Universiteit Leiden (UL) • International Studies

Final assignment for the course, culture in the Middle East, with a photograph as my cultural object and its implication in the Turkish Cypriot postmemory. It received a 9.5, and it can be used as an example for your assignment.

GPE second half notes, lectures 7-12

Lectures notes for the first half of Global Political Economy .

Key terms defined, summary of book chapters based on the information of the lecture

Concise and easy to understand lecture notes with additional notes from the required videos

Notes of all the persons who were mentioned in the course, and a description of what their ideas were.

Concepts and definitions of the Cultural Studies. Based on the lecture slides.

Concepts and persons described. , , Ideology, Hegemony, Globalization, Language, Parole, Semiotics, Structuralism, Signifier, Signified, Cultural codes, Denotation, Connotation, Poststructuralism, Discourse, Archeology, Genealogy, Television, News, The manipulative model, The pluralist model, The hegemonic model, The dominant-hegemonic encoding/decoding, Negotiated code, An oppositional code, Active audience paradigm, Youth, Subculture, Homologies, Bricolage, Subjectivity, Identity, Essentialism...

These notes are based on the lecturer's slides, as well as things said in class and some of the readings. It provides comprehensive yet simple explanations of the various political parties, institutions, disasters, leaders etc. It also has tables of comparison which make studying such a content-heavy course easier. Each of the lecturers is colour-coded to help recall in the exam. Diagrams are included as well as tips mentioned my Dr. Casper Wits in class.

!!!! There could be typos!!!!!! She does change up the second part of the lectures so if you are not following in 2023/2024, then the first 6 are more useful. For the second part the readings are important, I don’t have those though.