ABOUT THE COURSE:The course would explore the history of modernisation, putting forward modernity as a creative idea that broke away from dogmatism, orthodox practices and unreflective conservatism based on massive misinterpretation and manipulation of religion. Secondly, it would explore modernisation as a historical phenomenon, focusing on those events such as colonization, industrial revolution, and the cataclysmic world wars that led to the shaping of the idea of modernity. Thirdly, the course would put modernisation as a continuous process, as an unfinished project, viewing recent ideas such as posthumanism and planetarity as products of modernisation. Finally, this course will put forward modernisation as a communicative practice, a way of networking different ideas into meaningful sites of production of new meanings and sensibilities for the coming community.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate, Postgraduate students and PhD scholarsPREREQUISITES: Graduation
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1:Ideas of Modernisation and CreativityWeek 2:Historical Overview of ModernisationWeek 3:Current Developments in ModernisationWeek 4:Modernisation as a Communicative PracticeWeek 5:Speaking into the Air - Part IWeek 6:Speaking into the Air - Part IIWeek 7:Media, Market and Creative CommunicationWeek 8:The Dominion of Communication: One Planet, Many Worlds
Taught by
Prof. Saswat Samay Das, Prof. Ananya Roy Pratihar
