Enseñanza de Relaciones Internacionales: reflexiones sobre una experiencia con series de ficción en Argentina

Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane; Luciana Gil

doi:10.24215/23142766e167

Authors

Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas (IIP) - CONICET y Escuela de Política y Gobierno (UNSAM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0134-7714
Luciana Gil Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP-UBA) y Escuela de Política y Gobierno (UNSAM) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0167-7155

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/23142766e167

Keywords:

Teaching International Relations, popular culture, fiction TV shows, biases

Abstract

This article details an experience carried out in an introductory course to International Relations course taught at an Argentine university, where fiction TV shows were incorporated as a pedagogical instrument complementary to academic readings. The analysis is based on the work done with the TV shows throughout the course and on the results of two student surveys, which motivated the teachers' reflection about the experience. The results suggest that fiction TV shows are as useful as complementary material for an introductory course on International Relations. However, its incorporation is not without its challenges, such as the extra time they demand, the difficulty of linking audiovisual and written content, and the risk of reproducing the biases present in foreign TV shows.

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Author Biographies

Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane, Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas (IIP) - CONICET y Escuela de Política y Gobierno (UNSAM)

Doctor en Filosofía (Universidad de Bremen), e investigador asistente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) de Argentina. Profesor de la Escuela de Política y Gobierno de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), donde imparte cursos de grado y posgrado sobre relaciones internacionales, ciberpolítica y comunicación internacional.

Luciana Gil, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP-UBA) y Escuela de Política y Gobierno (UNSAM)

Politóloga y doctora en Ciencias Sociales (UBA). Master en Relaciones Internacionales Mercosur-Unión Europea (Università di Bologna, Italia) y cursos de postgrado y doctorado realizados en las Universidades de Bolzano, Tor Vergata (Italia), Bonn (Alemania), São Paulo (Brasil) y Grenoble (Francia). Profesora de Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) y en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Investigadora asistente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET) en el Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP-UBA).

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