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The full title: Reading Europe from Its East: re-framing the poly-crisis from the Eastern European perspective<br>
<br> The course examines the project of united Europe through its underlying, and at times dueling, social and political imaginaries. The suggested optics goes beyond the focus on the EU institutions and procedures, on the one hand, and counter to “nichification” of East European studies, on the other. Bringing East European takes on European integration into the general discussion aims to expose how the inclusion of former Soviet countries changed and challenged the European project. Several nodal points define the architecture of the course: 1) symbolic geography and persistent internal othering, where the European East stands as the major internal Other; 2) complex imperial/colonial legacy that plays out when the former maritime metropoles and the wrecks of former land empires are unified under the common EU umbrella; 3) socioeconomic inequality between people, nations, and polities, and symbolic hierarchies deriving from it; 4) the cascade of the EU crises – how they reverberated on the West – East cleavage and on the fragile European unity, where the turmoil in Ukraine, the refugee crisis, the rise of populism, and the recent pandemic are the main foci of attention. Sessions will be held in Zoom: https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/91351806736 The course materials are available on Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=13321 Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (09.03.2022)
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Through the course students will learn to: · Assess the EU as a heterogenous and problematic transnational unity that advances through crises; · Engage in well-informed debates on the idea of Europe that underpins European integration and defines its perspectives and limits; · Understand the role of Eastern Enlargement in establishing the EU as a geopolitical actor, as well as the challenges that arose from that fact; · Critically address internal cleavages and power hierarchies within Europe; · Recognize the root causes and the consequences of the recent crises framed as a “poly-crisis”, with a special focus on the East European region. Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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Weekly schedule
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Course Requirements and Assessment
Detailed description of the assignments
Students should participate actively in the course. Mere attendance is not active participation. To take active part in the class means, for instance, to present findings from compulsory readings, to comment on the topic, to discuss with other students, to answer questions raised by the instructor, and to ask own questions. · Presentation Presentation should be based on one of the additional readings which are indicated to every class session. Selection is up to students. Presentation should take about 15-20 minutes. · Final Paper Final paper should be based on a chosen topic approved by the instructor beforehand. It must be related to some of the topics presented in the course. At least some of the literature listed in the syllabus should be used. The length of the paper should be 2 000 words. The final paper is due to May 1, 2022.
Grading Scale
Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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Literature: Beck, Ulrich (2017). The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World. Polity. Bickerton, Christopher J.; & Invernizzi Acetti, Carlo (2021). Technopopulism. The New Logic of Democratic Politics. Oxford University Press. Brown, Wendy (2017). Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism´s Stealth Revolution. The MIT Press. Chari, Sharad, & Verdery, Katherine. (2009). Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War. In: Comparative Studies in Society and History, 51(1): 6-34. Fukuyama, Francis (1989). End of History? In: The National Interest, Summer: 3-18. Gerbaudo, Paolo (2017). The Mask and the Flag. Populism, Citizenism, and Global Protest. Oxford University Press. Gerbaudo, Paolo (2019). The Digital Party. Political Organisation and Online Democracy. Pluto Press. Hale, H. E. (2015). Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Jowitt, Kenneth (1991). The New World Disorder. In: Journal of Democracy, Volume 2, Number 1, Winter: 11-20. Kiossev, Alexander (2008). The Self-Colonizing Metaphor. In: Atlas of Transformation. Available at: http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/html/s/self-colonization/the-self-colonizing-metaphor-alexander-kiossev.html Korablyova, Valeria (2015). Pariahs and parvenus? Refugees and new divisions in Europe. In: Eurozine, November 26, 2015. https://www.eurozine.com/pariahs-and-parvenus/ Korablyova, Valeria (2016). The EU project of Europe: the 'inclusion – exclusion' game? In: The Power of the Norm. Fragile rules and significant exceptions, ed. E. Betti, K. Miller, Vienna: IWM Junior Visiting Fellows' Conferences, Vol. 35. https://www.iwm.at/publications/5-junior-visiting-fellows-conferences/vol-xxxv/the-eu-project-of-europe/ Korablyova, Valeria (2019). EuroMaidan and the 1989 legacy: solidarity in action? In: The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution / Piotr H. Kosicki, Kyrill Kunakhovich, (eds), CEU Press, Ch. 9, 231-252. Korablyova, Valeria (2020). Еurope as an Object of Desire: Ukraine between “Psychological Europe” and the “Soviet Mentality”. In: Topos, 2020, # 2, 79-99. http://journals.ehu.lt/index.php/topos/article/view/1023 Krastev, Ivan (2020). Is It Tomorrow, Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic. Penguin Books. Krastev, Ivan. (2017) After Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Kundera, Milan. (1984). The Stolen West, or The Tragedy of Central Europe. In: The New York Review of Books, 31, 7, 26 April. Melegh, Attila, On the East – West slope. Globalization, nationalism, racism and discourses on Central and Eastern Europe, CEU Press, Budapest-New York, 2006. Moisi, Dominique (2010). The Geopolitics of Emotions. How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope Are Reshaping the World. Doubleday. Neumann, Iver B. (1999). Uses of the Other. “The East” in European Identity Formation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Ch. 1, 5: 1-38, 143-160. Popescu, Nicu, & Wilson, Andrew. (2009) The limits of Enlargement-lite: European and Russian power in the troubled neighbourhood. Policy report. London: ECFR. Runciman, David (2018). How Democracy Ends. Profile Books Ltd. Schell, Jonathan (2009). The End of the Age of Empire. In: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 22, no. 4: 422. Slačálek, Ondřej. (2016) The postcolonial hypothesis: Notes on the Czech “Central European” identity. In: Annual of Language & Politics & Politics of Identity, Vol. 10, p. 27–44. Snyder, Timothy (2015). Integration and Disintegration: Europe, Ukraine, and the World. In: Slavic Review, Vol. 74, No. 4 (WINTER 2015), pp. 695-707. Urbinati, Nadia (2014). Democracy Disfigured. Opinion, Truth, and the People. Harvard University Press Van Middeelaar, Luuk (2019). Alarums & Excursions. Improvising Politics on the European Stage. Agenda Publishing. Wilson, Andrew (2005). Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press. Wolff, Larry (1994), Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford University Press. Zakaria, Fareed (2020). Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. W.W. Norton & Company. Zarycki, Tomacz. (2014). Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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The main teaching methods of this course are peer learning and focused discussions. Therefore, the instructor gives only introductory mini-lectures to open the topic of the week, while the main attention and the learning medium are debates on the assigned reading. Thus, every class starts with an introductory micro-lecture by the instructor, then we proceed with a presentation by one or couple of students followed by a general discussion of the literature on the topic. Whereas every enrolled student is obliged to do the mandatory reading for every class (2-3 papers), a presenter should pick a source from further reading and elaborate on it in her presentation (around 15 mins long, in a format of her choice). The course has a strong theoretical emphasis, where facts and empirical evidence are used to illustrate a certain framing of ongoing developments. Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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Final paper should be based on a chosen topic approved by the instructor beforehand. It must be related to some of the topics presented in the course. At least some of the literature listed in the syllabus should be used. The length of the paper should be 2 000 words. The final paper is due to May 1, 2022.
Detailed description of the assignments
Students should participate actively in the course. Mere attendance is not active participation. To take active part in the class means, for instance, to present findings from compulsory readings, to comment on the topic, to discuss with other students, to answer questions raised by the instructor, and to ask own questions. · Presentation Presentation should be based on one of the additional readings which are indicated to every class session. Selection is up to students. Presentation should take about 15-20 minutes. · Final Paper Final paper should be based on a chosen topic approved by the instructor beforehand. It must be related to some of the topics presented in the course. At least some of the literature listed in the syllabus should be used. The length of the paper should be 2 000 words. The final paper is due to May 1, 2022.
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Proficiency in English is required, as all the materials, and class discussions are to be held in English. The ability to formulate and express one's thoughts in class is requested, as well as certain skills in analysing and critically addressing the assigned literature. Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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No fixed criteria for selection, as students of all levels of studies are accepted. The ability to critically address the suggested literature and engage in well-informed discussions in class are required. Basic knowledge on East Central Europe would be a plus, although not a requirement. A certain proclivity to theoretical debate would help you feel more at ease in class. Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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No fixed criteria for selection, as students of all levels of studies are accepted. The ability to critically address the suggested literature and engage in well-informed discussions in class are required. Basic knowledge on East Central Europe would be a plus, although not a requirement. A certain proclivity to theoretical debate would help you feel more at ease in class. Last update: Korablyova Valeriya, Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
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