Cultural, Popular Cultural and Performative

Learn about how cultural, popular cultural and performative events, objects and practices can be sites of protest, subversion, and resistance, or regulation, coercion and propaganda.

Art and culture is not just an aesthetic endeavour, but these forms of expression have been used across history and countries as tools to both uphold and challenge power. Dance, literature, film and artistic works can serve to parody power and public figures, ridicule out-dated practices, highlight the suffering of others, or propose new ways of living or doing politics. Modules in this sub-theme also allow you to trace historical events through cultural commentary, and how cultures have evolved over time to reflect changing social, economic and political contexts. Studying culture of art and performance can help to locate different viewpoints, discord and unrest, as well as to open up our thinking to unfamiliar concepts and ideas. 

Cultural, Popular Cultural and Performative modules

23 modules available

This information is for the 2024/25 academic year. 

IF YOU ARE AN INCOMING YEAR ONE STUDENT, YOU SHOULD ONLY CHOOSE LEVEL 1 MODULES.