VIOLENCE AND POLITICS

PSIR617

Course Code: PSIR617
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Doctorate Of Science

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Nazlı Şenses Özcan

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

learn how political theory approaches to the phenomenon of violence.
learn to distinguish between different faces of political violence.
learn to comprehend the political with its relation to violence.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

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
1^st Week	Introduction to the course
2^nd Week	On human nature
3^rd Week	On the political
4^th Week	Power and Violence: Conceptualizations
5^th Week	State and violence: Army, police force.
6^th Week	State and violence: Terrorist groups, paramilitary groups and others
7^th Week	Revolutions and Social Movements
8^th Week	Revolutions and Social Movements
9^th Week	Conscientious objection
10^th Week	Civil disobedience and non-violence
11^th Week	On peace-I
12^th Week	On peace -II
13^th Week	Gender and violence
14^th Week	An Escape from violence: refugees and internally displaced persons

Recommended 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 Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	2	2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	6	84
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	40	40
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework	2	70	140
Total Work Load			308
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.26
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1
K2
K3	X	X	X
K4	X	X	X
K5	X	X	X
K6
K7
K8
K9
K10
K11	X	X	X
K12	X