The Modern Mediterranean: From Colonial Sea to Environmental Crisis?
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Overview
The scale of contemporary population displacement has made the Mediterranean into a contentious region that reveals a complex set of historical dynamics. Questioning the ‘crisis’ of migration and refuge has led scholars to ponder whether we are witnessing a truly ‘European crisis’. How can we understand the geopolitical and social relevance of the Mediterranean within European historical trajectories connecting east and west, and north and south?
Our Modern Mediterranean: From Colonial Sea to Environmental Crisis? short course gives you the opportunity to examine this and related questions through the field of modern Mediterranean studies. We will seek to understand - through a combination of intellectual and socio-political histories - how historians and anthropologists have conceptualised the sea and its constitutive processes.
We plan to cover the following content:
- Braudel’s Sea
- Anthropology’s Mediterranean
- Micro-regions and Global Connectivity
- Legal Regimes in Late Nineteenth-century Mediterranean
- Colonial Seas and the Imperial Mediterranean
- Nationalist Mediterraneans
- Decolonising the Sea
- Mediterranean Post-wars and the Emergence of the Cold War
- A New Mediterranean Region?
- Migration and Refuge: The Doorsteps of Europe
Assessment is via a 5000-word essay (100%).
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Most of our short courses have no formal entry requirements and are open to all students.
This short course has no prerequisites.
As part of the enrolment process, you may be required to submit a copy of a suitable form of ID.
International students who wish to come to the UK to study a short course can apply for a Visitor visa. Please note that it is not possible to obtain a Student visa to study a short course.
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How to apply
How to apply
You register directly onto the classes you would like to take. Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis - so apply early. If you wish to take more than one short course, you can select each one separately and then register onto them together via our online application portal. There is usually no formal selection process, although some modules may have prerequisites and/or other requirements, which will be specified where relevant.