Zusätzliche Lehrveranstaltung im Sommersemester 2012

Im Sommersemester 2012 werden zwei Gastdozenten das Fach Politikwissenschaft besuchen. Michael Baum & Christopher Larkosh (beide Professoren an der University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) werden ein Seminar zum Thema National and Transnational Citizenships anbieten. 

Das Seminar findet an folgenden Termin in der Zeit vom 21.-24.5.2012 sowie vom 4.6 bis zum 21.6.2012 statt: Mo 18-20, Di 18-20, Do 14-16.

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Im Seminar ist ein Scheinerwerb für Studierende in den auslaufenden Magister sowie Lehramtsstudiengängen möglich. Natürlich ist die Teilnahme auch für interessierte Studierende anderer Studiengängen möglich.

Weitere Fragen zum Seminar beantwortet Ihnen Herr Prof. Dr. Thaa.

This course will look at the development of distinct national citizenship regimes and their overlap with new transnational projects of citizenship, perhaps best exemplified by the ongoing process of EU integration.

Temporally, the course will focus on the post-WWII period to the present day. It will examine how scholars have classified distinct models of national citizenship, how they arose and whether the development of the EU project is substantively eroding the significance of these ideal types, or possibly reinforcing them, or both? The current critical juncture in the European transnational model is said to threaten the very sovereignty of nations: be it in the Eurozone debt crisis; the transnationalization of anti-austerity and globalization protest movements in Madrid, Athens, Lisbon and elsewhere; or relations between both traditional 'core' and 'peripheral' members as stakeholders in the project of European integration.

The course will also address alternative models of transnationality and belonging, as manifested through migration, cross-border travel and education (Erasmus, mass tourism, et al.), and the ever-intensifying exchange and accessibility of cultural, and mass media materials (internet TV and social networks, etc.). On the micro level, localized interventions in this discussion include movements for greater and cultural and linguistic autonomy: whether in the form of the continuing challenges of multiculturalism, regional/national independence movements, or the politics of religious, ethnic and gender minorities.

The course will begin with political science accounts of distinctive national models of immigrant integration and refugee resettlement policies, including immigrant and refugee civic engagement, political incorporation, and citizen-making. It will conclude with a reading of literary texts and viewing of films and other visual media that encourage a theoretical and philosophical contemplation of the cultural challenges of transnational citizenship models like that of the EU, especially in a period of full-scale globalization that extends beyond the European continent to engage an ever more extensive set of languages, cultures and identity positions.

Instructors: Profs. Michael Baum & Christopher Larkosh, UMass-Dartmouth