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Semester module |
NQF level: 7 |
Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English |
Module presented online |
| Purpose: For an individual in a wheelchair, the symbolic meaning of a flight of stairs is simple and direct. The area beyond is off-limits... Disability in a disabling society... exposes the building blocks of society. What is considered a disability... reveals who is and is not incorporated as a viable member... Because of the permanent liminality of disability, the arbitrariness and hostility of the disabling society can be revealed and shattered"" (Willett & Deegan 2018). The purpose of this third year online anthropology module is to build on the foundation of the undergraduate programme laid in the first and second year modules. In this module students will engage with ideas on disability and 'contemporary society' through a critical lens. By using disability, students will learn how to deconstruct the building blocks of what makes up contemporary society. They will do this by way of making use of anthropological works on understanding ritual behaviour, ala Victor Turner's work on liminality, and through the assessments they will perform ethnographic and/or autoethnographic exercises which will give them first-hand research experience to understand disability' in practice.. |