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| Semester | spring semester 2024 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Lisa Marie Borrelli (lisamarie.borrelli@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The course will give students a critical inside into how biopolitics and biopower are two highly relevant concepts to examine how state practices influence and affect the individual and different populations, especially non-citizens. In the seminar we will discuss how biopolitics administer life and a locality's populations and how they are able to create discriminating, classed, gendered, racialized differentiation between populations. Based on the classical work by Foucault (2008) on the birth of biopolitics, the seminar will critically discuss literature, and expand notions of biopolitics through new emerging concepts, e.g., of necro-politics, the state of exception (Agamben 2005) and more. As one key aspect, the body as such will be examined as site of biopolitical power, including gendered aspects and intersectionality. We will dive deeper into questions on how biopolitics steer lives of migrant individuals, connecting back to works on biopolitics outside the realm of migration literature and discuss how individuals are contained, detained and confined. |
| Learning objectives | The seminar will equip students with conceptual and empirical knowledge on the role of biopolitical governance and how it affects not only the general functioning of states, and overall regimes, including non-state actors, but also the individual (body). They will gain knowledge on theoretical and empirical examples, understand complex relations between biopolitics and migration governance and will be able to make use of these aspects in an own analysis. Students will learn to make use of a concept used in one sphere or context and apply it onto the context of migration governance. This seminar will further equip students with a critical perspective and the ability to grasp complex concepts and theoretical works. |
| Bibliography | Some literature that will be used: Aradau, Claudia, and Martina Tazzioli. 2020. ‘Biopolitics Multiple: Migration, Extraction, Subtraction’. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 48 (2): 198–220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829819889139. Baar, Huub van. 2017. ‘Evictability and the Biopolitical Bordering of Europe’. Antipode 49 (1): 212–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12260. Foucault, Michel. 1978. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. New York: Pantheon Books. ———. 2003. ‘Society Must Be Defended’. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76. Edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana. Translated by David Macey. 1st ed. New York: Picador. ———. 2004. The Birth of Biopolitics - Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Edited by Graham Burchell and Arnold Davidson. Palgrave Macmillan UK. //www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781403986559. Johansen, Nicolay B. 2013. ‘Governing the Funnel of Expulsion: Agamben, the Dynamics of Force, and Minimalist Biopolitics’. In The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion, edited by Katja Franko Aas and Mary Bosworth. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669394.001.0001/acprof-9780199669394-chapter-15. Lemke, Thomas, and Eric Frederick Trump. 2011. Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction. NYU Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg0rd. Maguire, Mark. 2014. ‘Counter-Terrorism in European Airports’. In The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-Terrorism and Border Control, edited by Mark Maguire, Catarina Frois, and Nils Zurawski, 188–133. London: Pluto Press. Rouse, Carolyn M. 2021. ‘Necropolitics versus Biopolitics: Spatialization, White Privilege, and Visibility during a Pandemic’. Cultural Anthropology 36 (3): 360–67. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca36.3.03. |
| Admission requirements | Das Grundstudium muss abgeschlossen sein. Die Teilnehmenden werden nach Fachrichtung, Studiengang und in der Reihenfolge ihrer Anmeldung auf die Liste gesetzt. Wer im Rahmen von Auslandaufenthalten und von Austauschprogrammen in Basel studiert wird unabhängig vom Listenplatz immer aufgenommen. |
| Course application | Direkte Anmeldung bei lisamarie.borrelli@unibas.ch; Belegen in MoNA. |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Tuesday | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 05.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 12.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 19.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 26.03.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 02.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 09.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 16.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 23.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, Link wird mitgeteilt. |
| Tuesday 30.04.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 07.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 14.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 21.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Tuesday 28.05.2024 | 10.15-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum 207 |
| Modules |
Modul: Research Lab Kulturanthropologie (Master's degree subject: Cultural Anthropology) Modul: Theorien und Methodologien der Kulturanthropologie (Master's degree subject: Cultural Anthropology) Module: Migration, Mobility and Transnationalism (Master's degree program: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources) Module: The Urban across Disciplines (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Arbeit, Migration und Gesellschaft (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme. Es werden eine Präsentation, sowie ein kurzes Essay als Reflexion des Seminarinhaltes erwartet. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie |