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FILOSOFIE, RELIGIONI E STORIA DELL'INDIA E DELL'ASIA CENTRALE
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Dati Generali
Periodo di attività
Syllabus
Obiettivi Formativi
The course aims to provide solid knowledge and critical understanding of the social, political, economic and cultural processes of modern and contemporary Central Asia. After a series of introductory lectures held by the teacher, the course will deal with the reading of a selection of chapters from three recently published textbooks on Central Asian studies. Students will be encouraged to study consciously, actively and autonomously. Students will give class presentations on assignments. In the final part of the course, students will present reviews of books or articles that will be assigned by the teacher and discussed in class. Teaching structure of 9 and 6 CFU The course includes a 9 CFU teaching structure for students enrolled in the MRIR Course of Study – Relations and Institutions of Asia and Africa, Asia Curriculum, and in the MAAR Course of Study – Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. There is also a 6 CFU teaching structure for students enrolled in the MRIR Study Course – Relations and Institutions of Asia and Africa, Middle East and North Africa Curriculum. The educational objectives, prerequisites, methods of verification of learning and teaching methods remain unchanged in the two teaching articulations. Students who take the 9 CFU exam are required to study supplementary readings, listed in the course reference texts. ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING The students will have to demonstrate that they know how to orient themselves in the debates related to the topics covered during the course. Attending students will be required to prepare a short power-point presentation on an agreed topic and the preparation of a written paper to be presented during the evaluation. Making judgements: Students will learn to choose and deepen a topic related to the course program and to develop it independently in a written paper. Communication skills: Students will learn to select and summarize relevant information from critical texts and to communicate and discuss it effectively in class. Learning skills: Students will hone their ability to be autonomous in studying, summarizing and presenting academic texts orally, and in academic writing.
Prerequisiti
Metodi didattici
Verifica Apprendimento
Evaluation criteria for the exam with paper: quality of the paper, oral presentation, ability to connect the topics addressed in the paper with the general ones of the course
Evaluation criteria for the exam without paper: quality of the oral presentation, knowledge and ability to orient oneself in the exam program, ability to connect specific topics and themes with the general themes of the course.
Non-attending students are requested to contact the teacher in good time in order to define the topics of the oral exam focused on the reference texts of the course
Testi
Required readings for the 6 and 9 CFU exam program
David W. Montgomery, ed., Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
Jeroen Van den Bosch, Adrien Fauve, Bruno De Cordier, eds., The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History, Politics, and Societies, Stuttgart, ibidem Verlag, 2021.
Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat, eds., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia, London, Routledge, 2022.
Supplementary teaching materials and handouts will be made available by the teacher during the course.
Optional supplementary readings, but compulsory for the 9 CFU program
Adeeb Khalid, Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, capp. 21-25.
Marco Buttino, Samarkand. Stories in a city from 1945 to today, Rome, Viella, 2015.
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix and Madeleine Reeves, eds., The Central Asian World, London, Routledge, 2023, Introduction and Part I, pp. 1-113.
Contenuti
1. Islamization of Central Asia
2. Interactions between Pastoral Nomadic and Sedentary Societies
3. Orientalism, Post-colonial and De-colonial frames in Central Asian Studies
4. The religious landscape
5. Ethnic and language policies
6. Economy and environment
7. Pre-colonial Central Asia
8. Colonial Society
9. Soviet Central Asia
10. Post-Soviet Central Asia
11. Anthropological studies in and of Central Asia: perspectives, methods and problems
12 International Relations of Central Asian Countries
Lingua Insegnamento
English
Altre informazioni
The course is particularly suitable in combination with one or more of the courses related to the History, Anthropology, Culture of Islamic and/or ex-socialist countries. The course is preparatory to mobility to affiliated universities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.