Content (Syllabus outline):

First part of the course – 'Postcolonial theories'- is focused on selected topics from the field of postcolonialt theory, namely, the questions of identity, globalisation and hibridity.
Second part of the course – 'Social politics' explains and aplies post-colonial theories in its concrete frame – in the field of the rest of continents: Asia, Africa, Latin America and Pacific. The content will be related with so called 'Theories of the South' and presented with its concrete aplications in social politics for aboriginal (or native ) peoples.

First part 'Postcolonial theories' includes following contents:

• identity: ethnic, cultural, national identities and their meaning in the postcolonial context;  problematisation of essentialism, nacionalisms and culturalisms
• globalisation: different levels of globalisation and different views on this process (in economy, history, sociology, politology, humanities …); theory of globalisation from the viewpoint of longueduree
• hibridity: phenomena of creolite, sincretism and hibridity in the postcolonial context and form ot the viepoint of globalisation processes

Second part 'Social politics' includes following contents:

• social hibridity – historical review through the continents: mestization, hibridization, transcultural processes, religion and cultural syncretism
• formation of cultural, ethnic and national identities in Africa, Asia and Latin America (historical review – 19 / 20 th Century)
• international law and social politics for aborigional nations: human rights; UN – OIT conventions and its influation on the national constitutions (OIT Conventions 1948, 1953, 1989, 2014) and concrete analyse of national constitutions
• socio-religious movements of aboriginal people in Latin America, Africa and Asia (19., 20 Ctr.)
• etno –linguistical movements