Global Politics Meets Science and Technology Studies - JPM141

• Anglický název: Global Politics Meets Science and Technology Studies
• Zajišťuje: Katedra mezinárodních vztahů (23-KMV)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2022
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (25)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Další informace: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=13340
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D. (02.02.2022)

This course will be taught by Dr. Linda Monsees, Institute of International Relations, Prague (https://www.iir.cz/en/linda-monsees).

This seminar provides an insight into the role of technology for global politics. Theoretically, we focus on constructivist theories, Actor-Network Theory and the socio-technological imaginaries. In that sense the seminar offers a view into the field of science and technology studies. Empirically, we will discuss the role of digital technology for security, algorithmic governance and disinformation. Students should be interested in reading and discussing theoretical texts and good knowledge of political and social theory is an advantage.

Cíl předmětu

Poslední úprava: Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D. (02.02.2022)

The course will equip students with a good understanding of current IR debates on the politics of technology. Furthermore, the course will allow students to assess the role of contemporary technologies and improve their analytical skills.

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D. (02.02.2022)

Assessment:

• 10%: Attendance and Participation
• 50%: Take Home Exam
• 40%: Response Paper

Take Home Exam: The exam will be handed out in week 9. Students will have about 5 days to work on it. The exam covers all material that has been covered in class until that point. Students will have to write about 2.500 words.

Response Paper: Students will have to write three short response papers for three different sessions (each max. 500 words). Ideally, a response paper first summarizes the text briefly (!). The student should then develop their own thought in the form of a question, point of critique or relate it to a previous reading covered in class. For the first session students are welcome to write a paper that counts as a wild card. I will grade the paper, but students can choose to write two more papers and the grade for this first paper will thus not count. Texts marked with an * cannot be used for a response paper.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D. (02.02.2022)

• Mayer, M., Carpes, M., & Knoblich, R.  Introduction. 2014. “The global politics of science and technology” In Volume 1: concepts from international relations and other disciplines. Ibid (eds.).
• Trevor J. Pinch, und Wiebe E. Bijker. 1984. “The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other.“ Social Studies of Science 14 (3), 399–441.
• Rubio Fernando Domínguez.2011. “Benches, stairs, sidewalks and the politics of urban comfort” Material World Blog. https://materialworldblog.com/2011/11/benches-stairs-sidewalks-and-the-politics-of-urban-comfort/*
• Subramaniam, Banu, Laur Foster, Sandra Harding, Deboleena Roy, and Kim Tall Bear. 2016. "Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Technoscience," in The Handbook on Science and Technology Studies, eds. Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouché, Clark Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr, 407-433
• Marianne de Laet and Annemarie Mol. 2000 „The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology“ Social Studies of Science 30 (2), 225–63.
• Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social. Oxford University Press. 1-9 and 30-34, skim read the rest of the introduction
• Schouten, Peer. 2014. “Security as controversy: Reassembling security at Amsterdam Airport“. Security Dialogue 45 (1): 23–42.
• Komasová, Sarah. 2022. “Airport Security as Translation through Division and Movement“. Social Studies of Science, September, 52 (1) 35-52.
• Jasanoff, S., Kim, SH. 2009. “Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea.” Minerva 47 (2) 119-146.
• Bush, Vanevaar Science. 1990 [1945] – The Endless Frontier. Read Summary of the Report page 5-9, skim rest as need be.*
• Egbert, Simon, und Matthias Leese. 2021. Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work. Routledge Studies in Policing and Society. Chapter 1 and 4.
• Arora, Payal. 2016. “Bottom of the Data Pyramid: Big Data and the Global South“. International Journal of Communication 10 (19): 1681–1699.
• Aradau, Claudia, und Tobias Blanke. 2015. “The (Big) Data-Security Assemblage: Knowledge and Critique” Big Data & Society 2 (2):
• Venturini, Tommaso. 2019. “From Fake to Junk News, the Data Politics of Online Virality”. In D. Bigo, E. Isin, & E. Ruppert (Eds.), Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights.123-144
• Marres. Noortje. 2018. “Why we can’t have our facts back. Engaging Science Technology and Society 4. 423 -443.

 

 

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: Dr. Linda Monsees (17.02.2022)

The class will be largely based on plenary debates, group work and small written assignments.

The link to the online sessions of this course, for the purposes of dual/hybrid teaching, will be available here before the first class:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDVlMGMyMTYtMjBiOS00NzExLWEyNjQtZTYzZDFlY2JhZjBi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2273844aaf-f10c-4dee-aaaf-5eeb27962a5d%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223678cbcd-b1c9-4184-a59a-27f78a7f84a3%22%7d