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 GRADE for the COURSE |
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| Week 1. January 18. Introduction: What and why is Violence? |
 Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, 2001, Ch.1. |
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Fanon F. The Wretched of the Earth. Ch.On Violence |
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Anthropology of Violence Syllabus Spring 2018 |
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GRADES for the MIDTERM TEST |
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| Week 2. January 25. Conceptualization of Violence through History |
Foucault, M, 1979 Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison (Part III, Chapter 1: Docile Bodies) Alan Sheridan, trans. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 135-169. |
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 Film “the Dark Ages”, Documentary, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvfiQkC49s. |
Watching film and discussions |
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| Week 3. February 1. International and Local Laws and Norms against Violence |
Declaration of Human Rights |
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Human Rights and Violence in Contemporary Context |
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| Week 4. February 8. Self-directed Violence and Socio-cultural Factors |
Foucault, 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Part IV, the carceral, Chapter 4). |
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Schmidt, B. The interpretation of violent worldviews. Cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, pp. 76-94. |
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| Week 5. February 15. Violence, Colonialism and Empire |
Edmonds P., and Johnston A. Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies |
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‘Crime’, poverty, political corruption and conflict in apartheid and post apartheid South Africa: The implications on economic development |
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| Week 6. February 22. Migration, Borders and Diasporas |
Thomas, D. The violence of Diaspora |
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Schwandner-Siever S. The enactment of ‘tradition’ Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis |
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| Week 7. March 1. Looking at Mahatma Gandhi’ Non-violence |
Mahatma Gandhi’s speech about violence. http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil2.htm. |
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Spinner-Halev, J. 2005 Hinduism, Christianity, and Liberal Religious Toleration in Political Theory, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 28-57. |
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| Week 8. March 15. Gender, Sexuality and Violence |
Declich, F. When silence makes history Gender and memories of war violence from Somalia in Anthropology of Violence And Conflict, ch.8. |
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Declich, F. When silence makes history Gender and memories of war violence from Somalia in Anthropology of Violence And Conflict, ch.8. |
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Patriarchal terrorism an violence against women |
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| Week 9. March 22. Everyday life and Interpersonal Violence |
Abbink, J. Violence and culture Anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict book, pp. 123-139. |
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| Week 10. March 29. Religion and Ritual Violence |
Cavanaugh, W. Does Religion Cause Violence? |
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Kloos, P.A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, Ch.9. |
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Kloos, P.A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, Ch.9. |
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| Week 11.April 5. Environmental Violence |
Vila M., 2003. Environmental violence, liberalism, and responsibility |
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| Week 12. April 12. Violence against Culture |
The art property in army conflicts |
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Manas Epic, Introduction |
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| Week 13. April 19. Faces of Political Violence: Holocaust and Genocide |
Geographic Aspects of Genocide: A Comparison of Bosnia and Rwanda |
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Jewish Ethics after the Holocaust |
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| Week 14. April 26. Roads to Peace and Conflict Resolution |
Collins,K 2003 The Political Role of Clans in Central Asia in Comparative Politics, Vol. 35, No. 2 pp. 171-190. |
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Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Islam: Toward Reconciliation and Complementarity between Western and Muslim Approaches |
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