Module POLM170 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM170: Understanding Israel and Palestine: Anatomy of Violence
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- One Hundred Years of Violence
- Technologies of Violence
- Territoriality and Borders
- Violence of Architecture
- Terrorism
- Cultural Violence: Violence of Words
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 278 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 11x two-hour seminars. There will be a mix of lectures led by the module convenor, student presentations, and group work. |
| Guided Independent Study | 70 | Private Study - reading and preparing for seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 104 | Preparation for essay - including researching and collating relevant sources, planning the structure and argument, and writing up. |
| Guided Independent Study | 104 | Preparation of exam - including researching and collating relevant sources, planning the structure and argument, and writing up. |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Amnesty International. Israel and the Occupied Territories - www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories - www.btselem.org/
International Crisis Group - www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/israel-palestine
Israel Foreign Ministry - www.mfa.gov.il
Israel Democracy Institute- www.en.idi.org.il
Negotiations Affairs Department, Palestine Liberation Organisation- www.nad-plo.org
Other Learning Resources
The Gatekeepers (2002, Dror Moreh)
Occupation 101 (2006, Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish,)
State 194 (2013,Dan Setton,)
Paradise Now (2016, Hany Abu-Assad)
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Azoulay, A. & A. Ophir (2009) The Order of Violence, in: A. Ophir, M. Givoni & S. Hanafi (Eds) The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in The Occupied Territories (New York, NY: Zone Books).
Barash, D.P. & C. Webel (2002) Peace and Conflict Studies (London: Sage Publications Ltd).
Coady, C. A. J. (1986) The Idea of Violence, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 3(1), pp. 3- 19.
Galtung, J. (1969) Violence, Peace, and Peace Research, Journal of Peace Research, 6(3), pp. 167-191.
Galtung, J. (1990) Cultural violence, Journal of Peace Research, 27(3), pp. 291-305.
Gordon, N. (2008b) Israel's Occupation (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press).
Thomas, C. (2011) ‘Why don’t we talk about ‘violence’ in International Relations?’, Review of International Studies, 37(4), pp. 1815-1836.
Weizman, E. (2007) Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (New York, NY: Verso).
Winter, Y. (2012) Violence and Visibility, New Political Science, 34(2), pp. 195-202.
Tilly, C. (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Caplan, N. (2010)The Israel-Palestine Conflict. Contested Histories (Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).
Gerner, D., J. (1991) One Land, Two Peoples: The conflict over Palestine (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press)
Gelvin, J.L. (2007) The Israel-Palestine conflict: one hundred years of war (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Milton-Edwards, B. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People’s War (London: Routledge, 2009)
Mahler. G. S. and Mahler, A., R. (2010) The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Document Reader (London: Routledge)
Peters, J. and Newman, D. (2013)Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (London and New York: Routledge)
