Module POC1022 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC1022: Violence in World Politics
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Aims
The aim of this module is to:
- Introduce you to a range of contemporary forms of violence in world politics, and provide you with the conceptual and analytical tools to critically assess their origins, nature and impact.
- Enable you to critically analyse and evaluate violence through the lens of different theories in International Relations.
- Develop research skills and the ability to find, understand and critically evaluate contemporary political practices.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate an empirical familiarity with a range of contemporary political problems and the debates that they have generated; 2. evaluate and compare different framings and responses; 3. demonstrate an awareness and some capacity think critically about the causes of, and responses to, different forms of violence in world politics. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. identify, discuss major political concepts and theories, and apply them to actual events and outcomes; 5. list, describe, and evaluate different interpretations and reasoned criticisms of scholarship; 6. construct well-structured, sympathetic and rigorous arguments based on logical deduction. |
Personal and Key Skills | 7. interact effectively within a group to develop argument and analysis, and communicate this effectively to others via oral and written forms; 8. work independently and manage time efficiently in preparing for scheduled learning activities, exercises and assessments; 9. efficiently identify, retrieve and evaluate a range of library-based and electronic research resources, with some guidance. |
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.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann In Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.:Penguin Books, 1994
Baaz, Maria Eriksson, and Maria Stern. "Why do soldiers rape? Masculinity, violence, and sexuality in the armed forces in the Congo (DRC)." International Studies Quarterly 53.2 (2009): 495-518.
Barkawi, Tarak, and Mark Laffey. "The imperial peace: democracy, force and globalization." European Journal of International Relations 5.4 (1999): 403-434.
Davis, Angela Y. Are prisons obsolete?. Seven Stories Press, 2011.
Devji, Faisal. "The paradox of nonviolence." Public Culture 23, no. 2 (2011): 269-274.
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961. The Wretched of the Earth. New York :Grove Press, 1968.
Galtung, Johan, and Tord Höivik. "Structural and direct violence: A note on operationalization." Journal of Peace Research 8.1 (1971): 73-76.
Galtung, Johan. "Cultural violence." Journal of peace research 27.3 (1990): 291-305.
Howard, Michael. War and the liberal conscience: The George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures in the University of Cambridge, 1977. Anaya-Spain, 1986.
Guru, Gopal. Humiliation: Claims and Context. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009
Nandy, Ashis. "The invisible holocaust and the journey as an exodus: the poisoned village and the stranger city." Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy 2, no. 3 (1999): 305-329.
Shepherd, Laura J. Gender, violence and security: Discourse as practice. Zed Books, 2008.