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Academic Year/course: 2017/18

528 - Master's in Research and Advanced Studies in History

67930 - Violence and War


Syllabus Information

Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
67930 - Violence and War
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
528 - Master's in Research and Advanced Studies in History
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
Second semester
Subject Type:
Optional
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities" and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

  • Theoretical lectures.
  • Practical lectures.
  • Individual work.
  • Personal study.
  • Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

The course will address the following topics:

Topic 1. Violence and War in the Ancien Régime (from 5th to 18th centuries). Some Theoretical Considerations.

Topic 2. Violent Demonstrations within Society. Verbal, Symbolic, and Physical Violence. The Struggle for the Monopoly of Violence.

Topic 3. Origins of Violence. Social Mobility, Antagonisms, Rearrangements, New Political, Religious, and Economic Ideas.

Topic 4. Violence within Different Spaces. Rural and Urban Violence. Private and Public Space. Domestic Sphere.

Topic 5. War and Armed Conflicts.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

See:  http://titulaciones.unizar.es

 

ARENDT, Hannah, Sobre la violencia, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2005 [orig. ing., 1969].

BRAUD, Philippe, Violencias políticas, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2006 [orig., fr., 2004].

FORTEA, José I., Juan E. GELABERT y Tomás A. MANTECÓN (eds.), Furor et rabies. Violencia, conflicto y marginación en la Edad Moderna, Santander, Universidad de Cantabria, 2002.

IGLESIAS RODRÍGUEZ, Juan José (ed.), La violencia en la Historia. Análisis del pasado y perspectiva sobre el mundo actual, Huelva, Universidad de Huelva, 2012.

MUCHEMBLED, Robert, Una historia de la violencia. Del final de la Edad Media a la actualidad, Madrid, Paidós, 2010 [orig. fr., 2008].

PEÑA, Manuel (ed.), La vida cotidiana en el mundo hispánico (siglos XVI-XVIII), Madrid, Abada, 2012.

REGLÀ, Joan, Bandoleros, piratas y hugonotes en la Cataluña del siglo XVI, pról. de Pere Molas, Pamplona, Urgoiti, 2012 [orig. cat., 1969].

ROSS, Marc Howard, La cultura del conflicto. Las diferencias interculturales en la práctica de la violencia, Barcelona, Paidós, 1995 [orig. ing., 1993].

SOREL, Georges, Reflexiones sobre la violencia, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1976 [orig. fr., 1908].

TILLY, Charles, Violencia colectiva, Barcelona, Hacer, 2007 [orig. ing., 2003].

TOYNBEE, Arnold J., Guerra y civilización, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1976 [orig. ing., 1950].

ZIZEK, Slavoj, Sobre la violencia: seis reflexiones marginales, Barcelona, Planeta, 2013 [orig. ing., 2008].