The course will introduce students to the contemporary approaches to critical security theory and authoritarianism. The course’s main aim is to evaluate the contemporary discussion on critical security from a theoretical and empirical point of view by focusing on the Turkish case. At the end of the course, students are expected to:
- Develop an understanding of critical security approaches,
- Improve their skills of critically reading and discussing research about the security practices, new security technologies, punishment and governance methods
- Identify the current debate on the global rise in authoritarian regimes
- Improve scholarly writing skills by producing an essay or research project on the topic related to security and/or authoritarianism
- Contents:
The course is about the authoritarian transformation of security practices and their impact on citizenship/subjectivity. It investigates the contemporary security mechanisms and punishment methods and focuses on four main subjects: protection, control, regulation and punishment practices. By bringing together approaches from social anthropology, political philosophy and history, it examines the historical transformations in modes of governances in Turkey that harness new technologies to punish dissidents, banish them from the public sphere, consign them to the status of ‘outcasts’ and ‘outlaws’, and transform them into disposable citizens. Although the course focuses on the Turkish chase, during the course, each student will have an opportunity to discuss further security governances modes and cases across the world from other countries.
- Teacher: Seckin Sertdemir Ozdemir