At the end of this course, the students; 1) learn how political theory approaches to the phenomenon of violence. 2) learn to distinguish between different faces of political violence. 3) learn to comprehend the political with its relation to violence.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
No
COURSE DEFINITION
This course stresses the political meaning of violence and its significance for political theory. It focuses on themes such as violence, non-violence, peace, conflict resolution, civil disobedience and aims to develop the students' theoretical analysis capacity on the definition of politics and violence/non-violence. In this manner, the course first leads students to think on what is political. Also, during the course the aforementioned themes are traced in contemporary practices, and by this way it is aimed to develop the theoretical understanding.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction to the course
2nd Week
On human nature
3rd Week
On the political
4th Week
Power and Violence: Conceptualizations
5th Week
State and violence: Army, police force.
6th Week
State and violence: Terrorist groups, paramilitary groups and others
7th Week
Revolutions and Social Movements
8th Week
Revolutions and Social Movements
9th Week
Conscientious objection
10th Week
Civil disobedience and non-violence
11th Week
On peace?-I
12th Week
On peace? -II
13th Week
Gender and violence
14th Week
An Escape from violence: refugees and internally displaced persons
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. New York: Viking Press, 1963. Arendt, Hannah. ?On Violence? Crises of the Republic. New York: A Harvest Book, 1969. Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1994. Back Allen. ?Thinking Clearly About Violence? Philosophical Studies 117, 2004, 219?230.? Benjamin. Walter. Critique of Violence. Selected Writings Vol. 1: 1913-1926. Belknap: Harvard Press, 1996, 242-249. Bedau, Hugo Adam, ed. Civil disobedience: theory and practice. New York: Pegasus, 1969. Brown, Wendy. ?Women?s Studies Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics,? Parallax 9(2), 2003, 3?16. Brown, Judith Margaret. Gandhi and civil disobedience. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Buchan, Bruce. ?Liberalism and Fear of Violence,? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 4 (3), 2001, 27-48. Buffachi, Vittorio. ?Two Concepts of Violence? Political Studies Review 3, 2005, 193?204 Chambers, Samuel A. ?Normative Violence after 9/11: Rereading the Politics of Gender Trouble,? New Political Science, 29 (1), 2007, 43?60. Derriennic, Jean-Pierre. ?Theory and Ideologies of Violence,? Journal of Peace Research 9 (4), 1972, 361-374. Dewey, John. ?Force, Violence and Law and Force and Coercion,? International Journal of Ethics, 1916, 359-367. Dunn, Susan. ?From Burke to Camus: Reconceiving the Revolution,? Salmagundi 84, 1989. 214-229. Fanon, Frantz. 1963. The Wretched of the Earth, Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, New York: Grove Weidenfeld. Foucault, Michel, and Lawrence D. Kritzman. ?On Power.? Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984. New York: Routledge, 1998, 96-109. Frazer, Elizabeth & Kimberly Hutchings. 2008. ?On Politics and Violence: Arendt Contra Fanon,? Contemporary Political Theory 7: 90?108. Frazer, Elizabeth, & Kimberly Hutchings. "Virtuous violence and the politics of statecraft in Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Weber." Political Studies 59.1, 2011, 56-73. Galtung, Johann. ?Violence, Peace and Peace Research,? Journal of Peace Research 6 (3), 1969, 167-191. Galtung, Johan. Peace with peaceful means. PRIO, 1991. Galtung, Johan. Essays in peace research. Vol. 1. Copenhagen: Ejlers, 1975. Habermas, Jürgen. ?Civil Disobedience: Litmus Test for the Democratic Constitutional State,? Berkeley Journal of Sociology 30, 1985, 95-116 Heller, Agnes. ?The Concept of the Political Revisited.? In David Held ed., Political Theory Today. SUP, Stanford, 1991. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. CB MacPherson, ed. and intro. New York: Penguin, 1968. Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual Peace Hans Reiss ed. Kant?s Political Writings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 93-131. Keane, John. Reflections on Violence. London: Verso, 1996. Kydd, Andrew H., & Barbara F. Walter. "The strategies of terrorism." International Security 31.1, 2006,: 49-80. Lee, Alexander. "Who Becomes a Terrorist?: Poverty, Education, and the Origins of Political Violence." World Politics 63.02, 2011, 203-245. Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, [1690] 1980. Machiavelli, Nicolo. The Prince and the Discourses, New York: Modern Library College Editions, 1950. Neocleous, Mark. The fabrication of social order: A critical theory of police power. Pluto Press, 2000.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
40
Assignment
2
60
Total(%)
100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
0
Total(%)
100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities
Number
Hours
Workload
Midterm exam
1
5
5
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
14
7
98
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
1
35
35
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework
2
60
120
Total Workload
300
Total Workload / 30
10
ECTS Credits of the Course
10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
