Global Politics: Art and Activism (Taught)

This MA explores twenty-first-century global politics through the intersection of critical theory, activism and artistic practice. You’ll engage with transformative ideas and real-world challenges, developing creative and analytical approaches to understanding power, resistance and change in a rapidly shifting world.

• This programme will help you develop critical skills beyond Eurocentric views of international politics. You'll learn to engage with different perspectives, questioning the boundaries between politics, culture, ecology, religion and the economy.

• Your learning will explore three central pillars, including: the power and politics in global and local relations, social movements and activist practices as a decisive challenge to mainstream politics, and the encounter between art and politics. Read more about what you’ll study.

• Your teaching will be grounded in contemporary issues, including the worldwide rise in inequality, shifting geopolitics, democratic change and ecological crises.

• You'll learn about the impact of activism and activists on global politics. You will explore how contemporary practices are emerging in ways that interrupt or reinvent the languages of both politics and art. The programme will encourage you to think creatively about new forms of political mobilisation and organisation and transformative ideas like "decolonisation".

• You’ll gain the tools to analyse and actively contribute to new forms of political and social change, including thinking critically and creatively about new forms of political mobilisation, organisation and ideas.

• You'll be able to work in an interdisciplinary fashion, exploring cutting-edge perspectives in the social sciences while adding critical insights from art, the humanities and cultural studies to your toolbox.

• During the programme, you'll get the chance to innovate and develop your own ideas, research and professional agendas with the support of a team of expert scholars working in diverse fields and regions of study, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as Europe and the USA.

• Through innovative teaching and partnerships, this programme aligns academia, activism, politics, and NGOs. Your studies will enable you to actively engage in the fields of scholarship, activism and global politics.