Dr Jennifer Jackson Preece CBG 7.05

This course is available on the MSc in Comparative Politics, MSc in Conflict Studies, MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe, MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe (LSE & Sciences Po), MSc in European and International Public Policy, MSc in European and International Public Policy (LSE and Bocconi), MSc in European and International Public Policy (LSE and Sciences Po), MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Human Rights and MSc in Human Rights and Politics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course will explore the relationship between culture and (in)security with a particular focus on the (in)security dilemmas of minorities and migrants within a world of nation-states. In so doing, our discussion will draw upon a variety of theoretical perspectives within security studies.

This course is delivered through a combination of  seminars and workshops totalling a minimum of 28 hours across Michaelmas Term. This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Michaelmas Term, and a review session will be held at the start of the Summer Term to prepare for the online assessment.

Essay (2000 words) due in MT

• Z. Bauman, Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, 2003;
• B. Buzan, O. Weaver and J. de Wilde, Security: A New Framework For Analysis,1998;
• J. Jackson-Preece, Minority Rights: Between Diversity and Community, 2005;
• W. Kymlicka, Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity, 2009;
• J Mayall, Nationalism and International Society, 1990.

Online assessment (100%) in the ST.

The online assessment for this course will be administered via Moodle.  Questions will be made available at a set date/time and students will be given a set period in the ST to complete the answers to questions and upload their responses back into Moodle.