塞维利亚:文化，身份 & 城市公民 学习+宝博体育 in 塞维利亚 Program 夏季2024年6月/ 7月8周

What role does 塞维利亚 have as one of the most important cities in the secular state of 西班牙? Why and how has it played a central part during history while remaining a key anchor of national pride? This city reflects the cultural contradictions that define what means to be a Spaniard. 例如, 塞维利亚's main national celebrations, 圣周, run contrary to the fact that 西班牙 is a secular country. Additionally it embraces the cultural icons of being Spanish: Catholicism, flamenco and bullfighting. 通过这些不一致, Sevillians have cultivated a counter-culture, based upon the re-interpretation of their identity and culture as a manner of resistance. Here marginalized groups gain their space; one where traditional folklore meets with active social movements, where three world religions met and still peacefully co-exist. 塞维利亚 exemplifies an ideal environment to explore alternative cultures, 与性别有关的身份(例如. the LGBT community) and new political affiliations. Finally 塞维利亚's transformation, through newly constructed ideas of citizenship, have generated organic solutions to the 经济 crisis, which have yielded novel local ways to understand and articulate notions of community.

This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach borrowing instructional tools and methods from subject areas ranging from Spanish studies to gender studies. The course develops by providing a historical and analytical review on the changes which impact cultural and gender identity in Sevillian / Spanish society over the last four decades, roughly from the last years of the Franco regime to now. 一方面，一方面, we will explore how these changes can be understood by the political developments witnessed in the country, from a conservative dictatorship to a stable democracy. 另一方面, we will also investigate how citizenship and gender spaces are negotiated within the local society by exploring different areas such as the political realm, 工作, 电影, 家庭与宗教.

Our analytical focal point is placed upon the city, 郊区, and the neighborhoods of 塞维利亚 where the presence of diverse local initiatives offer opportunities for exploration on how effectively they have managed to create impact and transformation on the Spanish political, 经济, societal and cultural mainstream. Through academic readings and course excursions, you will explore Andalusia's capital city and the multicultural populations to which it has been home in both a historical and a contemporary context. Personal observations of and encounters with people from a variety of populations are all part of the field工作 in this course.

You will learn how a culture's official policy about belonging and foreignness relates to gender, 性, and ethnicity by drawing from similar rhetorical strategies. The course will point to ways to cross lines of difference to re-imagine new forms of belonging and citizenship for a 21st century 塞维利亚.