SOCIOLOGY OF RACISM AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- SOCIOLOGIA DEL RAZZISMO E DELLE RELAZIONI INTERCULTURALI
- Course code
- FM0624 (AF:525977 AR:292804)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- SPS/08
- Period
- 2nd Term
- Course year
- 2
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
- is in possession of the theoretical framework and conceptual references for the study of racism and interculturalism, as elaborated by the most recent studies;
- possesses a general framework of the phenomenon of racism, its generative causes and the forms it has taken over time and space;
- knows the specific terminology, the main research themes and problems of the field of study related to racism and interculturalism;
- possesses an in-depth knowledge of racism, anti-racist practices and intercultural relations and related social, political and cultural processes;
-has knowledge of the ways in which ethno-racial discrimination is reproduced.
- will be introduced to post- and de-colonial perspectives and critical race studies, around the themes of racism, migration, modernity
-knows methods for social research on the topics of racism with a focus on qualitative, creative and visual methods.
Pre-requirements
Contents
- Elements and dimensions of racial doctrine: racism as ideology; the mystifications of racial doctrine.
- Post- and de-colonial perspectives, and critical race studies, around the themes of racism, migration, modernity.
- The social construction of race and the processes of racialisation of the other.
- Forms of racism yesterday and today: Islamophobia, Romaphobia and anti-Gypsyism, Sinophobia, Afrophobia, environmental racism, welfare racism, anti-meridionalism. Feminist and intersectional perspectives.
-Everyday anti-racism and cognitive practices
- Racism and anti-racism in educational contexts
- Media, visuality and counter visuality: reproduction and contestation of racial hierarchies.
- Cultural pluralism, multiculturalism, interculturality; interculturality and artistic expressions: literature, poetry, music, theatre.
- Intercultural social practices; cases, good practices, projects for interculturality and global citizenship.
- Doing (visual) research on racisms: decolonising the imaginary, learning to see racisms.
Referral texts
Davis, A. (2018), Donne Razza e Classe, Alegre
Frisina A. (2020), Razzismi contemporanei. Le prospettive della sociologia, Carocci, Roma
Hawthorn, C., (2023), Razza e cittadinanza, Astarte
Guillamin C., L' ideologia razzista, Il Melangolo (ed. or. 1973).
Integrazione obbligatoria per non frequentanti :
Akotirene, C. (2022), Intersezionalità, Capovolte
oppure
Perocco F. (2022), The System of Racial Discrimination in the Italian Welfare State in Perocco, F. (ed) Racism in and for the Welfare State, Palgrave
1 libro sull’intercultura (eventuali personalizzazioni da concordare con la docente, sarà fornita una lista di letture facoltative o alternative)
Agostinetto, L. (2002), L’intercultura in testa. Sguardo e rigore per l'agire educativo quotidiano, Franco Angeli
Burgio, G. (2022), Pedagogia postcoloniale. Prospettive radicali per l’intercultura, Milano, Franco Angeli
Cabiati E., Intercultura e social work, Erickson
Integrazione obbligatoria per non frequentanti :
Burgio, G., Vaccaro, L. P. (2023), Oltre l’intercultura. Prospettive postcoloniali, decoloniali e trasformative, Quaderni di Intercultura Anno XV/2023 https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/qdi/article/view/4303/pdf
Oppure
Frisina A., Farina, F. G., Surian A. (a cura di) (2021), Antirazzismo e scuole. Vol.1 , Padova: Padova University Press (digital edition), open access https://www.padovauniversitypress.it/it/publications/9788869382710 (capitoli da concordare)
oppure
Frisina A., Farina F. G., Surian A. (a cura di) (2023), Antirazzismo e scuole. Vol. 2 , Padova: Padova University Press (digital edition), open access https://www.padovauniversitypress.it/it/publications/9788869383823 (capitoli da concordare)
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Further information
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Type of exam
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development