Module POC3106 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3106: Biopolitics of Security
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 page plan of critical research paper | Week 2 onwards submission in class or by email | 1-6 | Verbal/written |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review essay | 30 | 1500 words | 1-6 | Written |
| Critical research paper | 70 | 3000 words | 1-6 | Written |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review Essay | Review Essay (1500 words) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment period |
| Critical research paper | Critical research paper (3000 words) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment period |
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.
Basic reading:
- Lowe, Lisa. The intimacies of four continents. Duke University Press, 2015.
- Foucault, Michel. " Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976. Vol. 1. Macmillan, 2003.
- Foucault, Michel. "The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I." Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage 95 (1990).
- Nishiyama, Hidefumi. "Towards a global genealogy of biopolitics: Race, colonialism, and biometrics beyond Europe." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 2 (2015): 331-346.
- Foucault, Michel. Power: the essential works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984. Penguin UK, 2019.
- Davis, Angela Y. Are prisons obsolete?. Seven Stories Press, 2011.
- Wacquant, Loïc. "Slavery to mass incarceration." New left review 13 (2002): 41.
- Mamdani, Mahmood. "Making sense of political violence in postcolonial Africa." In War and Peace in the 20th Century and Beyond, pp. 71-99. 2003.
- Roberts, Dorothy E. Killing the black body: Race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty. Vintage, 1999.
- Guru, Gopal. "Introduction: theorizing humiliation." Humiliation: claims and context (2009): 1-22.
- Jaaware, Aniket. "Eating and Eating with the Dalit: A Reconsideration Touching upon Marathi Poetry." Indian Poetry: Modernism and After (2001): 262-93.
- Agamben, Giorgio. Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford University Press, 1998.
- Agamben, Giorgio. State of exception . Vol. 2. University of Chicago Press, 2005. (Selections)
- Butler, Judith. Precarious life: The powers of mourning and violence . Verso, 2006. (Selections)
- Mbembé, J-A., and Libby Meintjes. "Necropolitics." Public culture 15, no. 1 (2003): 11-40.
- Basaran, Tugba. "The saved and the drowned: Governing indifference in the name of security." Security Dialogue 46, no. 3 (2015): 205-220.
- Ticktin, Miriam. "Policing and humanitarianism in France: immigration and the turn to law as state of exception." Interventions 7, no. 3 (2005): 346-368.
- Doty, Roxanne Lynn. "Bare life: border-crossing deaths and spaces of moral alibi." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29, no. 4 (2011): 599-612.
Films
Modern Times. Directed by Charlie Chaplin (1936)
Lemon Tree. Directed by Eran Riklis (2008)
The Battle of Algiers. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (1965)
The Architecture of Violence. Directed by Ana Naomi de Sousa (2014)
