OVERVIEW

Il seminario si propone di fornire gli strumenti per esplorare e discutere criticamente modi diversi di interpretare, narrare e comunicare le migrazioni.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The seminar aims to provide the tools to explore and critically discuss different ways of interpreting, narrating, and communicating migration processes.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The seminar aims to develop a critical gaze toward mainstream language and dominant representations, as well as to offer insights into alternative ways of narrating migrations through dialogical and participatory fieldwork approaches and counter-information projects.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, in-class discussions and workshops, individual and group presentations.

Students in a certificated condition of handicap or learning disorder are warmly encouraged to contact the lecturer, at the beginning of the course, in order to agree teaching and exam methods that, still respecting the course aims, take into account the individual learning needs and offer adequate compensatory instruments.

To request compensatory tools or dispensatory measures, students with disabilities or SLD must fill in the dedicated Webform available athttps://unige.it/disabilita-dsa, at least 7 working days before the exam.

Students with SEN may instead send their request by e-mail to the lecturer, copying the Department Representative, Prof. Aristide Canepa (aristide.canepa@unige.it) and the Inclusion Office (inclusione.studenti@info.unige.it). Requests from students will be assessed by the lecturer and may be approved or rejected.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The seminar is structured around six three-hour sessions organised around the following themes:

1) Media and race

2) Media, migrations and security

3) Discourses of integration and rethorics of welcoming

4) Media, the spectacle of the border and migration policies

5) Participatory film and fifth cinema

6) The words and metaphors of the journey: examples from the field

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Pogliano (2022) Media, politica e migrazioni in Europa. Una prospettiva sociologica. Carocci: Roma.

Additional readings will be provided between sessions.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FILIPPO TORRE (President)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy