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240507 VO Selected Topics in Social Theory (P2) (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.

  • Friday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Monday 07.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Wednesday 09.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Friday 11.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Monday 14.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Wednesday 16.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Friday 18.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

This graduate lecture seminar introduces a selected repertoire of key concepts in current debates in social sciences. It aims to develop a relational and conjunctural understanding of identity, violence, warfare, temporality, law, rights, power, and difference in their interactions with broader relations in our contemporary societies. How can we reconceptualize violence through a lens of temporality? Does law produce difference? What are the different definitions of rights? How do these different definitions bring forward different conceptualizations of identity and power?

The methods and sources we discuss are multiple and varied—from sociology and history, anthropology, political economy, environmental studies, critical race and gender studies, and geography.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the semester, students will:
1) be fluent and theoretically knowledgeable in the key concepts and issues covered in this course.
2) develop a reflexive and critical approach to these concepts and be capable of creating relations between concepts and theories
3) have a better understanding of the investigative and creative parts of academic research by developing their critical reading and analysis skills

Assessment and permitted materials

At the end of the semester, there will be a written exam. No aids can be used during the exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

For a positive grade 51 % are required
90-100 %= 1
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5

Examination topics

Written examination including all course readings

Reading list

(Tentative, students may expect 2-3 articles per meeting)

Bourgois, Philip. 2001. “The Power of Violence in War and Peace.” Ethnography 21 (1): 5–34.
Carbonnier, Gilles. 2015. Humanitarian Economics : War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market. London: Hurst & Company.
Farmer, Paul. 2004. “An Anthropology of Structural Violence.” Current Anthropology 45 (3): 305–25. https://doi.org/10.1086/382250.
Federici, Silvia. 2000. “War, Globalization, and Reproduction.” Peace & Change 25 (2): 153–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/0149-0508.00148.
Fraser, Nancy. 1995. “From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-Socialist’ Age.” New Left Review.
Kaldor, Mary. 2013. “In Defence of New Wars.” Stability 2 (1): 1–16.
Lawrence, Bruce B., and Aisha Karim, eds. 2007. On Violence. A Reader. Duke University Press.
Lukes, Steven. 2005. Power: A Radical View. 2. [expanded] ed., 3. [print.]. Basingstoke [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lutz, Catherine. 2002. “Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis.” American Anthropologist 104 (3): 723–35.
Mayer, Margit. 2012. “The Right to the City in Urban Social Movements.” In Cities for People, Not for Profit : Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer, 1. publ.. London [u.a.]: Routledge. https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC08811066.
Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=390165.
Nordstrom, Carolyn. 2000. “Shadows and Sovereigns.” Theory, Culture and Society 17 (4): 35–54.
Robben, Antonius, and Carolyn Nordstrom. 1995. “Introduction.” In Fieldwork Under Fire, edited by Antonius Robben and Carolyn Nordstrom, 1–25. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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