FVP:FVPAA003 Forming the Social and Politic - Course Information

FVPAA003 Forming the Social and Political Identities in Europe

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lubomír Hlavienka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lubomír Hlavienka, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Lubomír Hlavienka, Ph.D.
Faculty of Public Policies in Opava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Předměty pro zahraniční studenty (programme FVP, 1583)

Course objectives

The aim of the subject is to present the processes of forming social identities and their significance for the social and political behaviour of their participants. In the introductory part, the students will acquire familiarity with the general theory of identity, which involves describing the processes of forming social and personal identities. The second part deals with the questions of forming, maintaining and transforming of national identities as the prototype of political identities, the formation of which is closely linked to the processes of forming the modern states. The final part deals with the issues related to the protest political identities in the context of modern social movements, and to supranational social identities, which are currently linked to the phenomena of transnational migration and European integration.

Syllabus

• PART I. General Theory of Identity
  1. Exploring identity in the historical, sociological and philosophical perspective.
  2. Social construction of identity: cultural identity; organism, sexuality and identity.
  3. Political identity - using the term of identity in the context of exploring political processes.
  PART II. National Identity as a Prototype of Political Identity
  4. National identity and forming public political space; cultural and political concept of the nation.
  5. The mechanisms of forming national identities in Europe from 18th to 20th century: identifying ancestors, folklore, mass culture.
  6. National movement of small (suppressed) nations, national identity in rhetoric of political parties
  7. Multicultural society and forming regional identities (in the example of Silesia).
  8. The identity of national minorities, ethnocentrism and nationalism, the strategies of cultural assimilation.
  PART III. Protest Identities and Supranational Social Identities
  9. Forming protest identities in the context of social movements (the example of anti-globalism)
  10. Transformations of political identities in Central Europe after 1989 (post-socialistic nationalism, anti-feminism and new forms of antisemitism, and their manifestation in the rhetoric of political parties).
  11. European political identity (nationality, citizenship and social integration in new Europe).
  12. Seminar requirements include active participation, a seminar paper of the extent of 5 pages on the theme of regional identity from the area of the student´s birthplace or his or her place of his residence. The paper will be summarized in the form of oral presentation given in the seminar and it will be discussed with other students.
  

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

• Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2018, recent)
  
• Permalink: https://is.slu.cz/course/fvp/winter2018/FVPAA003