Politics 190W - Living in the Aftermath of Evil

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University of California-Santa Cruz

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Draws on a variety of sources to understand metaphors of war and peace as potentially appropriate attitudes toward evil and as potentially rational compromises with evil; investigates respects in which constitutional regimes of post-traumatic societies can be understood as "peace programs" that preserve and transcend the identities of the victims and perpetrators of past atrocities while creating a new identity based on their common survivorship; explores the constraints placed on "nation in recovery" by the public commitment to create an official version of a past that must be remembered so that it will not be repeated. Prerequisite(s): two of the following: course 105A, 105B, 105C, 106, and 107. Enrollment restricted to senior politics and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 20. R. Meister

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1.25

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ucsc.edu/

Phone Number:

(831) 459-0111

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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