Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA3045: War, Violence and Revolution in the Modern Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level 6
Credits 30 ECTS Value 15
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Dr Ross Porter (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module aims to equip you with a detailed understanding of the ways in which war, violence and revolution have been formative of modern polities and societies in the modern Middle East. Throughout the course, different theories of violence will be examined in relation to diverse contexts of conflict and struggle. Subjects range from colonial psychiatry to the violence of liberation struggle, from the eliminationist logics of settler colonialism to the ambiguities of humanitarian intervention, and from structural and cultural genocide to the symbolic dimensions of martyrdom.

Module created

08/03/2020

Last revised

29/09/2020