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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-428 Cultural Practice/Cultural Politics

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

One 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description:

This subject offers a critical review of 'cultural politics'. We begin by considering some of the major twentieth-century options available for theorising cultural politics. Students will produce specific studies of the political dimensions of cultural practices in order to re-think perceived notions of effect, consciousness, subjectivity, ideology and representation. Our aim is to appreciate and explore the inter-relationships and dynamics of cultural practices, cultural politics and power.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6000 words or an agreed equivalent in image/sound text.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department.


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