There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module will expand the analyses of the development of social and cultural thought as fully embedded in the development of global, colonial processes. Our understandings of society, culture and human social action are explored as contingent on and mediated by the social, economic, cultural and political relationships forged during key historical moments in colonial and imperial power. You will be encouraged to think of and practice social science with a view to becoming reflective social scientists, familiar with both Western notions of the social, as well as global majority critical experiences of modernity. This module will explore black intellectual study, global majority and decolonial thinking as a means to both challenge oppressions and represent the breadth of scholarship that may otherwise be marginalised. You will learn to think about modernity, race and coloniality as imbricated in class and social structural processes. Modern conceptions of social science necessarily need to be grounded in theoretical and historical readings of race, racism, imperialism, settler / colonialism, migration, nationalism, slavery, genocide, immigration, and borders. These are all key focal points for social scientific analyses today.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the social, historical and political construction of racialised categories of difference

LO2: Apply a range of race critical theoretical frameworks to contextualise historical and contemporary arenas of structural and micro inequalities

LO3: Understand the historical development of the social sciences as disciplines of colonial modernity and develop new understandings of their decolonial trajectory

LO4: Demonstrate an awareness of contemporary social divisions in society across intersectional lines of analysis with specific reference to the social policy implications for racialised populations (e.g. migrants and migration)

LO5: Develop a broad knowledge base in social theory from across the Global South and North