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3.00 Credits
The State and Constituent Power in Domestic and International Politics and Law [C,B] Spring 2009. Three credits. Andrew Arato This course examines the convergence of state formation and restructuring and constitutional foundings or refoundings in the areas of nation states, regional integrations, and international and global organizations. The first half of the course deals with theories of constituent power. The second half examines cases of (1) state- or constitution-making under international occupation, (2) the process of creating regional federations, and (3) the supposed "constituionalization" process of international organizations. Thecourse meets together with the Columbia University political science course on the Theories of the State. Crosslisted with Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Proseminar in Politics, Culture and History Fall 2008. Spring 2009. One and one-half credits per semester. George Steinmetz, Eiko Ikegami This is a year long research project seminar. Students eligible for this class are those writing PhD dissertations or developing their dissertation proposals. Students will present their research projects and participate in class discussion. We will also invite faculty members and scholars from New York and the surrounding areas to present their work, or to talk about how they construct their research projects. Crosslisted as GSOC 6119. Students must register for both fall 2008 and spring 2009 terms.
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3.00 Credits
Modernity and its Discontents (A) Fall 2007. Three credits. James Miller This seminar brings new students together to explore a variety of themes and texts that epitomize some of the critical concerns of our age. Among the issues discussed are freedom and the problem of progress; the end of slavery and the implications of European world domination; new views of human nature; the idea of the avant-garde; and the moral implications of modern war and totalitarianism. Among the authors read are Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Robespierre, Condorcet, Olaudauh Equiano, Hegel, Marx, Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, Freud, Darwin, Ernst Junger, Georg Lukacs, Marinetti, Andre Breton, Tadeusz Borowski, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. Cross listed with Liberal Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Historiography and Historical Practice Fall 2008. Three credits. Oz Frankel This course focuses on US history to examine current permutations of historiographical interests, practices, and methodologies. Over the last few decades, US history has been a particularly fertile ground for rethinking the historical, although many of these topics are applicable to the study of other nations and societies. American history has been largely rewritten by a generation of scholars who experienced the 1960s and its aftermath and have viewed America's past as a field of inquiry and contest of great political urgency. Identity politics, the culture wars, and other forms of organization and debate have also endowed history with unprecedented public resonance in a culture that has been notoriously amnesiac. We explore major trends and controversies in American historiography, the multicultural moment in historical studies, the emergence of race and gender as cardinal categories of historical analysis, the enormous preoccupation with popular culture, the impact of memory studies on historical thinking, and the recurrent agonizing over American exceptionalism and consequent recent attempts to break the nation-state mold and to globalize American history. Another focus will be the intersection of analytical strategies borrowed from the social sciences and literary studies with methods and epistemologies of historicization that originated from the historical profession. This course fulfils the qualitative methods requirement for an MA in political science. Cross-listed as GHI5 6133, GSOC 6054.
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3.00 Credits
Historical Methods & Sources: Latin American History Spring 2009. Three credits. Paul Ross Historical Methods and Sources consists of two linked seminars designed to orient students to historical inquiry and equip them to undertake the writing of an MA thesis on a historical topic. This course has three specific goals: to develop fluency in several current models of historical practice; to develop practical skills for locating and interpreting primary historical sources; and to compose a proposal for an MA thesis that will be completed during the second semester of the two-semester sequence. With these goals in mind, the midterm assignment is a ten page "document collection" essay requiringstudents to collect, paraphrase, and contextualize five historical documents gathered from New York City libraries or archives. The final paper is a thesis proposal: a 15 page document sketching out the student's topic and preliminary hypothesis, as well as the student's sources and their locations. Weekly readings from the instructor's area of expertise (Latin American history) are chosen to illustrate essential genres of historical writing (e.g. cultural, social, political, diplomatic, women's history) and theoretical perspectives (e.g. Habermasian histories of public spheres, Foucaultian histories of crime and punishment). The course is not intended as a survey of the historiography of Latin America, but to provide a sampling of important trends. Please note: the written work in this class will deal with topics from students' own areas of interest, and will not necessarily correspond to the course's thematic emphasis on Latin America. This course fulfils the qualitative methods requirement for an MA in political science. This course is the first of two seminars (with a single course number) meant to be taken during a student's second year in the Historical Studies MA program. This course is also a requirement for PhD students who enter the joint doctoral program in Historical Studies without having been in a master's program at The New School for Social Research. Students register for the fall and spring sections of the course separately. The fall section of the course is a prerequisite for the spring section. Cross listed as GHIS 6133.
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3.00 Credits
Political Ethnography Spring 2009. Three credits. Timothy Pachirat What does it mean to study politics from below How does immersion of the researcher in the research world contribute to the study of power What are the promises, and perils, of social research that invites the unruly minutiae of lived experience to converse with, and contest, abstract disciplinary theories and categories In this practice-intensive seminar, we explore ethnographic and other qualitative fieldwork methods with specific attention to their potential to subvert, generate, and extend understandings of politics and power. Readings draw on exemplary political ethnographies as well as discussions of methodology and method in political science, sociology, and anthropology. Participants will have the opportunity to craft and conduct New York City based ethnographic research projects related to their primary areas of interest and will be expected to make significant weekly commitments to field research. The seminar is intended as preparation for students planning to conduct independent fieldwork for their MA or PhD research, but those interested in the epistemological, political and ethnical implications of studying power from below are also welcome. This course fulfils the MA qualitative methods requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Field Seminar in Political Theory: Paradigms of Contemporary Political Theorizing Spring 2009. Three credits. Andreas Kalyvas This field seminar in political theory is required of all students in the Theory track. It introduces students to four or five major paradigms of contemporary political theorizing: for example, (neo-Hegelian) communitarianism, (neo-Kantian) liberalism, (neo-Marxian) critical theory, (neo-Nietzschean) genealogy, and (neo-Heideggerian) deconstruction, assessing the respective strengths and weaknesses of the paradigms. In each case, we begin by examining a major text that exemplifies the paradigm. Then we consider critiques of its underlying assumptions and the most compelling appropriations of its signature concepts. Because proponents of each paradigm have commented critically on the others, the course effectively reconstructs a multi-layered conversation among many of the leading voices in contemporary political theory.
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3.00 Credits
South Asian Politcs Fall 2008. Three credits. Sanjay Ruparelia This course examines the politics of modern South Asia, an increasingly significant yet still under-studied region of the world, which addresses many classic theories of comparative politics. Taking a comparative historical approach, with a relative focus on India, we analyze the legacies of imperial rule and anti-colonial movements on nationalist imaginaries and the formation of post-colonial states; the vicissitudes of state-led and marketoriented strategies of development; and struggles to establish, consolidate, and expand democratic regimes, institutions and practices. The course assesses how these processes both transformed, and were shaped by, conflicts along lines of caste, class, gender, language and religion, as well as patterns of convergence and difference across the region.
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3.00 Credits
Field Seminar in American Politics Spring 2009. Three credits. Victoria Hattam This course surveys and critically assesses the field of American politics. How have political scientists analyzed politics in the United States How should we assess their accounts We look at major contributions by political scientists (most, but not all, from the United States) and examine the political processes they have attempted to explain. The course focuses on four main topics: political culture in the United States, how power is organized and distributed, the shape of political institutions and relations among them, and the character and extent of political participation. In each area, we focus on a central question or set of questions: In what sense and to what extent should American political culture be regarded as liberal Are observed inequalities in the distribution of power compatible with a normatively acceptable model of democracy What, if anything, produces sufficient order within and across political institutions to sustain a constitutional regime How do we understand the simultaneously low rates of voting in the United States and robust forms of civic engagement and interest group and movement activity
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A World on the Move: International Migration in the Making of Modernity Spring 2009. Three credits. Aristide Zolberg The course begins with the triggering of of religious and ethnic refugeeflows in the course of state-formation (expulsion or flight of Jews and Muslims from Spain and Portugal; of Protestants from the southern Low Countries and France; of Catholics from Britain). It then considers white settlement in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania, as well as the African slave trade as essential tools of Europe's imperial expansion. The next segment examines changing state postures toward emigration and immigration in relation to evolving demographics, modes of transportation, production and warfare in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It then goes on to consider the emergence of an international refugee regime in the wake of World War I and II. The final segment reviews contemporary trends, with the emphasis on the world-wide expansion of international migration networks, changing strategies of immigration policy and immigrant integration in contemporary nation-states, both those that consider themselves "nations of immigrants,"such as the US, Canada, Australia, and Argentina, and those that view themselves (often erroneously) as deriving from homogeneous ancestral stock, such as Germany, Britain, France, the Sandinavian countries and even previous "emigration" countries such as Ireland and Italy.
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