Bringing the Global Home: Students Research Local Areas through Postcolonial Perspectives

Abstract

This article describes a class that draws on postcolonial insights to create a global sociological imagination. Postcolonial approaches can make visible how global connections have shaped our local environments even if these relations are not always immediately visible. Specifically, students in this class highlight how global relations, such as the slave...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Comparative Sociology/Historical Sociology

Resource Type(s):

Assignment, Class Activity

Class Level(s):

Any Level

Class Size(s):

Small

Usage Notes

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