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Course Description:
This course deals with the way culture has moved to the center-stage of both national and
international politics in recent decades. The scope of this course ranges from the way
modernity-tradition dichotomy was employed to explain the Third World to its critique by
Benedict Anderson, Anthony Smith and others. The idea is to look at the battle of cultures in
various countries as well as at the global level. The course includes various related fields of
enquiry such as culture and nationalism, ethnicity and education. It includes a study of
Pakistan focusing on historical, territorial, religious, ethnic and linguistic aspects of cultural
politics in the country. The course includes research assignments to prepare students for
serious academic work. Students will be required to make an oral presentation based on their
written work.
Grading:
Class attendance: 10%
Midterm Examination: 20%
Research Assignment: 35%
Final Examination: 35%
Course Objectives
• To expose the students to multidimensional relationship between culture and politics, both
theoretically and empirically;
• To make students understand the that culture is politics by other means, inasmuch as
various contenders for power use cultural symbols to mobilize people on the way to
construction of identity, perpetrate violence and control the political landscape;
• To bring into focus competing interests operating through cultural symbols such as
language, ethnicity and religion.
Session 1: Introduction