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Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM232: Theorising the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Ibn Khald?n: the birth of social science; universal history; ‘asabiyyah
- Marx: historical materialism; capitalism
- Weber – Linz: secularization; spirit; capitalism; patrimonialism; sultanism; authoritarianism
- Gramsci: hegemony; historicism; state and civil society
- Edward Said: Orientalism; post-colonialism; post-structuralism
- Habermas – Nancy Fraser: public sphere; communicative rationality
- Benedict Anderson – Anthony Smith: nationalism; ethnie; imagined communities
- Butler and Harraway: queer theory; performativity; masculinity
- Rentier states: rentierism
- Contemporary anthropological theory: the imaginary
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 22 | 11 x 2-hour seminars |
| Guided independent study | 60 | Reading for seminars |
| Guided independent study | 68 | Completion of course work |
Online Resources
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