SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

To be confirmed.

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Module coordinator

Dr S Pipyrou

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Module Staff

Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

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Module description

The module examines the contribution of anthropology to critically interrogating the Cold War – one of the most challenging political periods on a global scale. We will connect the disparate ways in which nations and societies experienced the Cold War by looking at individual experiences that radically altered peoples’ lives. Through themes such as historical revisionism, family displacement and dismantling, ruins, and the senses we will question the Cold War as the politics of radical imagination, propaganda, traumatic belonging and silence. We will finally trace the ways in which the Cold War is still lived and articulated in contemporary socio-political life.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SA2001 AND PASS SA2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 hour lecture (11 weeks), 1 hour seminar (11 weeks)