Universität Wien

240030 VS Militarizing Anthropology (3.3.2) (2018W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Participation at first session is obligatory!
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 04.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Thursday 29.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Friday 30.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 10.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 12.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Thursday 13.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Friday 14.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Course goals/ Lehrziel:
This course will focus on the collaboration of social scientists in general and anthropologists in particular with the military, security and intelligence organizations. Covering the period from colonial empires to the current global war on terror the use of anthropological expertise (e.g. embedded anthropologists in the US army´s Humain Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan) will be studied. In addition, critical stances on 'militarizing anthropology' by individual anthropologists (e.g. Price, Gonzales) and anthropological associations (AAA, Network of Concerned Anthropologists) will be deal

methodological approach/ Lehrinhalt und Methode:
This course will use different approaches: inputs by the lecturer, collective readings and discussions of key texts and other materials (e.g. videos) in class, short presentation of students on specific topics.

English will be used as means of communication

Assessment and permitted materials

Information on course requirements/ Leistungsnachweis, Prüfungsmodalitäten:
* active participation in course discussions, presentations etc.
* attendance in 80% of all courses (up to 3 units à 2 hours may be missed, that means you are allowed to not attend part of one of the presentation sessions)
* circulation of handout (1 2 pages) of own presentation to all course participants including instructor; handout must be sent 48 hours before the respective presentation (schedule of presentations will be sent out in due time by instructor)
* submission of written text (approx. 2500 words without bibliography (that is approx.12 pages in 12 fonds, one spaced), in English or German must be submitted by February 28th 2019 at the latest, Word count has to be written on front page of paper.
no extension of deadline possible

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Information on Grading:
Participation in class room discussions 10 %
On time circulation of handout 10 %
Paper Presentation 30 %
Final paper 50 %
grades:
Sehr gut 100 % to 91 % of all points
Gut 90 % to 76 % of all points
Befriedigend 75 % to 61 % of all points
Genügend 60 % to 51 % of all points
Nicht genügend 50 % and less of all points

Examination topics

Presentations, written papers, engagement in discussions

Reading list

Empfehlungen des / der Vortragenden
References/ Literature:
Obligatory reading cf. moodle platform.
Additional key publications are available in the 'Handbibliothek', further list of references is provided on moodle platform

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39