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Module ContentÌý

This is the core module for the MSc in Politics, Violence and Crime (PVC). The PVC programme is designed to provide students with the analytical and methodological skills to develop, pursue, and analyze, ethnographically-informed,Ìý research questions, materials, and projects tied to the interconnected domains of politics, violence, and crime, across a diverse range of spatio-temporal contexts.

The programme aims to furnish students with:Ìý

• A critical understanding of anthropological and socio-political theory;Ìý
• Reflexive praxis of ethnographic method, analysis, and writing;Ìý
• Evaluative knowledge of leading socio-theoretical and ethnographic approaches to topics tied to politics, the state, law, revolution, democracy, violence, identity, criminality, terror, etc., across different times and places.

Within this wider structure, Ìýthis core module is designed to facilitate critical understandings of anthropological and socio-political theory in order to furnish evaluative knowledge of the contributions of ethnographic approaches to the study of politics, violence and crime. Seminars critically examine fundamental debates and key analytical frameworks in political anthropology and socio-political theory centred on the thematics of politics, violence, and crime.Ìý

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Learning OutcomesÌý

• To enable students to identify and critically evaluate major social theoretical approaches to the anthropology of politics, violence, and crime.ÌýTo gain knowledge of the history of leading approaches in political and legal anthropology and theÌý anthropology of crime and violence, as well as critical social theoretical perspectives on these domains beyond the discipline of anthropology.Ìý
• To develop skills in demonstrating originality in assessing both the productive potential and limits of major theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of politics, violence, and crime.
• To develop independent study and learning, including managing time effectively.Ìý
• To develop the critical listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to effectively summarize, evaluate, and communicate complex topics to both specialist academic and lay audiences.
• To develop critical understandings of the constitutively perspectival grounding of all knowledge and to be able to critically engage with such positioning, together with the ethical issues that relate specifically to the production of ethnographic knowledge.Ìý
• To develop critically informed responses to recent injunctions to decolonize scientific knowledge, in relation to the thematic domains of politics, violence and crime.Ìý

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Indicative Delivery methodÌý

The module is taught through interactiveÌýseminar discussions led by the module tutors.

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Additional InformationÌý

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Students are expected to participate in and make informed contributions to the discussions of the assigned readings in tutorials and seminars.Ìý

Students are expected to complete Active Reading assignments for the required readings each week.