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90493 - FILOSOFIA POLITICA LM

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Sandro Mezzadra
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        SPS/01
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Sociology and Social Work (cod. 8786)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing students with the conceptual tools required to analyze questions of effectiveness and fairness in public policies, citizenship rights, (universal) human rights as well as global justice.

Course contents

The course aims at providing students with the tools to approach the main topics at stake in contemporary debates in political theory. Each year a single question is selected. This year the course will particularly focus on such issues as race and racism, colonialism and postcolonialism. It will do so through a parallel reading of the work of the great African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois and of the Martinican psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, who played important roles in the Algerian liberation struggle.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliographical references for the exam:

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

F. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 2005.

Further bibliographical references will be suggested during the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures will be combined with seminars, with direct involvement of students and possible participation of external guests.

Assessment methods

The exam will be oral. Students attending classes are encouraged although not required to present a paper (around 4.000 words), to be discussed during the exam.

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 refer to 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