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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Teresa Pullano (teresa.pullano@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Michel Foucault's work, his approach to philosophy, but also history, politics and sociology, is by now a transversal research approach adopted by the social sciences and the humanities. From gender studies, to citizenship studies, to political science and sociology, Foucault's concepts and methods of inquiry allowed for a renewal of historical and contemporary studies of political and social phenomena. More precisely, this lecture focuses on the key concepts of governmentality, biopolitics, truth-telling or parrhésia, the hermeneutics of the subject and Foucault's genealogical method. Through the paradigm of governmentality, Foucault elaborates the idea that contemporary power is a networked and capillar form of power that expresses itself through technologies and practices of construction of the self, such as economics and self-management (the figure of the entrepreneur), the management of individual and collective health and sexualities, the control of our bodies. Modern politics regulates the forms of life, of reproduction and of death. Labour, in its material dimension, is key to contemporary neoliberal governmentalities. In this lecture, we will understand Foucault's paradigm of governmentally and we will see how it is applied in contemporary global studies of politcs, of sociology and of citizenship. We will read and explain essential parts of Foucault's second phase of his work, the, by now, well-known and acclaimed Lectures at the Collège de France. |
| Lernziele | The objectives of the course are: I. Undertsanding in depth Foucault's key concepts of: 1. Governmentality 2. Biopolitics 3. Political Subjectivity and the Hermeneutics of the Self 4. Parrhésia or Truth-Telling 5. Genealogy II. Learning how to use Foucault's concepts in contemporary analysis of Global Studies, European Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Gender Studies. III. Gaining an overview of the field of Governmentality Studies in contemporary Social and Political Studies. |
| Literatur | - Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008. - Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2009. - Michel Foucault, The Government of Self and Others, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2010. - Michel Foucault, The Courage of Truth, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1984, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2011. |
| Weblink | Europainstitut Basel |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | This is a seminar for MA students. BA students in their final year of studies can also attend. The assessment will be graded on a scale from 1.0 to 6.0. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
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| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Themenfeld: Herrschaft, Normativität und symbolische Ordnung (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul Vertiefung Themenfeld: Herrschaft, Normativität und symbolische Ordnung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Basics: Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften M.A. (Master Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Theorien der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Bachelorstudium - Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | A final written exam in class will be the assessment form. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,5 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Universität Basel |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Europainstitut |