To have the right to the world is to have the right to write, read and construct the world; the right to make a different world.
This project-based module investigates a range of literatures and arts that focus on the right to the world as related to displacement, movements and actions. Drawing on Lefebvre's 'right to the city’ and ‘right to difference’, it interrogates who has the right to the world and explores the ways authors and artists have struggled to claim the right to construct the world they inhabit. In doing so, the module reflects on the world we live in and highlights the relationship between rights and internal/external displacement, social movements and political action that relate to local, national and global practices of creative activism. In order to equip students with an understanding of the right to the world and creative activism across contemporary and past struggles, the module introduces works in diverse forms (e.g. fiction/non-fiction, written, performative/audio-visuals, archival) that transitions between key moments, movements, mobilities. The module will culminate with the students creating a self-devised creative or critical project that writes to the world and raises public awareness.
Lectures: 8 hours
Workshops: 8 hours
Summer
Written. Project. Independent project, may be multimedia (2,500) words. Worth 80%.
Practical Presentation. Presentation plus slides (10 minutes). Worth 20%.
Reassessment method
Single instrument 100% written assessment (2000 words)
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On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
1. Identify categories of, and relationships between, creative work, social movements, and political action
2. Analyse a range of creative and critical materials that actively read, write, and construct space and place
3. Create and communicate awareness, arguments, and analysis in a variety of forms, to specialist and non-specialist audiences alike
4. Review, interpret and respond to feedback from teachers, peers, and wider stakeholders, as appropriate
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