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Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Antje Wiener
Veranstaltungsart:
Vertiefungsseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
VM: Global Norm Conf
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 20
Anmeldegruppe: Anmeldegruppe Vertiefungsmodul Politikwissenschaft
Weitere Informationen:
einsemestriges Vertiefungsseminar
Dieses Seminar kann nur mit einer Prüfung abgeschlossen werden.
Verwendbar in folgenden Studiengängen bzw. Modulen:
- BA-Hauptfach Politikwissenschaft, FSB ab WiSe 2013/14: Vertiefungsmodul Politikwissenschaft (6 LP)
- BA-Hauptfach Politikwissenschaft: Wahlbereich (6 LP)
- BA-Nebenfach Politikwissenschaft: Fachbezogener Wahlbereich (6 LP)
Kommentare/ Inhalte:
This class addresses norm contestation in international relations, and the threat of global norm conflicts. Among a variety of notable contestations of either violation of or compliance with fundamental norms about fundamental norms in current global politics, the class focuses on three cases of norm contestation that have proved especially viable in light of today’s crises with regard to climate change, the international rule of law, and the global health pandemic. To explore the role and impact of political and societal agency with regard to mitigating these crises, the class zooms in on selected cases where practices of norm contestation focus on norm violation or contested compliance. Cases which trigger these two typical motivations for norm contestation among agents around the globe are breaches of the prohibition of torture, the prohibition of sexual violence of women and girls during wartime as prominent cases of contested norm violation, on the one hand, and contested compliance with the growing range of norms that seek to achieve climate justice, on the other.
Lernziel:
The class aims to convey knowledge about the interplay between order, norms, and political agency mediated by practices of contestation. To that end, students will gain insights into the method of observing instances of contestation (how does global norm conflict emerge?) based on local contestations of norms. Against this background, the class will address normative questions with regard to countering injustice through enhanced access to contestation and sustainable normativity. This is achieved by familiarising students with selected core readings in norms research, practice theory, and contestation theory in International Relations (IR). Over the course of the semester, the class will discuss core texts to garner an understanding about current key topics of norm contestation. The approach follows the two leading questions of first, Whose practices count? and second and relatedly, Whose practices ought to count? in international relations. Both questions enable a sharpening of theoretical and methodological lenses towards targeting the agency of the governed and conditions of access to contestation in global society. Central agents in this regard are those partaking in political protest (i.e. social movements, peace movements, advocacy networks, or strategic litigation networks).
Vorgehen:
Disclaimer: Classes will be conducted in presence pending pandemic conditions (see Dienstanweisungen des Präsidenten).
In the seminar’s first part, major theoretical debates are introduced and discussed. In its second part, students will work in small groups in order to identify a research problem and develop a central research question with regard to addressing that problem. In subsequent sessions, students will prepare theory-led presentations of research problems that emerge as particularly relevant to this class’s research topic of norm conflicts, practices of contestation, norm validation and normative change in world politics.
Students will participate in two types of presentation. The first presentation focuses on a shared research question that is designed to shed light on a ‘hunch’ or a ‘puzzle’ with relevance to the class’s main topic. This presentation is comparatively brief, however, do not be misled by the brevity for it is quite demanding to identify a research question and document its relevance in the field to others. The second presentation addresses the research topic in more detail. Starting with the research problem, and research question that have been identified by the first presentation, this work will detail the research assumptions, the methodology and the illustrative case studies that demonstrate how to address the issue at hand.
Literatur:
- Anderl, Felix 2021, Kontestation, Politisierung, Herrschaft: Bewegungsforschung und Internationale Beziehungen, Forschungsjournal neue soziale Bewegungen 34 (1): 122-137, https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2021-0008
- Aykut, Stefan C. et al. (2021). ‘Incantatory’ Governance: Global Climate Politics’ Performative Turn and its Wider Significance for Global Politics, International Politics 58 (3): 519-540.
- Aykut, Stefan C. et al. (2017). Globalising the Climate: COP21 and the Climatisation of Global Debates, London: Routledge.
- Davies, Sara E. and True, Jacquie, Eds. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security. Oxford University Press, Chapters by Chinkin and Ferris.
- Davies, Sara E. and True, Jacqui (2017). Norm Entrepreneurship in Foreign Policy: William Hague and the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, 1-21
- George, Nicole and Shepherd, Laura J. (2016). Women, Peace and Security: Exploring the implementation and integration of UNSCR 1325, International Political Science Review 37 (3): 297-306.
- Grear, Anna. 2017. ‘Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene’: Re-encountering Environmental Law and its ‘Subject’ with Haraway and New Materialism, in: Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene, edited by Louis J Kotze´, Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 77–96.
- Jeßberger, Florian and J Geneuss (2015) Strategic Litigation. The Role of NGOs in International Criminal Justice, Symposium in: Journal of International Criminal Justice, 13 (2)
- Krook, Monica L. and True, Jacqui (2012). Rethinking the life cycles of international norms: The United Nations and the global promotion of gender equality, European Journal of International Relations, 18 (1): 103-127.
- Murcott, Melanie and Emily Webster (2020) Litigation and regulatory governance in the age of the Anthropocene: the case of fracking in the Karoo, Transnational Legal Theory, 11:1-2, 144-164, DOI: 10.1080/20414005.2020.1777037
- Peterson M J, Ed. (2019). Contesting Global Environmental Knowledge, Norms, and Governance, London: Routledge.
- Stammer, D., Engels, A., Marotzke, J., Gresse, E., Hedemann, C., & Petzold, J. (Eds.) "Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2021: Assessing the plausibility of deep decarbonization by 2050." URL: https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3325202/component/file_3325208/content
- Steele, Brent J. (2016). Organizational Processes and Ontological (in)Security: Torture, the CIA and the United States, Cooperation and Conflict 52 (1): 69-89.
- Stuart-Smith R.F., Otto F.E.L., Saad A.I., et al. (2021) Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation. Nature Climate Change, 11, August, 651-655.
- True, Jacqui and Antje Wiener (2019). Everyone wants (a) peace: the dynamics of rhetoric and practice on ‘Women, Peace and Security’, International Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 3, 553–574.
- Tryggestad, Torunn L. (2009). Trick or Treat? The UN and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security, Global Governance 15, 539-557.
- Wiener, Antje (2017). Agency of the governed in global international relations: access to norm validation, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 709–25.
- Wiener, Antje (2018). Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Zwingel, Susanne (2012). How Do Norms Travel? Theorizing International Women's Rights in Transnational Perspective, International Studies Quarterly 56 (1): 115-129.
Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen:
Dieses Seminar kann nur mit einer Prüfung abgeschlossen werden.
Modulteilprüfung 6 LP:
Prüfungsart: research paper or dissertation proposal 4.500 words plus reference list (min.: 15 titles). The assignment may be co-authored, in that case, 500 words (per additional author) must be added.
Bewertungsschema: benotet (RPO)
Umfang: 4.500 Words
Abgabetermin: 25.2.2022
Abgabeort: per Mail an das Sekretariat des Arbeitsbereichs
Studienleistungen (unbenotet):
Buch Rezensionen, Arbeit in Kleingruppen, Beteiligung an Gruppenreferaten, Roundtable-Diskussionen.
Einreichung und "Abholungen" der Leistungen erfolgt elektronisch per Mail.
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