develop skills in working with cultural analyses of crises and their relation to social change. The course deals with cultural processes that influence what counts as a crisis and what does not, as well as how crises interrelates with conjunctures and transitions. The course literature covers a broad range of topics related to crisis, including dystopias, securitization, authoritarian tendencies, haunting, racism, class conflict, neoliberalism, affect, protectionism, and more. The course lecturing is distance based with prerecorded lectures dividend into four themes and four student-led seminars.At the end of the course, you write an individual paper where you engage with texts from the course and use them to develop questions and analyses related to your research project.
PhD students enrolled in doctoral education in social science and humanities are welcome to apply. Since students are expected to rely on their PhD projects in course assignments, it is preferrable that their doctoral research is related to the themes of the course. The course is developed within the Research School FUDEM: https://www.gu.se/fudem
Requirements and Selection
Entry requirements
Admission to the course requires that the student has been admitted to a third-cycle programme.
Selection
1. Doctoral students within the FUDEM graduate school
2. Other doctoral students
Course syllabus
KUF7030
Department
Department of Cultural Sciences
Subject
Humanities, Social Science
Type of course
Subject area course
Research School/Graduate School
The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM)
Keywords
kris, brytningstider , kulturella perspektiv, crisis, conjuncture, cultural analyses