Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3175: Nationalisms in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level 6
Credits 15 ECTS Value 7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module examines theories of nationalism (particularly modernism, perennialism and ethno-symbolist approaches to nationalism), and will enable students to independently interpret and explain the emergence of nationalism, nations, and national identity across cases in the Middle East and North Africa. While providing some theoretical orientation and critique of explanations that are either entirely reliant on the idea of the state, or approaches that emphasise pre-state identities as constituting bases for nationalism, the course will ultimately help students to understand the complex interplay of identities, social structures and politics in their ultimate expression as nations and nationalisms.

Module created

01/10/2005

Last revised

30/11/2013