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By the end of the course it is expected that students will be able to:
- comprehend and critically reflect on the complex interaction between ideology, urban space and city culture;
- demonstrate the ways in which gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality are constitutive of, and are constituted by, urban form and urban life and their representation through a range of concrete examples in different media;
- formulate a theoretically informed and methodologically sound research project that critically engages with the interaction between ideology and city culture.
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The city and its cultures are increasingly important topics in the field of Cultural Studies. This course investigates cultural imaginaries of cities, ways of sensing the urban environment and political claims to inhabit city space. From New York to Berlin and from Eindhoven to Beirut, the course looks at how city culture, the practices of city life and urban forms, have given form and substance to various identities and experiences over time and across Europe and the rest of the globe. In particular, it inquires into how urban space, life and imaginaries interact with subjectivity and its inflections along the lines of social class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and their intersections. Our approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in and across the fields of cultural studies, cultural geography, gender studies, urban studies and philosophy.
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You need to have successfully completed the following courses before registering for City Culture:
- Image, Text and Music analysis / Analyse van muziek, tekst en beeld,
- Cultural Theory.
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