Socioeconomic Structures

Code:

MHP006

Acronym:

ESE

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in History and Heritage

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MHP	19	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

inglês ou francês

Objectives

Considering that the Master’s Degree Course in History and Heritage has three main focuses, i.e., the building of memories, historical archives, and heritage mediation, the overall objective of this module is to help students identify the contexts which lead to the recognition of heritage. This will be obtained through: 1. developing a solid scientific knowledge, enabling students to identify and study various types of heritage, especially natural, rural, maritime, industrial, built, and iconographic heritage; 2. acquiring the theoretical and methodological skills enabling students to give a sound, rigorous and original contribution to the national scientific production in this field; 3. understanding the contexts of document production in time and space, identifying and validating information sources, developing specific skills for the critical use of documentation to recreate organic structures, societies, economies, and institutions. 4. assessing “memory policies”, objects and products emerging from the construction of human societies, as well as the reflection on and comprehension of memorialist creations in time and space (the crafts, labour and industry; the coast; religion, rural and urban worlds, etc.)

Learning outcomes and competences

The intention is that students gain a theoretical, critical and conceptual background  acquiring specific skills:
- The use of critical documentation, restoration of organic structures, societies, economies and institutions;
- The clarification of the role of chronology and repay him his explanatory value;
- The identification, certification, preservation, study and dissemination of innovative heritage, multiple;
- The development of research capacity, capable of feeding projects, lines and research centers.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

0. Nature and objectives of the subject (“economic space” and “social space” – operational notions) 1. Property, use of resources and landscape development – towards a history of the environment 1.1 The diversity of resources and of the agencies in charge of them - res nullius and res communis. 1.2. Use/regulation/depletion of resources: environmental conflicts and landscape transformations. 2. Informal work and organizational work 2.1. Labour or occupations – an “invented” classification or the threshold of social exclusion and inclusion: analysis and limitations of a quantification of a social and professional structure. 2.2 Identity and work “cultures” - features and strategies of the representations of labour (from guilds to enterprises - do work to employment). 3. Uses and representations of markets 3.1 Buying and selling: products, markets, routes and prices – the mercantile economy and political economy. 3.2 Giving and crediting: credit and micro-credit, goods of the soul and goods of the body – the moral economy and the informal economy. 3.3 Hierarchies and sociability networks-fortunes, values, consumption.

Mandatory literature

BEN-AMOS, Ilana Krausman ; The Culture of giving. Informal support and gift-exchange in Early Modern England, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Carlos Forcadell et alii edit; Usos de la Historia y politicas de la Memoria, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2004
CORBIN, Alain ; Le ciel et la mer, Paris, Bayard, 2005
HUGHES, J. Donald ; What is environmental history?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2006
CHARTIER, Roger ; A História Cultural, entre práticas e representações, 2ªed., Lisboa, Difel, 2002
MÉDA, Dominique ; O trabalho, um valor em vias de extinção, Lisboa, Fim do Século, 1998
FONTAINE, Laurence ; L’économie morale. Pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle, Paris, Gallimard, 2008
OSTROM, Elinor ; Governing the Commons, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990
BECK, Corinne, DELORT, Robert ; Pour une histoire de l’environnement. Travaux du programme interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’environnement, Paris, CNRS éditions, 1993
HOFFMAN, P.T; POSTEL-VINAY, G;ROSENTHAL, J-L; Les marchés sans prix. Une économie politique du crédit à Paris,, Paris, Ed. L’école des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2001

Teaching methods and learning activities

Discussion of program topics taking into account individual projects. Document analysis and commentary. Documentation analysis and systematization (to be developed throughout the course, depending on the students’ projects and their relation with this subject).

keywords

Natural sciences > Environmental science > Natural resources management
Humanities > History > Economic history
Humanities > History > History of agriculture
Humanities > History > Local history
Social sciences > Geography > Historical geography
Humanities > History > Social history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Trabalho laboratorial	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	10,00
Estudo autónomo	102,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes Participation in class and final work

Calculation formula of final grade

By the presence of 75% of the sessions, which will be evaluated according to the following parameters:

- Active participation in class (data analyse and debate) - .
- Research report taking into account:
- Presentation of the research plan in laboratory environment (libraries, archives) - 50%
- Written work that compiles the research laboratory with aims, hypotheses, and the results of laboratory research and findings (50%)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

 

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.