Module ANT3109 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3109: Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
The module aims to provide you with an in-depth knowledge of various institutions, organisations, processes, values and resistance movements making up the contemporary Western world. By encouraging you to engage critically with these topics, it also aims to equip you with the means to question taken-for-granted assumptions about the contemporary situation, understand the factors leading to different forms of social and environmental problems, forms of social unrest responding to them, as well as the achievements and shortcomings of contemporary resistance movements.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of a range of perspectives on contemporary capitalism 2. Critically evaluate these perspectives and relate them to empirical studies and findings 3. Critically evaluate the effects of powerful social actors decisions and resistance movements on the social structure, culture, the economy and the environment |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Demonstrate in writing and orally a capacity to reflect upon, apply and criticise theoretical models and empirical findings 5. Demonstrate in writing and orally a capacity question taken-for-granted assumptions |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Engage in complex arguments in writing, orally and in small groups 7. Identify problems and anticipate possible avenues for solving them |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E. (2005) The New Spirit of Capitalism. London: Verso
Bourdieu, P. (1998) Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of our Time. Cambridge: Polity
Della Porta, D. (2015) Social Movements in Times of Austerity. Cambridge: Polity
Duménil, G. and Lévy, D. (2004) Capital Resurgent: The Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution, Boston, MA: Harvard University Press
Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Masquelier, C. (2017) Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age: Towards a Narrative of Emancipation, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan