Welcome to blog of the course „Switzerland for Incomings“ in fall semester 2018. The module „Switzerland for Incomings“ targets at exchange students of all disciplines being guest at the University of Zurich. This blog is an archive of student’s assessments. Students create their kaleidoscope of views on Switzerland.
Our view of other people’s everyday life is strongly influenced by medial patterns and often follows a touristic gaze. An exercise in ethnographic photography helps to decode these patterns and to find other realities behind them. Please read students‘ Blogposts
is a metaphor referring to the idea that this small alpine country is not to be confounded with the pittoresque picture of it. It is a starting point to take a closer look at Switzerland’s diversity. At Rosenhof market interviews are conducted to follow those tracks. Please read students‘ Blogposts
Spaces, from a cultural anthropological perspective, are not only located at specific places but are created through actors‘ practices. Systematic observation at a specific place, the Sechseläuten square, allows to perceive logics of spaces, and usages of a place may be recognized and described. Please read students‘ Blogposts