Participation (5op)

Osaamistavoitteet

Course title: Fracturing movement, migration and community – Towards an international political sociology of life in motion
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able1. to discern conceptions of movement as social and political force2. to recognize ways of participation in fracturing worlds through movement 3. to construe transversal conceptions of migration and changing forms and conditions of mobile peoples4. to reflect on the manifestation and results of movement fracturing community

Sisältö

The course explores what it would mean to understand life and matter as movement rather than as community or order. It asks how the primacy of movement changes our understanding of social and political relations and participation in the making of social and political worlds. Giving movement primacy challenges conceptions of the social and political in terms of community, borders, bounded spaces, and the people.
The course works with a close reading of texts that introduce problematisations of movement. The seminars are concept driven but will be applied to the study of migration, touching on questions of community, contestations and struggles, governmental techniques, and borders. Throughout students are also asked to think through what implications prioritising movement would have for their own work.

Esitietovaatimukset

The course is organised for doctoral candidates at the University of Lapland. The course is part of the doctoral programme Communities and changing work, but doctoral candidates from other programmes are also welcome to the course.

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

1-5

Oppimateriaalit

Lisätietoja kirjallisuudesta ja muusta materiaalista
To be read before the session:
Seminar 1: Towards the primacy of movement: no borders – migration as pathways and meshworkStudents introduce their own projects briefly for the purpose of integrating them into the discussionPart 1: Philosophy: ontologies of motionNail, Thomas. 2018. "The ontology of motion." Qui Parle 27 (1):47-76.Part 2: Sociology/Anthropology: lines and pathwaysIngold, Tim. 2011. Being alive. Essays on movement, knowledge and description. London: Routledge: chapter 12 Against space.
Seminar 2: Politics of fracturing movement: governance through movement and counter-mapping migrationPart a: Movement and governance: motion, circulation, movementReading: Aradau, Claudia. 2016. "Political grammars of mobility, security and subjectivity." Mobilities 11 (4):564-74.Part b: Counter-mapping migrationReading: Tazzioli, Martina. 2014. Spaces of governmentality. Autonomous migration and the Arab uprisings. London: Rowman & Littlefield. Chapter 6: Unspeakable maps.
Seminar 3: Towards fracturing political community: mobile peoples and multiplicitiesPart 1: Mobile peoplesIsin, Engin. 2018. "Mobile peoples: transversal configurations." Social Inclusion 6 (1):115-23.Part 2: Migrants and the formation of collective political subjects Tazzioli, Martina. 2017. "The government of migrant mobs: Temporary divisible multiplicities in border zones." European Journal of Social Theory 20 (4):473-90.

Lisätiedot

Lisätiedot
Associate Professor Janne Autto and the ULapland Graduate School

Toteutustavat

9 hours of seminar

Suoritustavat

Participation in the seminar; reading of the seminar texts before each session. Completion of a learning diary after the course.