SOSANT2210 ¨C Multiculturalism and the politics of identity

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Course content

This course provides students with a basic introduction to anthropological perspectives on multiculturalism and identity politics. We will discuss differing conceptions of multicultural processes and society as well as different forms of identity politics.

We will focus on what processes make identity political and how relations between more or less political identities are negotiated. The course looks at central anthropological questions within these areas of research.

Relevant examples are:

• minority issues and the historical or da