Sumários
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12 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
I. Frameworks. Culture as a site of ideological struggle. Britishness and Otherness. Four Nations framework vs. global connections.
Readings: Colley, Linda. 1992. “Britishness and Otherness: An Argument.” Journal of British Studies 31: 309-29.
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10 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
Frameworks.
The case of Brexit (continued).
Readings: Corbett, Steve. 2016. “The Social Consequences of Brexit for the UK and Europe: Euroscepticism, Populism, Nationalism, and Societal Division.” International Journal of Social Quality 6(1): 11–31.
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5 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
Frameworks.
Links between nineteenth-century Britain and the present moment: a legacy in permanent construction. The “imagined close relevance” of Victorian society to our own society (McCord and Purdue 2007). The case of Brexit.
Readings: Gilmartin, Mary, Patricia Burke Wood, and Cian O'Callaghan. 2018. Borders, Mobility and Belonging in the Era of Brexit and Trump. Bristol: Policy Press. 1-35.
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3 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
Learning oucomes, evaluation criteria and class methodologies. Oral presentations: how to lead a class discussion.
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29 Janeiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
I. Frameworks. Raymond Williams’s concept of the "structure of feeling" (1961, 1977) as the conceptual anchor to frame processes of political, socioeconomic, and cultural change in Britain from the Victorian era to contemporaneity. Historical periodization processes. Modes of relating to the 19th and early 20th centuries. The perspective of “history from below”: watching an excerpt from the documentary Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs.