This class is about cultural encounter in borderlands. Collaborating with students from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, students will have to engage in a serious dialogue about lives in the borderlands. In doing comparative and practical Border Studies and analyzing border lives and border stories, we hope that you will learn from each other. You will be able to critically reflect upon border issues. You will also engage in a critical intervention in identity construction processes that involve cross-border or other identity conflicts and power differentials. The practical intercultural knowledge acquired in this course will enable you to intervene critically in a real-life situation.
In doing ethnographic analysis, you will engage in discussions of both a general as well as a context-specific nature on how borders are experienced differently by different people, how bordering and de/rebordering processes have shaped identities, and how processes of the construction of ”Europe” and ”Europeanness” are structured differently in different contexts.
This class should be taken in combination with Klaus Heissenberger’s tutorial ”Borderlands Stories: Ethnography, Film, and Photography.”
Please sign up via email with Tobias Schank: tobias.schank@uni-saarland.de |
