Universität Wien

070258 SE Research Seminar Global History and Global Studies - Punitive configurations (2024S)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 04.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 07.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 11.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 14.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 18.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 21.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 08.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 11.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 15.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 18.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 22.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 25.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 29.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 02.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 06.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 13.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 16.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 23.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 27.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 03.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 06.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 10.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 13.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 17.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 20.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Monday 24.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Thursday 27.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

How does society punish? How do punitive practices shape up social processes? And what does the study of the relationships between punishment and society tell us about the fabric of history and historical change?
In its quest to answer these perpetual questions, the SE Research Seminar foregrounds the dialectic between the wide range of available punitive options and the logic of their selective deployment vis-a-vis specific individuals, groups and territories.

Within this frame, the concept „punitive configurations“ is proposed as a way to embrace the whole of the practices, norms, networks and institutions that participate in the definition, construction and repression of „deviant“ behaviour in specific temporal and spatial contexts and/or in relation to specific social processes.

The focus on punitive configurations moves away from the main theories of the relations between punishment and society that have been proposed during the 20th century (Rusche and Kirkhheimer; Melossi and Pavarini; Foucault). Those theories were based on the exclusive analysis of the relationship between the prison and the capitalist society. Conversely, in the SE Research Seminar the focus lies on the criminal justice system as well as military and religious justice and administrative punishment; beyond the State apparatuses, the course addresses the chastisements meted out by slaveholders and pater familias, and the way yet broader sections of society became imbricated in punitive processes.
Banishment, incarceration, penal transportation, capital punishment, flogging and public shaming are some of the punitive forms dealt with. Looking at the interactions among these multiple punitive practices and regimes, the course addresses also the way punitive configurations shift across time.

The SE Research Seminar is centred around four activities:
1. Lectures and guest lectures on the working of punitive configurations in distinct periods (early modern, modern and contemporary) and regions, and in relation to various social processes.
2. Reading and discussing scholarly publications, with the view to analyzing how the scholars have addressed punitive practices, processes and configurations.
3. Presentation and analysis of archival sources.
4. Writing a paper about punitive configurations in specific geographical and temporal contexts.

The course includes two sessions per week. The first session normally features one lecture or guest lecture. The second session includes group discussion on the assigned readings and the archival sources, and group work around the projected papers.

Assessment and permitted materials

Besides the work on the assigned readings and the active participation, the evaluation will be based on a research paper (approx. 5,000-6,000 words).

The paper will be developed through several drafts across the whole course, through group work and under the supervision of the lecturer. The structure of the research paper will be discussed in the class.
A "students' conference" will be held in the final sessions of the course, during which the students, will present and discuss their papers in thematic panels.

The assessment of the paper will take into consideration: the process of designing the paper; the oral presentation; and the final paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum Requirements and Assessment Standards
• Reading the assigned texts (compulsory) – 30%
• Active participation in classroom discussions – 30%
• Design, oral presentation and written text of the paper – 40%

Examination topics

The students will develop the following skills:
• Expanding their knowledge on historical and present punitive configurations and
familiarize with empirical research and theoretical analysis on the history of
punishment.
• Improving their skills in the reading and analysis of scholarly texts;
• Operationalizing the methodological and theoretical inputs into an empirical
research (paper).
• Through the development of the paper, the students will:
* Further elaborate the acquired knowledge.
* Increase their self-reflexivity about the procedure of scholarly research.
* Improve their skills in group work, including their ability to: present their ideas and
arguments in public; discussing the structure of a research project.

Reading list

The readings will be uploaded in the moodle page of the course. They range from theoretical to research texts, and cover several geographical contexts during the early modern and modern periods. The texts are closely connected to the theme(s) addressed in the corresponding session.

Association in the course directory

Schwerpunkt Neuzeit, Globalgeschichte

MA Globalgeschichte und Global Studies: PM4 - Forschungsseminar Globalgeschichte oder Global Studies (10 ECTS)
MA Geschichte: PM2 / PM3 - Forschungsseminar (10 ECTS)

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