Update and Debate Seminar (DSXXI)

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The seminar is based on regular class which includes an overview of the topic by the teacher, and a full discussion of the texts associated with each class, by the students. The texts are made available on the online academic platform NONIO. The students are also required to participate in the seminars organized by CES which provide an opportunity for interaction with international experts The seminar provides an opportunity to participate in international scientific events, thus complementing the students’ acquired skills by present papers linked to their areas of research.

Learning Outcomes

The seminar was conceived as an offer of complementary themes for discussion to be added to those of the first year. Following the tradition started in the first edition of this course, the program of the third semester is structured after a tight dialogue with students, targeting two type of elements:(1) the will of retaking, completing or deepening themes that were dealt with during the first year;(2) the need to provide students specialized support to deal with new subjects that could be related to the thesis proposal that the students have to complete by the end of the academic year. This year, the seminar collaborated with the project “Entitle – European Network of Political Ecology”, funded by the Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN). The competences given to students have mainly been in the area of human rights (especially women’s rights), environmental conflicts, ecology of commons, decentralization in the African continent and social struggles.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The practical approach to human rights: legalization, implementation and mobilization at an international scale

2. Which are the “human rights” of a woman? How feminist NGOs mobilize and translate rights in Brazil

3. Feminism and anti-globalization scholars

4. Violence in lesbian couples: implication, absences and commitments

5. Violence and the environment: resources, conflicts, and resistance

6. Opposition Cultures in Portugal starting from the second post-war period

7. Portugal in transition: Revolution and Post-Revolution

8. Reflections on the notion of on-site politics

9. Policies of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: theoretical issues and practical experiences

10. Political economy and ecology of the commons

11. Are We Moving Towards a Transnational Civil Society? A Study on the Evolution of Civic Engagement at the Supranational Level

Head Lecturer(s)

Giovanni Allegretti

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
full discussion of the texts associated with each class, by the students: 100.0%

Bibliography

Arendt, Hannah (2004) “O Declínio do Estado-Nação e o Fim dos Direitos do Homem”, in As Origens do Totalitarismo. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, p. 353-401.

Armiero, Marco (2008) Seeing like a protester. Nature, power and environmental struggles. Left History, 13(1)

De Angelis (2007) M. The beginning of history. Value struggles and global capital. London: Pluto Press

Ostrom, E. (2010) Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems. American Economic Review 100 (June).

Reid, Jeremy (2012) “ The disastrous and politically debased subject of resilience”, Development Dialogue 58, april

Santos, Boaventura (2001) "Para uma Concepção Multicultural dos Direitos Humanos", Contexto Internacional, 23

Sen, Amartya (1999) “Culture and Human Rights”, in Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books, p. 226-247

Smoke, Paul (2007) Local Revenues under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries: Linking Policy Reform, Governance and Capacity, Lincoln Institute, Cambridge