|
| Udgave: |
Forår 2013 Samf |
| ECTS points: |
10 ECTS |
| Punkter: |
10 ECTS |
Semester: |
Spring 2013 |
| Uddannelsesdel: |
Kandidat niveau |
| Kontaktpersoner: |
Noel Parker
(Coordinator for courses in English: Anders Berg-Sørensen)
|
| Skema- oplysninger: |
 Vis skema for kurset
Samlet oversigt over tid og sted for alle kurser inden for Lektionsplan for Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet Forår 2013 Samf |
| Undervisnings- form: |
The course will be presented in ten 3-hour sessions, including time for class discussion, together with reading presented through the course web-side and semester shelf. Both are promoted via a webpage for the course, where students will find questions to consider during their studies, links to reading, summaries of lectures and discussions, and the possibility to participate in an ongoing discussion.
The primary reading will be taken from books placed on the libraries’ two semester shelves, or items uploaded to the course webpage, together with sources available on the internet – including the Royal Library’s ‘Elektra’. A full list of literature relevant to the topic will be provided – and periodically updated – via the webpage. Texts from that list will be flagged on the webpage programme as prime texts for each session. Students proceeding to the exam are expected to take at least half their petitum literature from the longer list.
As for all MA-level courses, students registering for the exam are required to produce their own ‘petitum’ list of 1200 pages of text which has to be approved and signed by the lecturer for the course. Please note that for this course:
i) At least half the texts chosen for a petitum must be from my long list of literature (which will be published on the course webpage);
ii) in order to allow time for comment and modification before final approval, I will be setting my own deadlines for submission of draft and final petitum lists.
|
| Formål: |
With that in mind, the course aims to:
-
To give an introduction, overview and contextualization of debates on terrorism and of the burgeoning sub-discipline of Terrorism Studies.
-
To identify and analyse the input of different disciplines to constructing ‘terrorism’ as an object of study.
-
To make explicit the ways in which political reactions for terrorism may be shaped as much by these different disciplines as by plain realities.
-
To explicate the insights into terrorism available from some long-standing related fields of theoretical reflection on, e.g., rebellion, revolution, social conflict, political extremism etc.
-
Hence to facilitate reasoned debate as to what the problem(s) of terrorism is/are, its/their relative importance, and discuss appropriate responses.
The grading for semester-end assessments will award:
Grading follows the Danish ‘7-point’ scale, which provides for grades of 12, 10, 7, 4, 02, 0, or -3. To indicate the level required:
-
Grade 12 for an excellent performance displaying a high level of command of with no or only a few minor weaknesses.
-
Grade 7 for a performance displaying good command of many aspects of the material and objectives above, but also some weaknesses.
-
Grade 02 for a performance meeting only the minimum requirements for acceptance. Lower grades indicate different levels of failure.
|
| Indhold: |
The course sketches out the context in which ‘terrorism’ dramatically appeared on the political agenda about ten years ago, thereafter altering political attitudes and governmental practices - perhaps irreversibly.
After initially setting the scene with the role of fear and threat per se in western-style government and political thought, the course will consider various definitions of terrorism. Then, it will raise questions regarding the specificity of ‘modern terrorism’ and ‘religious terrorism’. It will go on to consider how terrorism is presented to wider publics, e.g. via mass media.
Finally, it raises afresh the question: ‘What are the problems of terrorism?’ to enable students to resolve the issues for themselves with better information and sharpened analytical tools.
|
| Målbeskrivelse: |
By the completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate a knowledge of research literature on terrorism and associated phenomena.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how terrorism and associated phenomena can be conceptualized, studied and addressed as policy problems.
3. Demonstrate an ability to consider questions of what terrorism does mean, or should mean in the context of government.
These objectives will be referred to when exam performance is being assessed.
|
| Lærebøger: |
Primary Literature (provisional list)
Bin Laden, Osama. Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden. Edited by Bruce Lawrence. London: Verso, 2005.
Bobbitt, Philip. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Knopf, 2008.
Chaliand, Gérard, and Arnaud Blin, eds. The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qaeda. Translated by Edward Schneider, Kathryn Pulver, and Jesse Browner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Croft, Stuart. Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Debrix, Francois. Tabloid Terror: War, Culture and Geopolitics. London: Routledge, 2007.
Gupta, Dipak K. Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise. London: Routledge, 2008.
Jenkins, Philip. Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism. Aldine de Gruyter, 2003.
Leeman, Richard W. The Rhetoric of Terrorism and Counterterrorism. New York: Greenwood Press. 1991.
Mamdami, Mahmood. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Morgenthau, Hans J. Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. 1948. Edited by Kenneth W. Thompson and David Clinton. 7. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005.
Scott, J. C. (2008). Everyday forms of resistance. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 4 (89), 33-62.
Stephens, Angharad Closs, and Nick Vaughan-Williams.2008, eds. Terrorism and the Politics of Response. London: Routledge.
Tilly, Charles. The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Zakarol, A. (2011, December). What makes terrorism modern? Terrorism, legitimacy,and the international system. Review of International Studies, 37(5), 2311-2336.
Zizek, Slavoj. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections. New York: Picador, 2008.
|
| Faglige forudsætninger: |
A basic university-level knowledge of history, political theory, and/or international relations.
|
| Eksamensform: |
Free assignment/ Written Examination.
|
| Kursus hjemmeside: |
 |
| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
|
| Sidst redigeret: |
5/11-2012 |