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The aim of this course is to enable students to conduct in-depth analysis and interpretations of cultural productions. The methodological approach is to encourage students to explore intersectional readings of artworks, films, performances, and texts, with a particular emphasis on shifting thought positions.

Politics of representation has been a central mode of inquiry for the discipline of cultural studies. Over time this necessary critique of normative values and perspectives, has evolved to encourage students to think about the powerplay, symbolism, and tensions infused within cultural productions. In this sense the word representation concerns identity and identification, issues of presence and absence, and also ways of articulation. Thus, this course gets into the details, focusing on specific “artefacts”, and exploring how “politics” infuses aesthetics as well as maker/subject positions, and ultimately influences how and why things are made. On this course students are also encouraged to sensitively consider the affective dimensions of representations and encounters with them, by navigating the discomfort that may come from recognising when cultural artefacts/productions are used and produced as weapons against citizens, communities, travellers, and social actors.

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