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LECTURE 4: FILM ‐ ‘VILLAGE MAN, CITY MAN’
This film deals with the way in which one man, Shripal, views his life as a city man whose
kinship ties and duties still bind him to his natal village. Shripal now works in a New Delhi cloth
factory, 400 miles west of his village in central Uttar Pradesh, India, sending home a third of his
wages to pay a family debt. For several weeks of each year he leaves the walled factory in the
city and returns to the village world where his wife, children, parents and other relatives live.
The particular problems of village life seem in sharp contrast to Shripal's city environment
where he experiences the problems of a factory worker.
LECTURE 5: DIASPORAS AND MINORITIES
This lecture deals with the political significance of the concept of minority in policy making. Can
the concept of diaspora also be liberally applied to minority groups? We will question how
global frameworks of representation shape the political claims of minority populations.
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• Pipyrou, S. (2012) ‘Commensurable Language and Incommensurable Claims among the
Greek Linguistic Minority of South Italy’, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1,
pp: 70‐91.
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LECTURE 6: GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS
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