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Lehrende/r: Karin Ikas
Veranstaltungsart:
Hauptseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
06.008.0508
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Über die Senatsrichtlinie hinaus werden bei der Platzvergabe für diese Veranstaltung Studierende höherer Fachsemester bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Kursleitung: PD Dr. Karin Ikas
Inhalt:
“Human rights” generally and most basically refer to the rights and freedoms we have simply because we are human. Since the adoption of this idea in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the discourse of human rights has expanded to include not just political and civil rights but also cultural, social, economic, environmental, and, most lately, collective rights. Its apparent Western origin has also stimulated a lot of controversies, especially in formerly colonized countries and societies, and among indigenous communities. Through literature, rallies, popular, social and digital media, artists, politicians, social activists, politicians and journalists have coped with human rights and their violations while scientists have discussed the representations of human rights violations to the public via popular and digital media.
This course applies an interdisciplinary approach to critically assess a wide range of human rights discourses from the perspectives of particular historical periods and geographic regions and in relation to specific rights (violations) – among others, terrorism in the digital age and civil rights; sexuality and post-Apartheid homophobia in South Africa; cultural genocide and indigenous rights in Australia and Canada; race, ethnicity and the Mexican American border (wall) in the United States; globalization and slavery/human trafficking; and, intersectional feminism, racism and the (global) Women’s Marches. We will also look at experimental, digital and real life projects that investigate human rights violations today, for example the Human Rights Lab of the University of Minnesota. Last but not least, we consider possible legal and ethical concerns and pitfalls with using digital sources in investigations of human rights violations.
Students are strongly encouraged to add their voices to the ongoing debates and to contribute texts, photos, video clips and links to social media that are relevant to the topics being discussed and appropriate in light of academic and educational purposes.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Required ‘literary’ texts (mandatory reading):
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (London: Vintage, 2000). ISBN: 9780099284826.
Thea Astley, “Heart Is Where the Home Is” (1989) in Stories from Down Under. Viewfinder Literature (Langenscheidt-Longman, 2004). ISBN 3526507988, pp. 36-48.
Information about additional literary, popular and digital sources will be provided in the introductory session and on moodle.
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