Urban and Transnational Anthropology

The course is an upgrade of the basic course on Urban anthropology in the first level (BA), extended with an overview of research, debates, and findings in the fields of anthropology of globalization, transnationalism and mobilities. The interconnections and interdependences of contemporary global, transnational, and urban processes and their impact on local social phenomena are discussed in the following chapters:

1. Introductory chapter: Overview of concepts and terminology
2. Globalisation (classical and modern theories, examples and discussions)
3. Transnationality (basic theories, authors, research and methodological approaches)
4. Migration and mobility (concepts, policies
5. Diaspora and return mobilities
6. 'Ethnic' cities, multiculturalism, social inequality
7. Modern urbanism in a global perspective (global and world cities, gentrification)
8. Globalisation, economy and the environment (energy, mobility, consumerism).

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2. Cağlar, Ayşe in Nina Glick Schiller. 2018. Migrants and City-Making. Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. Durham in London: Duke University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 68950626]
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