ENGLISH PROGRAM CONTENT

Fall 2018

Course name Instructor Number

of hours

French language Various, based on student level 24 or 48

Public sphere and media analysis Pr Erik NEVEU 20

European Union Studies Dr Romain PASQUIER

Pierre WOKURI 20

Global Political Marketing Dr Matthew MOKHEFI-ASHTON 10

French Politics Pierre REMOND 10

Modern Political Radicalism Dr Catalin AVRAMESCU 10

The Rennes metropolis facing globalisation Marie-Ange ORIHUELA 10

Spring 2019

Course name Instructor Number

of hours

French language Various, based on student level 24 or 48

French Politics Pierre REMOND 10

Higher Education Policy and Development:Global

and comparative perspectives (Asia, Europe and

North America)

Dr Alessia LEFEBURE 20

Gender and China Dr Li YUN 10

The meanings of economic growth Gareth DALE 10

Global Feminism Tithi BHATTACHARYA 10

International Relations Theory Pr Guo SHUYONG 10

Telling Feminist Stories: Towards a Feminism for the

99% Laura ROBERTS 10

Public Sphere and Media Analysis

Professor Erik Neveu

From week n°2 each participant will be invited to read a scientific journal’s paper or book

chapter before our weekly meeting.

Pr Erik Neveu would suggest as two useful readings before starting this course:

- Jurgen Habermas’ book “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:

Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society » (Polity Press, 1992)

and/or - Michael Schudson’s “The Power of News” Harvard University Press, 1996.

I Media and Society

Two Grand Narratives

Weeks 1 and 2

Habermas: The Rise and fall of the Public Sphere

Habermas Book’s “ The public sphere”, its receptions and criticisms.

Weeks 3, 4 & 5

Modernity as a “Communication Society”?

The making of a modern myth

Communication Society: promised Land or Big Brother’s realm ,

A popular myth: why?

Giving historical depth to the “Communication society”

II Wanted: Sociological explanations

To make sense of modern press and media

Week 6

Press and Media with capital letters or “Journalistic Field”?

The institutionalized space of news and cultural production. Searching for relationships

between cultural goods and audiences. Mediascapes.

Week 7

Current trends and changes in political communication.

Week 8

Rethinking Internet

Week 9

Which Media power? Models, Questioning and debating the “Power” of the press and Media.

Week 10

Reception studies: Are audiences powerless cultural dopes? Is there one and only one, universal way

of “receiving” media messages?

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European Union Studies

Romain Pasquier, professor in political science

Pierre Wokuri, PhD student in political science

Contact: romain.pasquier.1@sciencespo-rennes.fr

Sixty years after its firsts steps, the European Union is at a fateful moment of its evolution (euro

crisis, popular opposition, new MEPS…). Challenges facing the EU concern much more than the EU

itself. The European Union unique institutionnal architecture led it to become a central player in

European countries politics and policies and in international affairs. Therefore, the EU deserves

attention more than ever.

During this course students will be provided with an understanding of EU polity, politics, policies and

dynamics. Course themes include: EU theories, EU institutions, EU identity, EU external policy, EU

lobbying… Course methodology encourages shared learning through structured debates and

discussions.

Program sessions

Session 1 : Introduction, September 14 (RP and PW)

Session 2: State Traditions and Democracy in Europe September 21 (RP)

Case studies: Romania, Finland, Hungary

Debate materials (suggestions):

Kenneth Dyson (2010), The State tradition in Western Europe, ECPR Press Edition.

John Loughlin (2011), The transformation of the democratic State in Europe,

http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780198296799.pdf

Session 3 : The EU and the identity September 28 (RP)

Debate question: Does the European identity exist?

Discussants :

Case studies: Sweden, Portugal, Slovenia

Debate materials (suggestions):

- Checkel J. T., Katzenstein P. (eds), 2009, European identity, Cambridge, Cambridge University

Press.

- -euractiv.com, file on European values and identity

- Risse T. (2010), A community of Europeans? Transnational identities and public spheres, Ithaca,

New York, Cornell University Press.

- Risse T. (2001), « A European Identity? Europeanization and the evolution of Nation-States

identities », in T. Risse, M. Green-Cwoles and James Caporaso, eds, Transforming Europe, New

York, Cornell University Press: 217-238.

Session 4: The EU and the democratic deficit October 5(RP)

Debate question: Is there a democratic deficit in the EU?

Discussants :

Case studies: Germany, Greece, Estonia

Further reading (sessions 1 & 2):

-Hix S., Hoyland B. (2011), The Political System of the European Union, 3rd edition, Palgrave

macmillan -Wallace H., Pollack M; Young A. (2010), Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edition, Oxford

University Press

Session 5 : Leadership in the EU October 12 (RP)

Debate question: Who leads the EU?

Discussants :

Case studies: Poland, Spain, Croatia

Debate materials (suggestions):

- Rosamond B. (2000), Theories of European integration, London, Palgrave Macmillan.

- Stone Sweet A., Sandholtz W., 2010 ‘Nofunctionalism and supranational governance’,

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=alec_stone_sweet - S. Saraugger (2010), Les théories de l’intégration européenne, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po

Session 6 : Lobbying in the EU October 19 (PW)

DDeebbaattee qquueessttiioonn:: DDoo wwee nneeeedd lloobbbbiieess iinn tthhee EEUU ppoolliiccyy mmaakkiinngg??

Discussants :

Case studies: Italy, Denmark, Latvia

Debate materials (suggestions):

-Greenwood, J. (2011), Interest representation in the European Union, 3rd

edition, Palgrave-

Macmillan.

-European Parliament (2003), Lobbying in the European Union: current rules and practices, Working

apper AFCO 104 EN Luxembourg, European Parliament, 2003

http://ec.europa.eu/civil_society/interest_groups/docs/workingdocparl.pdf

-euractiv.com, file on lobbying transparency

http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/transparency-initiative-linksdossier-188351

- European Commission, Communication “Follow-up to the Green Paper European Transparency

Initiative”, Brussels, 21.3.2007, COM(2007) 127 final

http://ec.europa.eu/civil_society/docs/com_2007_127_final_en.pdf

Session 7 : The EU and the Economic Policies November 9 (PW)

Debate question: What is the added value of the Euro zone?

Discussants :

Case studies: France, Bulgaria, Cyprus

Debate materials (suggestions):

-euractiv.com, file on Financial perspective 2007-13

- European commission, the policies, http://ec.europa.eu/policies/index_en.htm

- Fith report on economic, social and territorial cohesion, Report from the Commission, November

2010

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/reports/cohesion5/pdf/5cr_en.pdf

- Wallace H., Pollack M; Young A. (2010), Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edition,

Oxford University Press

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Discussants :

Case studies: Lithuania, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Debate materials (suggestions)

-Angel Alvarez Alberti (2011), The Myth of the EU as a global player, European and Me Magazine

n°12

http://www.europeandme.eu/12brain/627-european-myth-eu-global-player -Zornitsa Stoyanova-Yerburgh (2010), The European Union: Still a Global Player?, Carnegie Council Ethics online http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/ethics_online/0050.html#_footnoteref1

Session 9 : The EU and the migration challenge November 23 (PW)

Debate question: Do we need a common migration policy?

Discussants :

Case studies: Ireland, Slovakia, Estonia

Debate materials (suggestions):

François Bafoil « Repenser les identités régionales par les élargissements », Revue française de

science politique 1/2013 (Vol. 63) : 75-92

Mark Beeson, Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia. Politics, Security and Economic

Development, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Session 10 : The future of the European integration November 30 (RP PW)

DDeebbaattee qquueessttiioonn:: DDoo wwee nneeeedd aa ffeeddeerraall EEuurrooppee??

Discussants :

Case studies: Holand, Check Republic, Austria, Malta

Debate materials (suggestions):

-Surel Y. (2011), The European Union and the challenges of populism, Notre Europe, Policy brief

n°27,

-Vignon J. (2011), Solidarity and responsibility in the European Union, Notre Europe, Policy brief

n°26

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Global Political Marketing

Dr Matthew Mokhefi-Ashton

Module Aims:

This module seeks to help students understand the organisation, actions and impact of political

marketing at both a national and international level. This will involve looking at how political

marketing has operates, and how it has affected political behaviour, party organisation, voting patterns

and other variable worldwide. A range of issues will be examined and analysed including targeting

and positioning, branding, market research, political communication, crisis management, relationship

marketing and the marketing of conflict.

Lecture topics covered:

*Targeting and positioning;

*Political Branding;

*Market research;

*The market orientation of parties;

*Political communication;

*Political Crisis management;

*Political Relationship marketing;

*The impact of new technologies on political marketing;

*The ethics of political marketing;

*The impact of marketing on democracy;

*The political marketing of conflict;

*How political marketing impacts countries and politics at both the national and global level across

the world;

Indicative Reading:

Lees-Marshment, J (2014), Political Marketing - Principals and Applications - 3rd Edition. London.

Routledge

McPhail, T, L. (2013), Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends.

London. Wiley-Blackwells.

Ormond, R et al (2013), Political Marketing: Theory and Concepts

Straubhaar, J et al (2012), Global Media: A Critical Introduction. London. Routledge

Maarek, P (2011), Campaign Communication and Political Marketing. London. Wiley-Blackwell

McPhail, T, L (ed). (2009), Development Communication - Reframing the Role of the Media.

London. Wiley-Blackwells

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French politics 1 and 2

Mr Pierre REMOND

This course aims at presenting politics in France. It is intended to help students achieve a basic

understanding of the current political system. Our studies will focus on:

1) Reasons why France experienced five different republics;

-the historical background of the three revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848

-the origins of the Left and Right-wing parties

2) Circumstances of the birth of the Fifth Republic

3. The description of the main features of the 5th republic: the slogan "Liberté, Egalité,

Fraternité", the centralisation of power, the "republican monarchy" etc.

4) The description of the main political parties (history and platform)/case studies on opposing

ideologies and how political parties deal with issues such as taxes, the school system or

immigration policy.

5) How the Left and the Right have alternated: parties in power or minority parties since 1969.

Some case studies can be added concerning the French foreign policy giving the opportunity

for debate about the role played by France at the European and International scale. Students

will be welcome to give their opinion and point of view of their country of origin, allowing us

to confront our views.

TABLE OF CONTENT:

CHAPTER ONE: The birth of the French republic

Part one: The first republic in the context of the French Revolution of 1789; the origins of the Right

and Left in the political spectrum.

Part two: The birth of the second republic after the revolution of 1848.

Part three: The legacy of the Communes and the Third Republic.

Part four: The political life during the Fourth Republic : the origins of our current political parties.

CHAPTER TWO: The political life of the Fifth Republic

Part one: the chronology of the presidents : how Left and Right alternated

Part two: the constitution: the legacy of De Gaulle and the new balance between the main institutional

bodies.

Part three: the presentation of the Right-wing political parties

Part four: the presentation of Left-wing political parties

SUBJECTS OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

The Sans-Culottes : reality and imagination

The symbols of the French Republic, the flag, Marianne, the Marseillaise: origin etc.

The UMP, origins, platform, political agenda

The PS, since 1945 , platform, political agenda

The FN “

The PC”

The Modem “

The Green movement “

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

General text books about French History:

a) BROOMAN Josh, Revolution in France, Longman, 2001.

b) FISHMAN Sarah and others, France and its Empire since 1870, Oxford University Press, 2010.

c) POPKINS Jeremy, History of Modern France, Prentice Hall, 2006

d) WRIGHT Gordon, France in Modern Times, Rand Mc Nally, 1960

Titres de la collection: French Politics, Society and Culture Series, Editeur: PALGRAVE

MACMILLAN

1. BROUARD Sylvain, M.Appleton Andrew, G Mazur Amy, The French Fifth Republic at fifty.

2. CHALABY Jean K. The De Gaulle Presidency and the Media.

3. DRAKE Davis, Intellectuals and Politics in post-war France.

4. KNAPP Andrew, Parties and the party system in France.

5. S. LEWIS-BECK Michael, The French voters.

6. MURRAY Rainbow, Parties, genders quotas and candidates selection in France.

7. RAYMOND Gino.G., The French Communist party during the fifth republic.

8. SMITH Paul, The Senate of the fifth French republic.

9. WATERS Sarah, Social movements in France.

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Modern Political Radicalism

Instructor:

Dr. Cătălin Avramescu

Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest

and Docent, University of Helsinki

Course description:

“Radicalism” is a notoriously fuzzy concept. There are radical thinkers, radical arguments, radical

writings, radical parties, and radical regimes. This course will attempt to provide a working definition

of radicalism, while at the same time to document the development and variety of modern radical

movements. We will explore the formation of some of the most influential radical ideologies and we

will also pay attention to the institutional context.

Academic Objectives:

1. A broad knowledge of the history of radical political ideologies

2. An introduction to select theories of revolution

3. An understanding of the range of radical regimes and policies

Learning outcomes:

A. Skills in critical analysis of primary and secondary texts

B. Awareness of the cultural and historical context

C. Ability to present key ideas

Evaluation:

Written examination (1,5 hours)

Course calendar:

Week 1, session 1

Dangerous Books and Angry Men. Popular Radicalism

1st part (1 hour). Talking points:

What is radicalism? Radicalism in everyday life. Dangerous books and subversive movements.

Suggested readings:

David Horspool, The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the

Normans to the Nineties

William Andrews, Dissenting Japan. A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture,

from 1945 to Fukushima

Srdja Popovic, Blueprint for Revolution. How to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-

violent techniques to galvanize communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the

world

Ann Larabee, The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges

to a Democratic Society

2nd part (1 hour). Talking points:

Populism: Left of Right? The challenge of populism.

Suggested readings:

Jan-Werner Müller, What is Populism?

Cas Mudde, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Populism: A Very Short Introduction

Kirk A. Hawkins, Venezuela’s Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perpective

Steven Levitsky, Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism

in Comparative Perspective

Hans Vorländer, Maik Herold, Steven Schäller, PEGIDA and New Right-Wing Populism in Germany

Week 1, session 2

Theories of Revolution

1st part (1 hour). Talking points:

The modern state and the revolution. Marx and the idea of “class struggle”. The revolutionary party

invented. The Leninist revisionism. “Socialism in a single country”.

Suggested readings:

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism

Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism

Pavel Campeanu, Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society: From

Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society

2nd part (1 hour). Talking points:

The fascist idea of revolution. The cult of the leader. The fascist political organization.

Corporatism. The idea of “counter-revolution” and the rise of reactionary thought.

Suggested readings:

Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto

Zeev Sternhell, The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political

Revolution

Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and

Recovery

Michael Mann, Fascists, Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund

Burke To Sarah Palin

Week 1, session 3

Prophets and Firebrands. Political Religion and Radical Intellectuals

1st part (1 hours). Talking points:

The concept of “political religion”. Millenarism. Occultism and politics.

Suggested readings:

Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millenium

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of

Identity

Eric Kurlander, Hitler’s Monsters. A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

Philip Jenkins, The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade

2nd part (1 hour). Talking points:

Radical utilitarianism. The vanguard of the people. The “right to revolution”.

Suggested readings:

Elie Halevy, The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism

James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from

Nietzsche to Postmodernism

Week 2, session 4

Forces of Disorder. Anarchism and Terrorism

1st part (1 hour). Talking points:

What is anarchism? Origins of anarchism. Left- vs. Right-anarchism.

Suggested readings:

Colin Ward, Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction

Sergey Nechayev, The Revolutionary Catechism

Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism

Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible. A History of Anarchism Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American

Libertarian Movement

2nd part (1 hour). Talking points: The culture of political violence. Origins of terrorism. Actors and groups. The process of

radicalization. Responses to terrorism.

Suggested readings:

Michael Burleigh, Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism

Randal Law, Terrorism. A History Dan Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the

French Revolution

Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment Audrey Kurth Cronin, How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of

Terrorist Campaigns

Week 2, session 5

Race, War and Extreme Politics

1st part (1 hour). Talking points:

The rise of modern racist theories. The discours on “degeneration” and the science of “eugenics”. Justifications of genocide.

Suggested readings:

Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a

Master Race

Paul Weindling, Marius Turda, Blood And Homeland: Eugenics And Racial Nationalism in

Central And Southeast Europe, 1900-1940

Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics

in the Progressive Era

Gotz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

Alon Confino, A World Without Jews:The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to

Genocide

2nd part (1 hour). Talking points: The military and the modern state. Theories of “total war”. The culture of

Vernichtungkrieg. Weapons of mass-destruction and the modern political imagination.

Suggested readings:

Samuel Finer, The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics

David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

Isabel V. Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

Geoffrey P. Megargee, Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941

Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War

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The Rennes metropolis facing globalisation

Marie-Ange ORIHUELA

Responsable Service International & Europe de Rennes et Rennes Métropole

This program will question the place and roles of Cities in a new global paradigm using examples

from Rennes Metropolis.

- What is the legitimacy of cities to have an international voice: from the 50s and the support to

citizen associations to the 21st century and the contribution to the attractiveness of a territory.

- International solidarity: from a compassionate support to “Third World Countries” to the co-

building of a more sustainable common future.

- How European Union has changed the rules: the urban agenda and the local authorities’

networks

- Cities as main contributors to the international economic development of their areas: local and

global players.

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Higher Education Policy and Development: Global and comparative

perspectives

(Asia, Europe and North America)

Dr. Alessia Lefebure, Dean of Academic Affairs, EHESP

Course Overview: The course is designed to enable students to understand and discuss major

evolutions and trends in Higher Education policies across several regions.

Through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach the semester will be dedicated to the

review of different policy responses to development problems and challenges. In particular the

course will examine how the Higher Education choices reflect development goals. Understanding

Higher Education policies is indeed one of the ways to study State intervention. Not only students

will be able to give an historical perspective to the current policies, but they will also acquire an

overview of various national higher education systems. Beyond Europe and North America, the

course will focus on some of the major Asian countries, whose recent higher education

breakthroughs can be regarded as a trend laboratory for anticipating some of the worldwide

evolutions. Another key learning objective will be to understand current national debates about

the role and responsibility of universities: social, economic, technological, and geopolitical.

Method of Instruction: Combining lectures with student-led discussions and with the

intervention of one or two outside speakers, the current education policy debates will be related to

political, economic, social and historical context, with particular concern for issues such as

skilled migrations, human resources development, R&D, modernity, democracy. The course will

familiarize students with the major cases of Europe, the US and some Asian countries, yet

students will be encouraged to bring a comparative perspective with other regions of the world,

according to their interest and projects.

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Gender and China

Dr Li YUN

Course Syllabus

In this course, we will explore the special imaginations of nationalism, modernity and gender in

Chinese cinematic narratives. We will understand how those narratives relate the fate of woman

to the fate of the nation. Woman is represented as the symbol of a suffering China in the Leftist

Movement; a soldier of a new China in the Mao era; a rebel against a repressive China in the

Reform era; and a warrior of an expanding China in the new century. Besides, we will encounter

the changing "feminisms" in China in the last century.

Before 1949

Screening:

The Goddess (Shennü), dir. Wu Yongang, star. Ruan Lingyu, Zhang Zhizhi, Li Keng, Shanghai:

Lianhua Film, 1934.

Readings:

Shuqin Cui, "From Shadow-Play to a National Cinema," in Women Through the Lens: Gender

and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003, pp.3-

29).

David Der-wei Wang, "Impersonating China" (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews

(CLEAR) 25 (Dec., 2003), pp. 133-163).

References:

Haiping Yan, Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 (New York:

Routledge, 2006).

Jubin Hu, Projecting a Nation: Chinese National Cinema Before 1949 (Hongkong: Hongkong

University Press, 2003).

Helen Praeger Young, Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March

(Urbana and Chicago, 2001).

Yingjin Zhang, Chinese National Cinema (New York and London: Routledge, 2004).

1949-1965

Screening:

The Red Detachment of Women (Hongse Niangzijun), Dir. Xie Jin, Star. Zhu Xijuan, Wang

Xingang, Chen Qiang, Shanghai: Tianma Film, 1961.

Readings:

Shuqin Cui, "Socialist Cinema", in Women Through the Lens, pp.49-98.

Pavel Osinsky, "Modernization Interrupted? Total War, State Breakdown, and the Communist

Conquest of China (The Sociological Quarterly, 51. 4 (fall 2010), pp. 576-599).

References:

Zheng Wang, Finding women in the state: a socialist feminist revolution in the People's Republic

of China, 1949-1964 (Oakland, California University of California Press, 2017).

Zheng Wang, Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (Berkeley:

University of California Press, 1999).

1966-1976

Screening:

The White-haired Girl (Baimaonü), dir. Sang Hu, star. Shi Zhongqin, Wang Guojun, Chen

Xudong, Mao Huifang, Shanghai: Shanghai Film Studio, 1972.

Readings:

Rosemary A. Roberts, "Introduction: Gender and the Model Works, in Maoist Model Theatre:

The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution

(1966–1976) (Leiden and Bostom: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010).

Emily Honig, "Socialist Sex: The Cultural Revolution Revisited" (Modern China 29. 2 (Apr.,

2003), pp. 143-175).

References:

Rosemary A. Roberts, Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the

Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) (Leiden and Bostom: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010).

Zhong Xueping, Wang Zheng and Bai Di, eds., Some of us: Chinese women growing up in the

Mao era (New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001).

Zhouyi Wang, Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema: 1951-1979 (New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2014).

1980s-1990s

Screening:

In the Heat of the Sun (Yanguang canlan de rizi), dir. Jiang Wen, star. Ning Jing, Xia Yu. Hong

Kong: Hong Kong Dragon Film/China Film Coproduction Corporation, 1994.

Readings:

Shuqin Cui, "Screening China: National Allegories and International Receptions," in Women

Through the Lens, pp.99-126.

Gail Hershatter, "State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century" (The Journal of

Asian Studies 63.4 (Nov., 2004), pp. 991-1065).

References:

Tani E Barlow, The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Durham, NC: Duke University

Press, 2004).

Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s (Stanford:

Stanford University Press,1988).

21th century

Screening:

Hero (Yingxiong), dir. Zhang Yimou, star. Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Cheung Man Yuk,

Chen Daoming, Donnie Yen Ji-Dan, Beijing: Beijing New Picture Distribution, 2002).

Readings:

Louise Edwards, "Twenty-first century women warriors: variations on a traditional theme", in

Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley eds., Global Chinese Cinema :The culture and

politics of Hero (New York: Routledge, 2010, pp.65-77).

Sanjay Seth, "Nationalism, Modernity, and the "Woman Question" in India and China" (The

Journal of Asian Studies 72.2 (May 2013), pp. 273-297).

References:

Jiaran Zheng, New Feminism in China, Young Middle-Class Chinese Women in Shanghai

(Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd. 2016).

Xiaoping Lin, Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent

Cinema (Honolulu: 2010 University of Hawai‘i Press).

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The meanings of economic growth: Progress, improvement and GDP

in the political culture of modernity

Gareth DALE

Course description

Economic growth is a core ideology of contemporary capitalist society. Notwithstanding

a gathering chorus of critique, growth remains a dominant policy goal, globally and

across the political spectrum. What explains this? How should we understand the

hegemony of the growth paradigm, and how has it evolved historically? How did its

evolution connect with that of several other world-defining concepts: social progress,

development, sustainability, and ‘the economy’? In this short course we approach these

questions with the help of research literature from a variety of disciplines, including the

history of economic thought, sociology, political science, and political ecology. The aim

is to achieve an overview of the evolution of the growth paradigm, to examine its role as

an orienting philosophy of modernity, and to engage with controversies over growth.

The course will include discussion of ‘green growth,’ post-growth and ‘degrowth’,

asking whether these are compatible with the dominant relations, institutions and

cultures of the modern social order. It will, finally, evaluate major historical critiques of

growth: ecological, social, feminist, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial.

Indicative reading list

Allan, Bentley (2018) Scientific Cosmology and International Orders: The Balance of Power,

Improvement, and the Rise of Economic Growth, Cambridge University Press.

Appleby, Joyce (1978) Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England,

Princeton University Press.

Appleby, Joyce (2011) The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, Norton.

Bataille, George (1988 [1967]) The Accursed Share, Zone Books.

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Global Feminism(S)

Tithi BHATTACHARYA

Feminism has always been a battlefield of ideas and practices. There is not one single feminism,

but rather a multiplicity of theoretical and political currents. These feminisms express different

and often competing ideas, the contradictory interests and perspectives of different classes, and

diverging approaches to our world and our societies. This course will explore and track some of

the key currents of global feminism such as Liberal feminism, Black feminism and Marxist

feminism.

We will look at these different tendencies in their historical context marking their moments of

arrival and reasons of success. For instance, we will study how despite neoliberal

opposition, Black feminists have continued to produce insightful analyses of the intersection of

class exploitation, racism, and gender oppression or how newer "materialist” queer theories have

disclosed important links between capitalism and the oppressive reification of sexual identities.

A key feature of the course will be its student centric approach. Modules will be designed to

incorporate student presentations and digital learning.

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International Relations Theory

Professor Guo SHUYONG

Dean of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Shanghai International Studies

University

This course mainly introduces the basic concepts of international relations, the schools of western

international relations such as neo-realism, neoliberalism and constructivism, the development

history of China's international relations theory, and Xi Jinping's new thinking on international

relations.

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Telling Feminist Stories: Toward a Feminism for the 99%

Dr Laura Roberts, Philosophy and Gender Studies,

The University of Queensland, Australia

This course introduces students to important historical and contemporary moments of

feminist activism, politics and philosophy and considers why feminist ways of knowing,

being and doing still matter for women and men today in local and global contexts.

Acutely aware of the failures of liberal or Lean-In feminism(s) that fail to take structural

oppression seriously this course is framed around the notion of a Feminism for the 99%

which, as Angela Davis and others describe, is “a new international feminist

movement with an expanded agenda

— at once anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist and anti-neoliberal”. The notion

of a Feminism for the 99% was coined by Angela Davis and other scholar-activists in

early 2017 in an analysis of the spontaneous Women’s Marches that occurred around the

globe after the inauguration of Donald Trump in January of the same year. This course is

thus an attempt to understand what a Feminism for the 99% might look like in theory

and practice in our contemporary contexts and to this end we explore particular feminist

philosophers and types of feminist politics that place issues of sexuality, race, class and

the on-going effects of colonialism as central to our lived experiences and thus

inseparable from our experiences of sex/gender.

In the first class we begin the course by looking back, critically, at the perceived history

of western feminism(s) using a particular lens that disrupts the linear narrative of the

‘waves’ of feminist history. We do this so we can begin to situate the important

historical moments of feminist politics and theory in dialogue with one another rather

than view these as dislocated moments on a linear (neo-liberal) timeline. Thinking about

how we tell our stories is a theme that runs throughout the course and we return to

conceptions of feminist and queer time and temporality later in the course. In the second

class we consider the philosophical and political significance of Simone de Beauvoir’s

work The Second Sex (first published in 1949) before moving to a discussion of the

cultural politics of the 1960s and the philosophical and political aftermath of the 1960s,

especially in France. A particularly important branch of feminist politics and thought

emerges out of these contexts and in the third class we discuss the work of philosopher

Luce Irigaray and the question of sexual difference. The exploration of both Beauvoir

and Irigaray’s work will make links between these two important French thinkers as

well as look at how their work is still relevant today, locally and globally, in ways that

are not often recognised. For example, we explore how Luce Irigaray’s work is taken up

by Indigenous Australian scholar Irene Watson in her analysis of colonialism in

Australia. In the fourth class we move on to explore postcolonial feminisms looking at

the work of Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, two Indian born feminist scholars

who have produced ground breaking critiques of western academic feminism. In the

Academic year 2018-2019

continued discussion of postcolonial feminisms in the fifth class we also consider the work

of Indigenous Australian scholars Aileen Moreton-Robinson and Jackie Huggins who both

produce important contributions to the debates around feminism, race, indigeneity and

colonialism in the Australian context. We then move on in the sixth class to explore US

scholar Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and Jack-Judith Halberstam’s

notions of female masculinity before moving in the seventh class to engage with the work

of Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa’s work. The course then explores feminist ecologies

in the eighth class and specifically looks at Ecofeminism(s) in the Australian contexts. In

the ninth class we engage philosophically with conceptions of racialised and queer time.

In the final tenth class we turn to explore contemporary urban politics examining

municipalist movements emerging in cities all over Europe with a particular focus on

Barcelona and the feminist citizen platform currently running the city.