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Masters Level Courses

IR M 21 E 27
Urbanisation Global Cities and Spatial Configurations
This introductory course to urbanisation processes pays attention to the genealogy of Cities, character of Urban Spaces,possibilities and limits of cities as global and local ethnographic sites, the past, present and future of Urban Spaces/cities, cities in relation to other cities (inter-urban processes), as well as the relationships with political, economic, social and historical materialisations; be they nation-states or a global configurations
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IR M21 O 36
Political Ecology and Dimensions of the Anthropocene
The course introduces political ecology as a powerful interdisciplinary critique of understandings and evaluations of ecological changes. It also becomes a method of mapping political, economic as well as social factors into modes and means of environmental transformations. The course points towards the significant paradigmatic shift implied in the insertion of politics to ecology, the dispossessed (human/ non-human), conservation debates, and questions the understandings of environment as separate from the social structures.
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M.Phil Level Courses (Currently Discontinued)

SIR M II E 1831
Spatial Logic of Urbanisation
This introductory course to urbanisation processes pays attention to the genealogy of Cities, character of Urban Spaces,possibilities and limits of cities as global and local ethnographic sites, the past, present and future of Urban Spaces/cities, cities in relation to other cities (inter-urban processes), as well as the relationships with political, economic, social and historical materialisations; be they nation-states or a global configurations

PhD Level Courses

SIR M II E 1831
Experiential Space and Everyday Life
This introductory course to urbanisation processes pays attention to the genealogy of Cities, character of Urban Spaces,possibilities and limits of cities as global and local ethnographic sites, the past, present and future of Urban Spaces/cities, cities in relation to other cities (inter-urban processes), as well as the relationships with political, economic, social and historical materialisations; be they nation-states or a global configurations
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SIR M II E 1831
History and Social Anthropology of Urban space: Exploring Planning, Architecture and Technology
This introductory course to urbanisation processes pays attention to the genealogy of Cities, character of Urban Spaces,possibilities and limits of cities as global and local ethnographic sites, the past, present and future of Urban Spaces/cities, cities in relation to other cities (inter-urban processes), as well as the relationships with political, economic, social and historical materialisations; be they nation-states or a global configurations
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SIR M II E 1831
Faith in Neoliberal Frontiers: On the Architecture of Public Space and Religiosity in Kerala
This introductory course to urbanisation processes pays attention to the genealogy of Cities, character of Urban Spaces,possibilities and limits of cities as global and local ethnographic sites, the past, present and future of Urban Spaces/cities, cities in relation to other cities (inter-urban processes), as well as the relationships with political, economic, social and historical materialisations; be they nation-states or a global configurations
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SIR M II E 1831
Political Geography of Outer Space
The Course moves through readings and discussions, from the points of view of critical geopolitics and political geography, into the formative ideas of space, in its outer space manifestations. The realm of outer space, in this research course, as much as this is about discourses of sovereign power (manifest destiny), also prompts to go beyond coordinates of state. Methodologically it resorts a lot to ethnographies of popular culture, visual securitization, imaginaries of state space programmes (with a focus on United States of America) and spatiality.
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