| Course Name | Postcolonial Theory and Subaltern Studies |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| SOC 365 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course introduces main concepts of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. It aims to provide a critical discussion of the historical contexts which gave rise to the postcolonial thought along with an exploration of its contribution for decolonizing theories, practices and methods in sociological studies. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course will provide an overview of postcolonial theories and the conceptual work including Antonio Gramsci’s “hegemony”, Edward Said’s “orientalism”, Samir Amin’s “eurocentrism”, Timothy Mitchells’ “enframing”, Homi Bhabha’s “mimicry”, Spivak’s “subalternity”. The course then reviews the works of Benedict Anderson, Partha Chatterjee and Dipesh Chrakrabarty on the link of nationalism and colonialism. It concludes with a discussion of how new agendas of research can be set to develop decolonizing methods in sociological studies. |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Postcolonialism and Hegemony | Young, Robert, J.C. (2003). Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. Chapter 1. Gramsci, Antonio (1971) Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith, London: Lawrence & Wishart. |
| 3 | Orientalism | Said, Edward. 2006 (1978). “Orientalism” in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, 87-92 (London and New York: Routledge). |
| 4 | Eurocentrism | Amin, Samir. (1988) Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy: A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism (2nd ed). Oxford: Pambazuka Press. |
| 5 | The Otherness and Mimicry | Bhabha, Homi K. (1994) “The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism” in The Location of Culture 66-92 (London and New York: Routledge). |
| 6 | Enframing | Mitchell, Timothy. (1991) Colonizing Egypt. University of California Press. Chapter 2: Enframing |
| 7 | The Postcolonial Question | Stuart Hall, (1996). “When Was ‘the Postcolonial’? Thinking at the Limit.” The Postcolonial Question: Common Skies/ Divided Horizons. Eds. Ianin Chambers and Lidia Curti. New York: Routledge, |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | Postcolonial Nationalism | Anderson, Benedict. (1983). Introduction,” and “Cultural Roots,” in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. |
| 10 | The Nationalist Elite | Chatterjee, Partha. (1994). The nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton University Press. Chapter 1 and 3 |
| 11 | Can the Subaltern Speak? | Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. (1985). “Can the subaltern speak?” in in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, 24-27 (London and New York: Routledge). |
| 12 | Who Speaks for the Subaltern? | Chakrabarty, Dipesh. (1994). “Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for Indian Pasts,” in in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, 383-391 (London and New York: Routledge). |
| 13 | Gender of Subaltern | Abu-Lughod, Lila. (2013). Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Harvard University of Press. Chapter 1. |
| 14 | Decolonizing Method | Sandoval, Chela. (2020). Methodology of the Oppressed. University of Minnesota Press. Chapter 1 |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 30 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 35 | |
| Total | 178 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | X | ||||
| 2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | X | ||||
| 3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | |||||
| 8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | |||||
| 9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X | ||||
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