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Contemporary Approaches in Critical Security Studies (ACIS) - JPM668
Anglický název: Contemporary Approaches in Critical Security Studies (ACIS)
Zajišťuje: Katedra mezinárodních vztahů (23-KMV)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2016 do 2016
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 4
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/1, KZ [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / 25 (25)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
Garant: Mgr. Jan Daniel, Ph.D.
Dagmar Rychnovská, M.A., LL.M., Ph.D.
Mgr. Jakub Záhora, Ph.D.
Vyučující: Mgr. Jan Daniel, Ph.D.
Dagmar Rychnovská, M.A., LL.M., Ph.D.
Mgr. Jakub Záhora, Ph.D.
Neslučitelnost : JPM569
Je neslučitelnost pro: JPM569
Ve slož. korekvizitě pro: JPM301
Termíny zkoušek   Rozvrh   Nástěnka   
Anotace - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jakub Záhora, Ph.D. (19.09.2016)
Security is commonly defined as a state of being protected or safe from harm. Enunciating threat to our security can do horrible things. It can make a nation go to war, suspend fundamental rights of large groups of people, waste large amounts of money, close its borders, or at least it can make our way through airport half an hour longer. All of this can happen in order to make us more secure. But how do we know that certain groups, trends, or things could pose a threat to our security? How do these issues become perceived as such, who decides on it and by which means? How can happen that certain security procedures can make some people in the end more insecure? Is security and threats to it perceived and experienced in the same way by all people? And finally, whose security matters? This course shall provide students with theoretical tools that will help them to answer these questions. Concretely, it focuses on the recent development in critical security studies, which has redefined the concept of security and analytical approaches to studying security politics. The course builds especially on Copenhagen and Paris Schools, with their emphasis on social construction of security threats and close attention to security practices and procedures, and their recent reformulation by International Political Sociology approach. Apart from these approaches, the course further introduces new burgeoning areas of research dealing with gender aspects of (in)security, the role of material things and technologies in the process of constructing security, and application of post-colonial perspectives.
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jakub Záhora, Ph.D. (19.09.2016)

The course seeks to familiarize students with approaches to the study of security that depart from traditional paradigms whose attention remains limited to states and material capacities. Its objective is to show that security can, and indeed should be, conceived in much broader terms. These include questions pertaining to, among other, the role of language, seemingly mundane everyday practices of security, and exclusionary nature of security policies. By demonstrating the salience of these issues, the course aims to significantly enrich students' analytical toolbox. Upon the course's completion, participants' widened perspective shall thus enable them to critically reflect on and tackle a variety of problems and phenomena which remain invisible for those opting for traditional understanding of security. Lastly, the course demonstrates the practical relevance of the discussed approaches. Throughout the semester, it highlights the connection between theoretical notions and their repercussions “on the ground”. As a result, the course shows how the adoption of a critical perspective can contribute to policy-making as well as students' own work. 

Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jakub Záhora, Ph.D. (19.09.2016)

Active participation (20%): Students are supposed to read the required literature, prepare for the classes and be able to critically assess the literature and put it in a broader context. If you are unable to attend the seminar, please inform the lecturers in advance (students should not miss more than one seminar during the semester).

Brief papers (36%): For two sessions, each participant shall compose a brief response paper (ca. 2 pages) in which s/he critically discusses the required readings for the given seminar. For two other sessions, each participant shall comment on a response paper written by another student (ca. 0.5 page). The response papers must be submitted via moodle four days before the seminar (by Thursday midnight). The deadline for commentaries is one day before the seminar (Monday 12:00).

Final essay (44%): Each participant is required to prepare a final essay (3 000 to 4 000 words) related to the topic of the course. The essays must be submitted via moodle by 20th January 2017.

Late submissions of the papers will be subject to grade penalty (minus 2 percent points from the total score for each day after the deadline).

Evaluation

Excellent         88-100%

Very good       74-87%

Good               60-73%

Fail                  0-59%

Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jakub Záhora, Ph.D. (19.09.2016)

1, Security studies: A brief history

Apart from providing information on the course itself, this introductory class aims to familiarize students with the history of the discipline of security studies. It starts with discussing its origins in the early years of the Cold War and continues with its development during this period. The class then focuses on the repercussions of the end of the biopolarity on the scholarship concerned with (international) security.

Required readings:

Buzan, Barry and Lene Hansen (2009) The Evolution of International Security Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chap. 4.

Bourbeau, Philippe – Balzacq, Thierry – Dun Cavelty, Myriam (2015) ‘International Relations: Celebrating eclectic dynamism in security studies’, in Bourbeau, Philippe (ed.): Security: Dialogue Across Disciplines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

2, Critical theory in Security Studies and beyond

What is the critical theory (broadly understood) and how it manifested itself in Security Studies and International Relations? These are the two core questions this class seeks to tackle. It first briefly engages philosophical, scientific and political assumptions of critical, post-positivist scholarship, dealing with issues pertaining to how do we study the world around us, and what are the aims of social sciences. These debates are then related directly to the discipline of Security Studies as we discuss the “critical turn” in the discipline in the 1990s and beyond.

Required readings:

Yanow, Dvora (2014) ‘Thinking interpretively: Philosophical presuppositions and the human sciences’, in Yanow, Dvora and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (eds.) Interpretation and method: Empirical research methods and the interpretive turn. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe: 5-26.

Cox, Robert C. (1981) ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory’, Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 10 (2): 126-155 (READ ONLY pp. 126-130).

Jackson, Richard (2012) `How I was radicalized; or, the effects of opening your eyes`, richardjacksonterrorismblog, available at    https://richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/how-i-was-radicalized-or-the-effects-of-opening-your-eyes.          

Hynek Nik - David Chandler (2013) ‘No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies’, Critical Studies on Security, 1 (1): 46-63.

 

3, Security as discourse

First notions that started to challenge the dominance of rationalist approaches in the field of security studies were those that highlighted the importance of security policies' discursive dimension. These works argued that language matters even in the realm which traditional scholars portray as driven by material factors and interests. The seminar demonstrates the continuing salience of this way of thinking and familiarizes students with various approaches concerned with the linguistic construction of security threats.

Required readings:

Buzan, Barry, Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde (1998) Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder, Colo.; London: Lynne Rienner Publishers: ch. 1 and 2.

McInnes, Colin and Simon Rushton (2013) ‘HIV/AIDS and Securitization Theory’, European Journal of International Relations, 19 (1): 115-138.

Jackson, Richard (2007) ‘Constructing Enemies: “Islamic Terrorism” in Political and Academic Discourse’, Government and Opposition, 42 (3): 394–426.

Recommended readings:

Balzacq, Thierry (2010) Securitization Theory: How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve. London and New York: Routledge.

Dillon, Michael and Julien Reid (2009) The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live. London and New York: Routledge.

Stritzel, Holger (2007) ‘Towards a Theory of Securitization: Copenhagen and Beyond’, European Journal of International Relations, 13 (3): 357-383.

Hansen, Lene (2006) Security as Practice. London and New York: Routledge.

 

4, Security as practice and materiality

Elite decision-makers are not the only ones shaping security politics. Arguing that the ways security is practiced “on the ground” matters as well, this seminar shifts the attention from high-level politicians to policemen, military, customs officers, and other security experts and bureaucrats and from political speeches to seemingly insignificant routines of security professionals and technologies they are using. The seminar introduces sociological approaches to security studies and outlines analytical tools for studying security as practice. In its second part, it also introduces the role that materiality play in everyday (in)securing of people and places.

Required readings:

Neumann, Iver B. (2002) ‘Returning Practice to the Linguistic Turn: The Case of Diplomacy’, Millennium-Journal of International Studies, 31 (3): 627-651.

Balzacq, Thierry, Tugba Basaran, Didier Bigo, Emmanuel-Pierre Guitter and Christian Olsson (2010) ‘Security Practices’, International Studies Encyclopaedia, Oxford: Blackwell.

Koddebrock, Kai – Schouten, Peer (2015): ‘Intervention as ontological politics: security, pathologisation, and the failed state effect in Goma’ in Bachmann, Jan -  Bell, Colleen and Caroline Holmqvist (eds.): War, police and assemblages of intervention. London, New York: Routledge.

 

Recommended readings:

Acuto, Michele and Simon Curtis (eds.) (2014) Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Bigo, Didier (2008) ‘Globalized (in)security: the field and the ban-opticon’, in Bigo, Didier and Anastassia Tsoukala (eds.) Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11. Oxon and New York: Routledge: 10-48.

Bueger, Christian (2014) ‘Pathways to practice: praxiography and international politics’, European Political Science Review, 6 (3): 383-406.

 

5, Security: plurality, marginalization and resistance

“Security” is not a unitary concept that has a transcendental and universal meaning. To the contrary, security is experienced differently by different people, depending on their race, class, gender and sexuality. This class thus explores issues of plurality and marginalization which are integral to the study of security, as well as seemingly mundane, everyday dimensions of security. It especially attends to notions derived from post-colonial and gender scholarship as it focuses on limits of Western liberal concepts with regards to post-colonial setting as well as on gender biases of mainstream security studies. 

Required readings:

Wibben, Annick (2016) ‘Introduction: Feminists Study War’ in Wibben, Annick (ed.) Researching War. Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics. London and New York: Routledge: 1-16.

Honke, Jana, and Michael-Markus Muller (2012) ‘Governing (in)security in a Postcolonial World: Transnational Entanglements and the Worldliness of ‘Local’ Practice’, Security Dialogue, 43 (5): 383–401.

Ochs, Juliana (2011) Security and Suspicion. An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel. Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press: chap. 4.

 

Recommended readings:

Sabaratnam, Meera (2013) ‘Avatars of Eurocentrism in the critique of the liberal peace’, Security Dialogue, 44 (3): 259–278.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2000) Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wibben, Annick (2011) Feminist Security Studies: A Narrative Approach. London and New York: Routledge.

Hansen, Lene (2000): ‘The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School’, Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 29 (2): 285-306.

 

6, So what? Normative dilemmas and practical challenges

What perspectives on security do critical security studies offer? What practical problems and normative dilemmas related to contemporary security politics do they highlight? And how can this critique be used to improve our research, advisory or policy work?

Required readings:

Elkus, Adam (2015) ‘The Problem of Bridging the Gap’, Medium.com, available at https://medium.com/@Aelkus/the-problem-of-bridging-the-gap-5498d5f25581.

Godehardt, Nadine (2015) It’s not about Facts, It’s about Meaning: How Do Poststructuralists Advise Policymakers in questions of International Politics and Security?. Working Paper of SWP Asia Research Unit, 2015/Nr. 1, March 2015.

Wiebe, Sarah M. (2013) ‘Affective Terrain: Approaching the Field in Aamjiwnaang’. In Salter, Mark B. and Can E. Mutlu (eds.) Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge: 158-161.

Dauphinee, Elizabeth (2010) ‘The Ethics of Autoethnography’, Review of International Studies, 36 (3): 799-818.

 

Recommended reading:

Gusterson, Hugh (2015) ‘Ethics, Expertise and Human Terrain’. In: Berling, Trine Villumsen and Christian Bueger (eds.) Security Expertise: Practices, Power and Responsibility. London: Routledge.



 
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