B2852 - IDENTITA', CULTURE E CONFLITTI

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Paolo Terenzi
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SPS/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs (cod. 9247)

Course contents

Social theory, identity and culture. Ethnic conflicts, cultural conflicts, religious conflicts. 

Readings/Bibliography

L. Sciolla, Cultura e identità, in Id., Sociologia dei processi culturali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.

C. Reus-Smit, Culture, in Id., International Relations. A very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2020, cap. 7.

M. Castells, Il potere delle identità, Egea, Milano, 2014 (cap. 1).

V. Cotesta, Sociologia dei conflitti etnici, Laterza, Roma-Bari (parte prima, parte seconda).

M. Graziano, Guerra santa e santa alleanza, Religioni e disordine internazionale nel XXI secolo, il Mulino, Bologna.

 

Teaching methods

The course is organized in lectures and seminars

Assessment methods

Two written exams (5 questions, 60 min)

Students not attending classes:

Written exam (12 question, 100 min) + oral exam

Teaching tools

Virtuale 

MS Teams

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Terenzi