Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5507BEASOC-SEP-PAR
Aims
To identify popular culture as a site of political performance and understanding.
To recognise and operationalise visual methodologies in the study of international relations and politics.
To analyse the political work that popular culture does.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Generate an analysis of world politics through a specific medium of popular culture
2.
Demonstrate interdisciplinary analytic skills
3.
Critically reflect upon various kinds of popular cultural artefacts and the political work they perform
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Topics discussed could include:
• The aesthetic turn in international relations and politics
• Visual methodologies: seeing international relations and politics
• Political art: murals and graffiti
• Reading political dystopia
• J’Accuse!: resistance and film
• National identity and war films
• Get Out: examining racial politics in horror film
• Reckonings and commemorations: genocide and terrorism in political memory
Additional Information:This module explores politics and popular culture as a sub-field that articulates the ways in which politics is understood through popular culture. It demonstrates how theory as a means of making sense of the world impacts upon the everyday. It provides students will an opportunity to take ownership over their learning process through student-led seminars, guided by preceding interactive lectures.