
School: | Social Sciences | ||
Academic Unit: | Social Anthropology and History | ||
Level of studies: | Undergraduate | ||
Course code: | W/S 075 | Semester: | 5st |
Course Title: | Urban Space and technologies of the body | ||
Independent teaching activities | Weekly teaching hours | Credits | |
Lectures | 3 | 6 | |
Course type: | Seminar. special background, skills development. | ||
Prerequisite courses: | None | ||
Language of instruction and examinations: | Greek | ||
Is the course offered to erasmus students: | Yes | ||
Course website (Url): | https://en.sah.aegean.gr/course/ws-075/ |
(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning outcomes:
The seminar has as aim to familiarize students with the main approaches of the urban space the body and especially the interrelation of space, body and power. Also, the students will be trained to do fieldwork in these topics.
General Competences:
(3) SYLLABUS
The seminar has as main subject the two-way dialectical constitutive relation between urban space and sexual body. The main approaches to space, gender and sexuality will be presented. Emphasis will be given to the technologies of the body; by “technologies” we mean the production of the body by the relations of power i. e. the biopolitics and the contemporary technobiopower. Finally, the way in which the changes in technology and especially the computers and the mobile phones i.e. the virtual space, have an affect on our perception of the body, will be examined.
(4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS – EVALUATION
Delivery: | Face-to face | ||
Use of information and communications technology : | Use of multimedia in teaching, course support through e-class, electronic communication with students | ||
Teaching methods: | Activity | Semester workload | |
Seminars | 30 | ||
Text presentations in class | 40 | ||
Discussion in class | 30 | ||
Autonomous study | 30 | ||
Final essay | 25 | ||
Course total: | 155 | ||
Student performance evaluation: | Greek. Written work, public presentation. |
(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suggested bibliography:
Γιαννακόπουλος Κ.- Γιαννιτσιώτης Γ. (επιμέλεια) 2010 Αμφισβητούμενοι χώροι στην πόλη. Χωρικές προσεγγίσεις του πολιτισμού. Αθήνα: Αλεξάνδρεια.
Φουκώ Μ. 1976 Επιτήρηση και τιμωρία. Η γέννηση της φυλακής. Αθήνα: Ράππας.
Φουκώ M., 1978 Ιστορία της σεξουαλικότητας. τόμος 1: Η δίψα της γνώσης. Αθήνα: Ράππας.
Haraway D. 2014 Ανθρωποειδή, γυναίκες και κυβόργια. Αθήνα: Αλεξάνδρεια.