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Lehrende: Riccarda Ariane Flemmer
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
AM2:
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
4,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 24
Anmeldegruppe: AG AM2 (HF, ab WiSe 14/15)
Weitere Informationen:
Verwendbar in folgenden Studiengängen bzw. Modulen:
- B.A.-Hauptfach Politikwissenschaft: Aufbaumodul 2 - Regieren in inter- und transnationalen Institutionen oder Wahlbereich
- B.Sc. Volkswirtschaftslehre (FSB ab WiSe 2016/17), Ergänzungsfach Regieren in inter- und transnationalen Institutionen: Aufbaumodul 2 - Regieren in inter- und transnationalen Institutionen
- B.A.-Nebenfach Politikwissenschaft: Fachbezogener Wahlbereich
Kommentare/ Inhalte:
Indigenous peoples have long been a "blind spot" (Falk 1992, 48) in International Relations. In international law, indigenous peoples' rights have been increasingly recognized in international law by Convention 169 of the International Labour Organisation (1989) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007). In international negotiations, especially in debates about climate change and sustainability, indigenous representatives are highly visible political actors.
Putting indigenous peoples' agency into the centre of analysis, this seminar takes a critical perspective on the multiple roles of international law - in its different forms of human rights, international declarations, and corporate self-regulation - for indigenous peoples’ struggles.
In a global comparative perspective, Latin America is the region where these international legal instruments are most progressively implemented. However, the scope of these rights and their concrete meaning in practice is highly contested. Contestation between affected communities, state governments, and companies centres on questions of identities, resource extraction, land rights, and development models, which involve different conceptions of nature, territory, and world views, especially in the Amazon and the Andes.
The seminar is situated in political science, however, it is explicitly interdisciplinary. Three main approaches will be presented and discussed: (1.) social movement studies and the use of law as opportunity structure, (2.) International Relations critical constructivist norm research and contestation literature, and (3.) critical legal anthropology and legal pluralism with radical stances of "law from below".
***Please note that the class will include off-class reading sessions and group work.***
Lernziel:
After completing this seminar, students will have gained interdisciplinary insights on the role of international and other forms of law in struggles over indigenous peoples' rights. They will have learned about the concepts of law, rights, and norms. This includes a deep understanding of the historical trajectory of these concepts as well as the epistemological and ontological assumptions underlying them. Further, students will learn about three approaches to understand and analyse the role of indigenous peoples in International Relations as well as to reflect on recent dynamics of conflict about indigenous peoples' rights.
Vorgehen:
Participants need to be willing to engage in group work. Students are actively involved in the seminar through the discussion of selected readings, working groups and presentations.
The seminar is organized in two phases:
In the first phase, introductory sessions will give an overview of historical and recent development of indigenous peoples’ rights in an international perspective. Individual students or working groups will present short overviews on the three main approaches to the role of law in struggles over indigenous peoples’ rights based on prepared readings of key texts. These will be commented and discussed in the plenum in order to identify commonalities and differences between them.
In the second phase, students will look with one of these approach into one case of struggle of their choice. A general reading list will be provided and complemented by topic-specific suggestions.
Results of the working groups will be presented and discussed in the plenary for feedback from other participants and the course instructor. The group work can be used for the written research papers.
The last meeting will serve to summarize the conceptual and empirical insights gained, discuss open questions regarding the research papers and give feedback on the seminar.
- Materials: Slides, presentations and literature will be uploaded to OpenOLAT. some literature can be downloaded via the library system
- Interactions: Plenary Zoom sessions and group work phases, online office hours by previous appointment
- Platforms: OpenOLAT, Zoom, potentially MSTeams and Padlet etc.
Literatur:
These are general recommendations. A detailed reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.
- Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel, Jo Saglie, and Ann Sullivan, eds. 2015. Indigenous Politics: Institutions, Representation, Mobilisation. ECPR Studies in European Political Science. Colchester, United Kingdom: ECPR Press.
- Brysk, Alison. 1996. “Turning Weakness into Strength: the Internationalization of Indian Rights.” Latin American Perspectives 23 (2): 38–57.
- Santos, Boaventura d. S. 2009. “Toward a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights.” In International Human Rights Law in a Global Context, edited by Felipe Góme Isa and Koen de Feyter, 97–121. Bilbao: HumanitarianNet; University of Deusto.
- Wilson, Richard A. 1997. “Human Rights, Culture and Context: An Introduction.” In Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Richard A. Wilson, 1–27. London/ Illinois: Pluto Press.
- Wiener, Antje. 2017. “Agency of the Governed in Global International Relations: Access to Norm Validation.” Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 709-725. doi:10.1080/23802014.2017.1359064.
Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen:
Leistungsanforderungen:
- B.A.-Hauptfach Politikwissenschaft, Aufbaumodul 2 - Regieren in inter- und transnationalen Institutionen: Studienleistungen (siehe A); zusätzlich kann in dem Seminar eine Hausarbeit als Modulabschlussprüfung des AM 2 absolviert werden (siehe B).
- B.A.-Hauptfach Politikwissenschaft, Wahlbereich: Studienleistungen (siehe A); Hausarbeit nicht möglich.
- B.Sc. Volkswirtschaftslehre: Studienleistungen (siehe A) und Hausarbeit (siehe B).
- B.A.-Nebenfach Politikwissenschaft, Fachbezogener Wahlbereich: Studienleistungen (siehe A); Hausarbeit nicht möglich.
A) Studienleistungen (unbenotet):
Reading of selected texts, work in small groups, participation in group presentations, roundtable discussions.
B) Modulprüfung:
Written assignment: research paper 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. Please consult the guidelines and discuss your topic with the course instructor before writing and submitting your paper. This will allow you to have a better idea of the structure and ensures the feasibility regarding the time and space you have. The language of the paper can be English or German.
- Bewertungsschema: benotet (RPO)
- Umfang: 4.500 words
- Abgabetermin/ Date for the submission of the paper: 07.03.2021
- Abgabeort: The paper has to be submitted electronically by email as PDF to the course instructor.
- Sprache/Language: The course language is English! However, papers and assignments can be submitted in English or German!
- Ausgabeort der bewerteten Prüfungsleistung: Via Email
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