ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE TERRITORY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

LAI Franco Marcello

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites are not required.

AF code:

A000948

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Conventional oral exam regarding the course topics.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course of Anthropology of territory aims to provide concepts and tools for understanding dynamics of use of space with regard to processes of social and cultural change.
The course of Anthropology of the territory then intends to provide:
- main notes of social sciences research;
- comparative approach;
- analytical models and ethnographic case studies;
- models of anthropological analysis concerning urban and rural spaces.

Contents

The course proposes following contents:
- elements of anthropology of territory and landscape, also with reference to other social sciences
- uses and transformations of urban spaces and landscapes and processes of social and cultural change;
- urban spaces and social inequality, globalization, mobility and gentrification;
- urban spaces and rural areas, leisure and tourism.

Recommended Bibliography

ATTENDING STUDENTS:
1) Paolo Barbieri. È successo qualcosa alla città. Manuale di antropologia urbana, Donzelli, Roma, 2010 (pages 3-96).
2) Federico Scarpelli, Caterina Cingolani, a cura di, Passare ponte. Trastevere e il senso del luogo, Carocci, Roma, 2013 (pages 11‐239).
3) Massimo Bressan, Sabrina Tosi Cambini, Zone di transizione. Etnografia urbana nei quartieri e nello spazio pubblico, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011 (pages 167-252).

NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS:
1) Paolo Barbieri. È successo qualcosa alla città. Manuale di antropologia urbana, Donzelli, Roma, 2010 (pages 3-96, 187-204).
2) Federico Scarpelli, Caterina Cingolani, a cura di, Passare ponte. Trastevere e il senso del luogo, Carocci, Roma, 2013 (pages 11‐239).
3) Massimo Bressan, Sabrina Tosi Cambini, Zone di transizione. Etnografia urbana nei quartieri e nello spazio pubblico, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011 (pages 7-52, 167-252).

Teaching Methods

Large use of Power Point presentations and other audiovisual materials characterizes the course of Media Anthropology.

Borrowed courses

ANTHROPOLOGY OF TERRITORY 1
LETTERE, FILOLOGIA MODERNA E INDUSTRIA CULTURALE - Lingua, Letteratura e Geostoria della Sardegna

Other courses

Course year: 1

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN SOCIAL WORK
6 credits - Caratterizzante
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE TERRITORY
9 credits - Caratterizzante
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION
6 credits - Caratterizzante
EVALUATION OF SOCIAL CARE SERVICES
6 credits - Caratterizzante
SOCIAL STATISTICS (ADVANCED COURSE)
6 credits - Caratterizzante
ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND RELATED IMPACT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
FOUNDATIONS, THEORIES AND CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL WORK
9 credits - Affine/Integrativa
SOCIAL POLICIES FOR THE FAMILY
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
VOCATIONAL INTERNSHIP
12 credits - Altro

Course year: 2

CORPORATE STRATEGIES AND POLICIES
6 credits - Caratterizzante
EUROPEAN UNION LAW
6 credits - Caratterizzante
SOCIAL POLITICS OF MIGRATION
6 credits - Caratterizzante
FINAL TEST
18 credits - Lingua/Prova Finale
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
6 credits - Altro
FRENCH LANGUAGE
6 credits - Altro
GERMAN LANGUAGE
6 credits - Altro
HUMANISTIC COMPUTER SCIENCE
6 credits - Altro
SPANISH LANGUAGE
6 credits - Altro

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