Political Movements. Normally Level 4 Politics modules

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1 MODULE SPECIFICATION TEMPLATE MODULE DETAILS Module title Political Movements Module code SS534 Credit value 20 Level Mark the box to the right of the appropriate level with an X Entry criteria for registration on this module Normally level 4 politics modules or equivalent Co-requisite modules Specify in terms of module codes or equivalent Module delivery Level 4 Level 5 X Level 6 Level 7 Level 8 Level 0 (for modules at foundation level) Normally Level 4 Politics modules Normally Level 4 Social Science modules for BA(Hons) Social Science Mode of delivery Taught X Distance Placement Online Other Pattern of delivery Weekly X Block Other When module is delivered Semester 1 Semester 2 X Throughout year Other Brief description of module content Overview (max 80 words) Module team/ author/ coordinator(s) School Site/ campus where delivered The module is designed to allow students to explore the role of political movements in different socio-political and cultural contexts. The module starts by analysing social movements and how they effect change in society. It will then explore how political movements impact on participation, representation, recognition, nationalism, instrumentalism and identity politics. The module then looks at several case studies including involving political movements in several countries and regions and asks how comparison of these cases can advance our political understanding. Aidan McGarry (module coordinator) School of Applied Social Science Falmer Course(s) for which module is appropriate and status on that course Course BA(Hons) Politics BA(Hons) Politics and Social Policy BA (Hons) Politics and Sociology Status (mandatory/ compulsory/ optional) compulsory compulsory compulsory

2 BA(Hons) Social Science optional MODULE AIMS, ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT Aims Learning outcomes Content The aims of the module are: To get the students to critically reflect on the purpose of making comparisons between diverse political actors. To raise students awareness that issues are understood differently in different cultural and political contexts. To further develop student s awareness of key current political issues. On successful completion of the module the student will be able to : 1. Critically discuss the role and influence of social movements as agents for political change 2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of how political movements inform our knowledge of political concepts. 3. Show knowledge and understanding of how political movements work in practice. 4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of why the same issue will affect different political contexts differently. Topics to be covered include: Social movements theory Identity Politics Participation Mobilisation Representation Cases (including) Roma in Central and Eastern Europe Bolivian Indigenous Mobilization The Arab Spring (Egypt) Learning support A module document will detail the required reading for each session. The key texts are: Bayat, A. (2007). Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Militancy Have an Urban Ecology? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31,3: Brynen, R. et al. (2012) Beyond the Arab Spring. Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Arab World. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc. Della Porta, D. and Diani, M. (2006) Social Movements: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. Dryzek, J. (2006) Deliberative Global Politics. Cambridge: Polity Eccleshall, R. et al. (1994) Political Ideologies an introduction.

3 London, Routledge. Hague, R. and M. Harrop Comparative government and politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Hakim, H and Moshaver, Z. (2001) The State and Global Change in the Political and Economic Transition of the Middle East and North Africa. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Lewis, P. (2005) Exploring Political Worlds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. McAdam, D., McCarthy J.D. and N.Z.and Mayer. eds. (1996) Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. McGarry, A. (2010) Who Speaks for Roma? Political Representation of a Transnational Minority Community. London: Continuum. McGarry, A. (2012) The Roma Voice in the European Union: Between National Belonging and Transnational Identity. Social Movement Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3: McMurray, D. and A. Ufheil-Somers (2013) The Arab Revolts. Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pappé, I. (2010) The Modern Middle East. London, Routledge Pateman, C. (1970) Rousseau, John Stuart Mill and G.D.H. Cole: A participatory theory of democracy, in: Participation and Democratic Theory. London, Cambridge University Press. Pitkin, H. (1972) Political Representation, in: The Concept of Representation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Shepard, W.E. (1996) Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: a translation and critical analysis of Social Justice in Islam. Leiden, E.J. Brill Stephanoni, P. and Do Alto, H. (2007) The emergence of indigenous nationalism in Bolivia. In Polet, F. The State of Resistance: Popular struggles in the Global South. Zed Books: London and New York, pp Tarrow, S. (1998) Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge University Press. Tilly, C. (2005) Social Movements Paradigm. Boulder, CO. Tilly, C. (2005) Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties. Paradigm. Boulder, CO. Tilly, C. (2008) Contentious Politics. Cambridge University Press.

4 Teaching and learning activities Vermeersch, P. (2006) The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe. New York: Berghahn. Whitaker, B. (2009) What¹s Really wrong with the Middle East. London: Saqi. Journals: Social Movement Studies Mobilization Politics Political Studies Political Studies Review British Journal of Politics & International Relations Some radio and television documentaries will be made available via the Box of Broadcast facility, as the module team deem it appropriate. CIA World Factbook Students will be encouraged to regularly read a serious newspaper (e.g. Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Independent or Financial Times) and watch and listen to serious news broadcasts (e.g. Channel 4 news, BBC 10 o clock news and various Radio 4 programmes such as Analysis and File on Four.) A copy of the module handbook will be available for each student, as will access to StudentCentral. Details of teaching and learning activities 200 hours of study time delivered. 36 for direct teaching in the form of a weekly lecture and seminars. The other one hundred and sixty-four hours will be taken up in one hundred hours of private study preparing for the sessions; sixty-four hours of independent study. Allocation of study hours (indicative) Where 10 credits = 100 learning hours SCHEDULED 36 hours direct teaching. There will be three hours of contact time weekly through the duration of the module. This will be divided into an hour s lecture and a two hour workshop. The workshop will be organised differently week by week, but will include whole group discussions, and small group and individual learning exercises. Study hours 36 GUIDED INDEPENDENT STUDY 164 hours independent study taken up in one hundred hours of private study preparing for the sessions; sixty-four hours of revision. 164

5 PLACEMENT N/A TOTAL STUDY HOURS Please note this must amount to 200 hours for a 20 credit module 200 Assessment tasks Details of assessment for this module Assignment 1 (40%) (Los 1, 2) 1800 word essay exploring the role of social movements in contemporary politics. Assignment 2 (60%) (LOs 3,4) Task 2500 word essay exploring the political mobilization in two contexts. Types of assessment task 1 Indicative list of summative assessment tasks which lead to the award of credit or which are required for progression. WRITTEN Written exam, written coursework essay 0% % weighting (or indicate if component is pass/fail) COURSEWORK Written assignment/ essay, report, dissertation, portfolio, project output, set exercise 100% PRACTICAL Oral assessment and presentation, practical skills assessment, set exercise 0% EXAMINATION INFORMATION Area examination board Applied Social Science UG AEB Refer to Faculty Office for guidance in completing the following sections External examiners Name Position and institution Date appointed Date tenure ends Dr. Mikko Kuisma Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University October 2014 October 2018 QUALITY ASSURANCE Date of first approval February Set exercises, which assess the application of knowledge or analytical, problem-solving or evaluative skills, are included under the type of assessment most appropriate to the particular task.

6 Only complete where this is not the first version Date of last revision Only complete where this is not the first version Date of approval for this version Version number 3 Modules replaced Specify codes of modules for which this is a replacement N/A May 2014 Q&S Published March 2016 SS534 Available as free-standing module? Yes X No