Culture, Community, Identity

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Dr Yasmeen Narayan
• Assessment: a 4000-word essay (100%) and an unassessed five-minute presentation

This interdisciplinary module examines postcolonial cultures, communities and identities framed by broader debates on the persistent criminalisation of historically marginalised and minoritised communities and contemporary histories of colonial occupation and warfare. We discuss the ethics and politics of work on racism, postcoloniality and decoloniality; orientalism, primitivism and colonial nationalisms; retheorising culture, community, hybridity and creolisation and postcolonial belonging, urban cultures and diaspora. We then explore contemporary global multiculture, ‘race’ and beauty before turning to debates on sexual violence, the imperial histories of 'western feminisms', ‘carceral feminisms,’ 'homonationalisms' and the ‘War on Terror' and then postcolonial racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements. We examine debates on histories of criminalisation, policing and community resistance in Britain, 'whiteness' and contemporary legacies of empire.