PSIR542
COMPARATIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
- Course Code
- PSIR542
- Semester
- -
- Theory+Practice
- 3 + 0
- ECTS
- 10
| Course Type | Elective Course | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course Level | Master's Degree With Thesis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year of Study | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Semester | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ECTS | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recommended Optional Programme Components | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Description | This course examines Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through the lens of the social movement theory and the inclusion-moderation hypothesis. Although the Shiite Islamist movement will also be briefly examined within the Iranian context, the central focus of the course is Sunni Islamist movements. Despite its long-time presence, it was only since the 1990s that the Islamist movement (i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood [MB] movement) successfully mobilized itself by utilizing democratic means in the MENA region. Political Islamist parties, with diligent movement activists and strong organizational resources successfully seized upon existing political opportunity structures and at times created new ones, while pursuing framing efforts, which appealed to the electorate and the masses. By doing so, they successfully competed in elections and challenged authoritarian, semi-authoritarian, and semi-democratic political settings in Muslim populated countries. Besides the MB movement, the other long-standing Sunni Islamist movement in the MENA region is Salafism. This course shows that neither the MB movement nor Salafism is monolithic and static. On the contrary, both movements vary amongst themselves and change over time. The Arab uprisings in the winter of 2010 resulted in the mobilization of the MB and Salafism in the region. The course will examine both movements in selected cases (i.e., Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Algeria, and Tunisia) by applying the social movement theory and the inclusion-moderation hypothesis. This course has three primary goals: First, it introduces students to the main concepts in political Islamist thought, contemporary political Islam, and its relationship with democracy; second, it examines major theoretical approaches of the social movement literature; and finally, it analyzes cases of Islamist mobilization in the MENA region according to the social movement theory and the inclusion-moderation hypothesis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Quintan Wiktorowicz (ed.), Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Indiana UP, 2004) Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Harvard UP, 2002) Dale Eickelman & James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton UP, 1996) John L. Esposito, Islam and Politics (4th ed., Syracuse UP, 1991) Charles Kurzman, Structural Opportunity and Perceived Opportunity? American Sociological Review, 1996 Banu Eligür, The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey (Cambridge UP, 2010) Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Mobilizing Islam (Columbia UP, 2002); The Muslim Brotherhood (Princeton UP, 2013) Wiktorowicz, The Management of Islamic Activism (SUNY, 2001) William Quandt, Between Ballots and Bullets (Brookings Institution, 1998) Joas Wagemakers, The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan (Cambridge UP, 2020) Marc Lynch, Islam Divided Between Salafi-jihad and Ikhwan, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2010 Henri Lauziere, The Construction of Salafiyya, IJMES, 2010 Jillian Schwedler, Can Islamists Become Moderates? World Politics, 2011 Janine A. Clark, The Conditions of Islamist Moderation, IJMES, 2006 Vickie Langohr, Of Islamists and Ballot Boxes, IJMES, 2001 Sheri Berman, Islamism, Revolution, and Civil Society, Perspectives on Politics, 2003 Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement (2nd ed., Cambridge UP, 1998) Doug McAdam et al. (eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements (Cambridge UP, 1996) Robert Benford & David Snow, Framing Processes and Social Movements, Annual Review of Sociology, 2000 Mario Diani & Doug McAdam (eds.), Social Movements and Networks (Oxford UP, 2003) Janine Clark, Islam, Charity, and Activism (Indiana UP, 2004) Frederic Volpi & James M. Jasper (eds.), Microfoundations of Arab Uprisings (Amsterdam UP, 2018) Wendy Pearlman, Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings, Perspectives on Politics, 2013 Dara Conduit, The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (Cambridge UP, 2019) Rory McCarthy, Inside Tunisia?s Al-Nahda (Cambridge UP, 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Work Placement(s) | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes
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| K1 | X | |||
| K2 | X | X | X | X |
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| K4 | X | X | X | X |
| K5 | X | X | X | X |
| K6 | X | X | X | X |
| K7 | X | |||
| K8 | X |