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20.5.2005 - Activities
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Within the framework of the Bologna agreement, I am wanting to prepare an application for Commission support under the Erasmus Mundus scheme for a Masters degree course which would enable the cross-national application of the thinking of Pierre Bourdieu. The scheme requires the collaboration of at least three European institutions and students must take modules in at least two of these institutions. The Commission supports the introduction of approved courses and it also offers scholarships to enable non-EU students to follow these courses. I am wanting to make preparations now for an application to be made by May, 2006, which would potentially allow an approved course to commence in the autumn of 2007.
I would like to introduce a course which, provisionally, I would call an MA in International Social Anthropology. My idea is that the course would provide opportunities for the international study of Bourdieu’s work and, importantly, would allow for the application of Bourdieu’s theory of practice as outlined in “The Three Forms of Theoretical Knowledge” (Bourdieu, 1973) to cross-cultural understanding. My intention would be that the course would encourage inter-institutionally within Europe the analysis of the social conditions of production of Western Social Anthropology (Western ‘objectivism’) and would also facilitate a socio-analytical encounter (or an analysis of that encounter) between the indigenous social understandings of non-European students and that Western objectivist conceptual framework. By recognizing the need for both first and second epistemological breaks, the course would attempt to conceptualise post-colonial EU/non-EU contacts dialectically so as to explore the implications of the analyses of Western Social Anthropology for the social self-understandings both of the ‘subjects’ and the ‘objects’ of this research.
These are simply my preliminary thoughts. I am hoping that interested colleagues might respond to this notice and that, over the next year, a team might, in discussion, generate a joint course which might give substance to these ideas. I should be very pleased if anyone at all interested would send me an e-mail, preferably by the end of May, 2005, in the hope that we can establish a group to plan a course structure and to suggest components which might be offered in different institutions.
Derek Robbins. School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London. Docklands campus, 4, University Way, London E16 2RD
e-mail: d.m.robbins@uel.ac.uk
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