Universität Wien

410004 SE Interdisciplinary seminar for doctoral candiates: Governance, Power and governmentality (2016S)

Theories and concepts of politics of and beyond the state

Continuous assessment of course work

This class will offer the participants the opportunity to engage with current theoretical concepts of state, power, and governance. We conceive of the class as a seminar with workshop features. This means, that students will be encouraged to discuss the themes of the sessions not only in abstract terms but to relate them to their own research projects. This format allows a combination of individual supervision and general theoretical debate.

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. 20 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

if requested by the participants, the class can be shifted to the evening


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This class will offer the participants the opportunity to engage with current theoretical concepts of state, power, and governance. We conceive of the class as a seminar with workshop features. This means, that students will be encouraged to discuss the themes of the sessions not only in abstract terms but to relate them to their own research projects. At the end of the term two sessions are reserved for a more general debate on questions related to state, power, and governance as far as they intersect with the research projects of the participants. This format allows a combination of individual supervision and general theoretical debate.

Assessment and permitted materials

active participation in the discussion, written reflexion about the relevance of governance concepts for the research and writing process

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Vorbereitungslektüre:
1-Vorstellung der Konzepte und Vorstellung der Dissertationen, keine Vorbereitungslektüre
2-Rudolf Kjellén, Der Staat als Lebensform, 1917; Michael Stolleis, Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts in Deutschland, Bd. 2, 1992.
3-Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Bd. 2, 1993, 2012.
4-Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Multi-Level Governance and European Integration, 2001.
5-Harold Laski, A Grammar of Politics, London: Routledge, 1997 (zuerst 1925).
6-Michel Foucault, Die Regierung der Lebenden, 2014; James Scott, Seeing Like A State, 1998.
7-Patrick Joyce, The State of Freedom. A Social History of the British State since 1800, 2013.
8-Erk Heyen, Verwaltete Welten. Mensch, Gemeinwesen und Amt in der Europäischen Malerei, 2013; Nikolaus Pevsner, Funktion und Form, 1998.
9-Pierre Nora, Erinmnerungsorte, 2005; Maria Bucur, Nancy M. Wingfield , Hgg., Staging the Past. The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present, 2001;
10-Jane Burbank und Frederick Cooper, Hgg., Imperien in der Weltgeschichte. Das Repertorium der Macht vom Alten Rom und China bis heute, Frankfurt: Campus, 2012 (zuerst in englischer Sprache erschienen als Empires in World History. Power and Politics of Difference, Princeton/Oxford 2010).,Antonio Gramsci , Gefängnishefte. Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Hamburg: Argument, 2002 (Kritische Gesamtausgabe in italienischer Sprache Quaderni del Carcere, Turin: Einaudi, 2007).

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