Spatial Anthropology

Description

Knowledge of the main sociological and anthropological paradigms for the study of spatial questions; understanding of the frames of strcutural relation between spatial morphology and socio-cultural morphology; knowledge of the main implications of these relations in the study of portuguese society. Understanding of the main anthropological and sociological theories about the relations bewteen society and space. Understading of the main coordinates of these relation in portuguese society. 1. Sciences and social sciences. The place of anthropology and sociology. 1.1. The emergence and consolidation of anthropology and sociology. 1.2. Concepts and methods. 2. Socio-anthropological paradigms in the analysis of space. 2.1. The urban question and the emergence of socio-anthropological questions about space and territory. 2.2. Space in the classical authors of the social sciences. 2.3. The Chicago School. 2.3.1. The ecological perspectives of Park, Burgess and Mackenzie. 2.3.2. The perspective of Louis Wirth: a more culturally oriented synthesis beyond the Chicago School. 2.4. The paradigmatic autonomisation of the spatial problem in the social sciences. 2.4.1. The perspective of H. Lefebvre: the production of space. 2.4.2. P. Bourdieu's perspective on society and his contribution to the analysis of the relationships between physical space, social space and symbolisation. 2.4.3. The perspectives of E. T. Hall, M. Foucault and M. Augé on the relationships between space and symbolisation. 2.4.4. The perspective of J. Rémy and L. Voyé: urbanisation and the articulated conceptualisation of the relationships between space, society and culture. 3. Ruralities, cities, industrialisation and urbanisation processes. Theories and syntheses focused on the impact of socio-anthropological studies on the production and appropriation of public, semi-public and private spaces. 3.1. Ruralities, deepening ruralities and urbanisation of the countryside. 3.2. Industrialisation processes and their conjunction with urbanisation. 3.3. Mobility as a central element in the definition of urbanised cities. Power and inequality in cities. Theoretical and practical classes. Assessment/evaluation: designation Weight (%) Exame 70,00 Trabalho escrito 30,00 Total: 100,00 Both assessment moments are commendatory. A written individual exam (70% of the final mark) and a written essay (30% of the final mark). The essay is an individual work; the themes are given in the beginning of the semester. According to faculty's regulations. SIGARRA mobility teaching-language note: Suitable for English-speaking students. Incoming mobility students choose course units through SIGARRA and a Learning Agreement. U.Porto states that one ECTS credit corresponds to 27 hours of total student work, the standard load is 30 ECTS per semester or 60 ECTS per academic year, students are strongly advised to register for at least 20 ECTS per semester, and enrolment is subject to timetable compatibility, prerequisites, vacancies, and later programme changes.