https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/SOCL6050?type=COREThe aim of this course is to help students identify their 'field' and the dynamics that make them up as 'places'. By place-making we mean the diverse scalar relations and structures that give meaning to a space as they are conceived, reflected on or resisted by actors, and we mean the ethnographer's gaze that constitutes an anthropological field from a complex social formation. In the course, we will look at anthropological texts on the relation of the field to local and global scales, and to history and temporality. We will look at how dominant and subaltern knowledges interweave or clash in the making of places. Put differently, the course will help students 1) theorise 'external' forces - money, ideologies, people - and the ways in which they impact in local spaces, 2) think about spatial practices and the power structures that are part of them that give meaning and order to space and how these relate with 'external' forces, 3) locate their research historically and understand the privilege accorded to linear and territorial notions of time which has tended to normalize specific, often 'European', ways of doing social research, and 4) to think about the possibilities and limitations of comparative work and to consider how we may generalize from anthropological fieldwork.