- Docente: Sandro Mezzadra
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SPS/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Relations (cod. 8782)
Course contents
The course aims at providing a sketch of critical debates in political theory regarding the relation between global processes, migration and citizenship in the contemporary world, with particular regard to the transformations of the concept and institution of the border.
Readings/Bibliography
Suggested bibliographical reference for the exam:
S. Mezzadra - B. Neilson, Border as Method, or, the
Multiplication of Labor, Durham, NC, Duke University Press,
2013.
Further bibliographical references will be suggested during the
course. Students who are not going to attend classes can get in
touch with the professor to propose and discuss changes to the
suggested reading.
Teaching methods
Lectures will be combined with seminars, with direct involvement of students and participation of external guests.
Assessment methods
The exam will be oral and it will aim at checking the student's knowledges relating to the topics discussed during the course. It is also possible to present a working paper.
Teaching tools
The course presupposes a basic knowledge of the history of modern
and contemporary political philosophy. Students who do not have
such knowledge in their curriculum can use one of the following
texts:
S.S. Wolin, Politics and Vision. Continuity and Innovation
in Western Political Thought, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University
Press, 2006
C. Galli (ed), Manuale di storia del pensiero politico,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011
A. Pandolfi (ed), Nel pensiero politico moderno, Roma,
Manifestolibri, 2004
Links to further information
http://unibo.academia.edu/SandroMezzadra
Office hours
See the website of Sandro Mezzadra