Teaching Responsibility

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Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

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Seminar

Module Offerings

6107IRP-JAN-MTP

Aims

To analyse how the body is understood in international relations theory To recognise how understandings, recognitions, and erasures of the body impact upon policy making and decisions. To understand the body as site of power, domination, marginalisation, and erasure.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Topics discussed could include: • Theorising the body in international relations • Agamaben’s theory of necropolitics • Foucault’s theory of biopolitics • Feminist theorisations of the body (Butler, Kristeva) • Contagion, pandemics, and panic: international (in)securities • Migration, borders, and permeability: leaky bodies of the state • The weaponization of the body in conflict • Bodies of pain: The brutalisation of the body in conflict • Race, Orientalism, and the War on Terror • Vulnerability and the Responsibility to Protect • Signal failures and queer bodies • Sex and Death in militarisation
Additional Information:This module explores the body as a site of international relations through critical theoretical engagement, with particular emphasis on feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories of the body. It questions the work that bodies are made to do politically through analyses of war, security, public health, migration, terrorism, and genocide. It contributes directly to research-led teaching initiatives as the module drawn from the expertise of the module leader and an ongoing book project. It will be important for students particularly engaged with international and non-governmental organisation that are responsible for policy recommendations and initiatives, in that it will allow them to critically assess the inclusivity of their work.

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