IP122 Revolution

Module Overview

On this module, a range of social and cultural revolutions will be explored to gain understanding the complex and changing nature of land ownership, capital accumulation, and social control in the United Kingdom. Through examination of case studies from the late Middle Ages to the present day, this module explores key issues of ecology, politics, and social justice set against a background of land-inspired artistic and creative expression.

Module aims:

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

Understand how the political and social contexts of revolutions and impacted lived experiences and cultural expressions of revolution
Mobilise theoretical frameworks to undertake analysis of products and representations of revolution
Compare dominant revolutionary narratives and scholarship with marginalized ones in relation to scholarly theory and practice
Demonstrate foundational research and professional communication skills

This is a Year 1 Liberal Arts optional core module.

Module Leader: Dr William Rupp

15 CATS

Term 2 | 10 weeks

2 workshop hours per week

This module is not available to students outside of Liberal Arts.

Please note: Module availability and staffing may change year on year depending on availability and other operational factors. The School for Cross-Faculty Studies makes no guarantee that any modules will be offered in a particular year, or that they will necessarily be taught by the staff listed on these pages

Indicative topics:

Please note that this is purely indicative, and that actual module content may differ.

Revolutions and Ways of Seeing
Feeding Bellies to Capture Minds? Revolutions in Agriculture and the Subtlety of Power and Control
Ghosts in the Machine: Industry, Revolution, and the Shaping of Modernity
Selling England by the Pound: Revolutions in Land Ownership and Development
Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Land and Revolution

Assessments:

There are three assessments on this module:

Assessment	Weighting	Description
Research Project	50%	argumentative written work related to one of the module's case studies
Group Presentation	35%	research-based presentation
Take-home Test	15%	a short-answer test responding to module content

Illustrative reading list:

Arendt, Hannah. 2006. On Revolution. London: Penguin.
Arundel, Rowan, and Richard Ronald. 2020. "The False Promise of Homeownership: Homeowner Societies in an Era of Declining Access and Rising Inequality." Urban Studies 58, 6: 1120-1140.
Bermingham, Ann. 1987. Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860. London: Thames and Hudson.
Blomley, Nicholas. 2007. "Making Private Property: Enclosure, Common Right and the Work of Hedges." Rural History 18, 1: 1-21.
Fowler, Corinne. 2020. Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural Britain's Colonial Connections. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Kekes, John. 2009. "Conservative Theories." In Handbook of Political Theory. Edited by Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas. Los Angeles, CA, London, and New Delhi: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Kümin, Beat A., ed. 2023. The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History. 4th Edition. London and New York: Routledge.

Landauer, Gustav. 2010. Revoltion and Other Writings: A Political Reader. Edited and Translated by Gabriel Kuhn. Oakland, CA: Polity Press.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. 2012. The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition. London: Verso.
Overton, Mark. 1996. Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy, 1500-1859. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rose, Gillian. 2016. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. 4th Edition. Los Angeles, CA, London, and New Delhi: SAGE.
Williams, Raymond. 2013. The Country and The City. London: Vintage Classics.