香港六合彩

The purpose of this interdisciplinary, experimental course is to encourage students to think critically about the ways in which we 鈥� scholars, commentators, decisionmakers and 鈥榣ay鈥� human beings 鈥� divide up the world into pieces, categorizing, delineating and fencing off certain areas from other ones; and to provide theoretical and methodological tools, equipping students to deploy a critical approach to 鈥渁rea鈥� in their academic and professional (and other) lives. In particular, it encourages participants to think about what heterodox visions of the world can be drawn up from an 鈥淓ast European鈥� vantage point; or rather, from the point of view of what we are calling the 鈥淕lobal East鈥� 鈥� a porous zone, centred-on but not restricted to East Europe, which encompasses the (post-)socialist world and its transnational entanglements.

Students will be encouraged throughout to think critically about the following key questions:

路 How reflexive have we really been about the definitions and genealogies of our divisions of the world?

路 What can we do to convert reflexivity into real-life frontier-shifting and boundary-dismantling or re-drawing?

路 How commensurable 鈥� and limited 鈥� are the ways in which we have conceived of the world鈥檚 intense interconnectedness so far? What is the difference between globalization and mondialization, internationalism and transnationalism, post-colonialism, post-socialism and non-alignment, location and locality?

路 How does the current practice of area studies challenge or reproduce inequalities, particularly between the 鈥榗ore鈥� countries of the 鈥淕lobal North鈥�, and those in regions that tend to be studied in area studies programs?

路 Can ripping up the atlas also help us to shatter the Chinese Walls between scholarly disciplines?

路 What heterodox, counter-canonical (Global Eastern and otherwise) mappings and imaginaries of area can we draw on? Which new terrains should our re-mappings of area converge on, and who or what can we follow to guide us on our way?

路 Can we read Gombrowicz鈥檚 Transatlantyk alongside Gilroy鈥檚 or Cole鈥檚 Black Atlantic? Ought we tread the paths of the refugees, the diplomats, the terrorists, the hedge-funders or the trafficked women?