Postcolonial Europe

FaculteitFaculty of Humanities

NiveauBachelor

Studiejaar2026-2027

Beschrijving

Course goals

- Identifying Europe’s internal forms of colonial/postcolonial relations and recognizing current colonial and imperialist norms in discourse, media and social relations.
- Recognizing and employing different postcolonial analytical tools in social, cultural and political domains.
- Develop skills in order to carry out research using textual, media and discourse analysis.

Content

This course engages with postcolonial and decolonial theories in the discussion of topics such as borders, memory, identity, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, racism, xenophobia and the production, representation and perpetuation of otherness. The course thereby critically deconstructs and analyses the notions of Europe and European identity. The course takes an intersectional perspective by relying on insights coming from adjacent critical fields of studies such as gender studies, media studies, literary studies, religious studies, and migration studies, among others. This engagement is accomplished through the presence of various invited guest speakers who will approach the topics from their disciplinary perspectives and research trajectories.

This course is part of the the minor Postcolonial Studies. For more information about this minor see: Postcolonial studies.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major (hoofdrichting Postcolonial and Gender Studies) are required to complete one of the following compulsory preparation courses: Introduction to Gender Studies (block 3), Gender, intersectionaliteit en cultuurkritiek (blok 1) or Gender, Intersectionality and Cultural Critique (blok 1). See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/ for more information.

Additional information

Priority rules
This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you
- are a student in the BA Liberal Arts and Sciences or Taal- en Cultuurstudies and this course is part of your specialisation (kernpakket)
- are enrolled in the Postcolonial Studies minor
- are an exchange student and meet the course’s entry requirements
In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list.

Schedule
Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September.

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