30208
Graduate Course
WiSe 16/17: Global Sociologies: Environment, Ruralities and Gender
Renata Campos Motta
Information for students
Requirements: The number of participants should not exceed 20. To participate, students are required to send an one-page essay with their motivation to renata.motta@fu-berlin.de until October 17, 2016.
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Additional information / Pre-requisites
The class starts at 12.30 p.m. (s.t.) and lasts until 14 p.m.
The first session is on October, 25, 2016.
Comments
Sociological theory was constructed as situated knowledge based on at least three constitutive experiences of the world. Firstly, it was created by white men in metro-politan centres of a global empire. Secondly, it reacted to transformative processes taking place at the time, such as industrialization and urbanization, with a narrative of modernity that theorized social evolution as identified with the development of industrial and urban societies. Concomitantly, and here lies the third element, socio-logical theory relied on the premise that an ontological divide between nature and culture was characteristic of modern societies. According to this premise, social ac-tion was not only independent from nature but also increasingly evolved in control-ling nature.
Far from now being part of the history of sociological ideas, these assumptions still play a key role in sociological thought, currently extrapolated in many theorizations of globalization. The seminar aims at discussing the tensions between sociology's assumptions and its efforts to become a global discipline. We will explore the works from social theorists that have critically engaged with the underlying premises of sociological thought.
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Suggested reading
Connel, Raewyn (2008). Southern Theory. Cambridge: Polity.
McMichael, Phillip. (1997). ‘Rethinking Globalization: The Agrarian Question Revisited’. Review of International Political Economy, 4(4): 630–662.
Escobar, Arturo. (1996). ‘Construction Nature: Elements for a Post-Structuralist Political Ecology’. Futures, 28(4): 325–43
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15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2016-10-25 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-11-01 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-11-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-11-15 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-11-22 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-11-29 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-12-06 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-12-13 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-01-03 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-01-10 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-01-17 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-01-24 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-01-31 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-02-07 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2017-02-14 12:00 - 14:00