SOCI 326: Conflict, Violence, and Peace

SOCI 326-001: Conflict, Violence, and Peace
(Fall 2022)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R

Planetary Hall 127

Section Information for Fall 2022

Drawing on ethnography, social theory, fiction, and memoir, this course will introduce sociology and anthropology as an invitation for students to re-conceptualize and deepen their understanding of conflicts and violence as cultural, social, political, and subject forming phenomena. We will look at how catastrophe and forms of violence are responded to in the clinic, in law, in publics, and in the domestic. In this course we become familiar with ideas that highlight the intimacy between normative concepts of everyday life and experiences of suffering and violence, including social suffering, everyday violence, and structural violence. In particular we will look at how trauma discourses have shifted institutional responses to violence and peace and how the subjective experience of violence moves beyond and pushes the limits of current discourses on trauma. Cross listed with ANTH 396.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Explores the sociology of conflict, violence, and peace to examine these crucial issues from a scholarly viewpoint. Focuses on the causes and consequences of violence. Examines a wide variety of remedies from conventional deterrence and arms control strategies to alternative perspectives from nonviolent civil resistance to peacebuilding, international law, and restorative justice, as well as conflict transformation and resolution strategies. Limited to three attempts.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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