ClassInfo - Spring 2018 Political Science Classes

Spring 2018 | POL 8260 Section 001: Topics in Political Theory -- Theorizing Violence (67075)

Instructor(s): Robert Nichols
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018

Tue 03:35PM - 05:20PM

UMTC, West Bank

Social Sciences Building 1450
Enrollment Status:: Open (8 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2023

Course Catalog Description:: Readings and research in special topics or problems.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rbnichol+POL8260+Spring2018
Class Description:: This course involves a study of the specific problems associated with conceptualizing and representing violence. We will focus on two issues in particular. First, we will consider how the post-WWII era inaugurated a new concern in European social and political thought with the relationship between violence and representation. Second, we will investigate how translatable (or not) these European debates are to theorizing the violence of colonization and white supremacy in the North American context. This course will explore these issues through a highly interdisciplinary set of texts, including works of aesthetics, anthropology, history, philosophy, and political theory.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67075/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 10 October 2017

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