Critics of Empire: Radical and Revolutionary Political Thinkers of the Global South | PAIR3059

Module overview

For thinkers of the Global South, the experience of empire, of being subject to imperial rule in a variety of forms, serves as a key site for the development of political theory. This module addresses a range of the responses to empire that emerged within and from struggles against imperialism and does so across a number of different imperial contexts. In reflecting on the forms of imperialism and in critiques of empire, it focuses both on understanding and evaluating individual political theories and on considering them as a collective response to the experience of empire.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Critically review academic research and construct an essay showing your own research.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

A range of responses to imperialism across different traditions and contexts and the ability to analyse and evaluate these responses.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Engage in detailed critical reviewing of academic articles, chapter or books in political theory.

Syllabus

This module will address a range of important non-Western thinkers who were (or are) engaged in the critique of imperialism from Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and 'settler-colonial states' such as Canada. This may include Franz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Aime Césaire, B.S. Ambedkar, M.K. Gandhi, Sayyid Qutb, Zaynab al Ghazali, Huda Sha’rawi, CLR James, Edward Said, Taiake Alfred, Subcommondante Marcos.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

2 hours of lectures per week. All will be recorded and posted on Blackboard. Lectures will be delivered either face to face or online only depending upon University and Public Health England Guidance at the time. Total of 24 hours of lectures (2 hours per week X 12 weeks) per module.

Weekly student participation in online discussion boards. 1 hour per week delivered asynchronously. (1 hour X 12 weeks)

Study time
Type	Hours
Teaching	36
Independent Study	114
Total study time	150

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Research proposal	25%
Discussion board activity	25%
Research project	50%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Essay	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Essay	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External