COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobility, Borders and Technology | PS 503 | Fall | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 7.5 |
| Academic Unit: | Political Science and Public Administration |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | Worldwide, the combination of finance capitalism and digital/computational technologies have led to the acceleration of speed and intensification of connections, but also proliferation of enclosure and bordering techniques as means to govern mobility. The course is designed with the aim of understanding the governance of borders and human mobility – that is, ways in which lines, boundaries, and filters are drawn between geographical entities, populations, identities and ultimately, people – establishing hierarchical and moral categories, authorizing certain modes of actions and violence. Drawing on insights from diverse range of scholarship across the social sciences, this highly interdisciplinary course design will address the general themes such as state, sovereignty, territory, cartography, citizenship, resistance etc. through reviewing a range of contemporary issues in the 21st century – such as mobility, everyday experiences of security, borders and bordering practices, technology and surveillance. |
| Course Contents: | Globalization; Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Citizenship; Space, Sovereignty and Territory; Knowledge and Power in Cartography; Colonialism, Carceral Spaces as State of Exception; Mobility, Body and Freedom; Theorizing Borders; Containment and Deportation; Extraterritorial Jurisdiction; Sea/Ocean: Practice of Rescue; Surveillance: Biometrics, Algorithm and Big Data; Solidarity, Autonomy and Resistance |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Lecture, class discussion and visual materials |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Setting the Scene | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 2 | Debating Globalization and the Nation State | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 3 | Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Citizenship | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 4 | Space, Sovereignty and Territory | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 5 | Knowledge and Power in Cartography | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 6 | Distribution of the Planet: (Settler) Colonialism | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 7 | Carceral Spaces as State of Exception | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 8 | Mobility, Body and Freedom | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 9 | Theorizing Borders I | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 10 | Theorizing Borders II: Containment and Deportation | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 11 | Theorizing Borers III: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 12 | Sea/Ocean: Practice and Rescue | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 13 | Surveillance: Biometrics, Algorithm and Big Data | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
| 14 | Solidarity, Autonomy and Resistance | Reading/watching the relevant materials before lecture |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Held, D. and McGrew, A. (2002). The Great Globalization Debate: An Introduction. In The Global Transformations Reader. Edited by David Held and Anthony McGrew. Malden: Polity, 1-48. Ong, A. (2006). Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism. Neoliberalism as Exception. Duke University Press: 1-27. Jones, M. et al. (2004). Power, Space and ‘Political Geography’. An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics. Jones, M. et al. eds. London and New York: Routledge: 1-19. Harley, B. (1989). Deconstructing the Map. In: Cartographica 26 (2). 1-20. Said, E. (1979). Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental. Orientalism. Vintage Books: New York:49-73. Reid‐Henry, S. 2007. Exceptional Sovereignty? Guantánamo Bay and the Re‐Colonial Present. Antipode 39(4): 627-648. Torpey, J. (2000) The invention of the passport. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kotef, H. (2015). Introduction. Movement and Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Duke University Press: Durham and London: 1-27. Rumford, C. (2006). Theorizing Borders. European Journal of Social Theory 9(2): 155–169. Mountz, A., Kate C., R. Tina C., and Loyd, J.M. (2012). Conceptualizing detention Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion. Progress in Human Geography, 37(4): 522-541. Bialasiewicz, L. (2012). Off-shoring and out-sourcing the borders of Europe: Libya and EU border work in the Mediterranean. Geopolitics, 17(4):843-866. Heller, C. & Pezzani, L. (2017). Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier. In N. De Genova, The Borders of Europe, Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. Duke University Press. Broeders, D. (2007), “The new digital borders of Europe: EU databases and the surveillance of irregular migrants” International Sociology 22 71-92. Pötzsch, H. (2015). The Emergence of iBorder: Bordering Bodies, Networks, and Machines. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(1), 101–118. Stierl, M., Rygiel, K., and Ataç, I.(2016). ‘The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins’, Citizenship Studies, 20:5, 527-544. Nyers, P. (2015). “Migrant Citizenships and Autonomous Mobilities.” Migration, Mobility, & Displacement 1 (1). |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| Weekly assigned visual materials |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 14 | 15 |
| Project | 1 | 35 |
| Homework Assignments | 4 | 40 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Total: | 20 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Project | 1 | 37.5 | 37.5 |
| Homework Assigments | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 13 | 4 | 52 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 187.5 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 |
| LO1 | |||||||||||
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| LO3 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High