HEN654 Global Citizen and Systemic Change

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Adam Čajka (lecturer)
Mgr. Petra Frühbauerová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Bc. Petra Burišková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 1. 10. 9:00–17:00 bude_upresneno, Tue 29. 10. 9:00–17:00 bude_upresneno
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! ENSn4654 Global Citizen and Systemic Ch &&!NOW( ENSn4654 Global Citizen and Systemic Ch )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to show the diversity of perspectives on international development, progress and wellfare and the related perspectives for change in their achievement. The first part of the course will focus on identifying the presumptions on which we base the idea of development, progress and wellfare. We will then reflect on how these ideas are constructed and, in particular, how they manifest themselves in reality. We will also focus on how currant global issues are influenced by power relations in the history (colonialism) and in the present (global capitalism). The course will then focus on conceptualizing a system change.
Learning outcomes
Student after completing this course will be able to:
- identify the assumptions and beliefs creating societal notions about development, progress and wellbeing;
- explain how global issues are shaped by power relations in the past (colonialism) and present time (global capitalism);
- identify specific manifestations of dominance in chosen types of relations;
- use the tools of informed action concept for their own activities;
- conceptualize approches to and possibilities of achieving of systemic changes.
Syllabus
  • Suggested curriculum:
  • 1. Preconditions for different concepts of development and wellfare;
  • 2. Global issues throught the historical power relations;
  • 3. Paradigm of dominance in the context of everyday life;
  • 4. The tools for supporting informed and reflected actions in the global context;
  • 5. Other perspectives for development and wellfare;
  • 6. Different paths to wellfare.
Literature
    required literature
  • ANDREOTTI, Vanessa de Oliveira (a kol.). From the house that modernity built to healthy mycelium.
  • ANDREOTTI, Vannessa de Oliveira. HEADS UP checklist.
  • ANDREOTTI, Vanessa de Oliveira, STEIN, Sharon, AHENAKEW, Cash, HUNT, Dallas. Mapping interpretations of decolonization in the context of higher education.
  • DANĚK, Petr. Nerovnoměrný rozvoj světa: kolonialismus, neokolonialismus a diskurz rozvoje (Uneven Development: Colonialism, Neo-colonialism, and Discourse of Development). In Stát, prostor, politika. Vybrané otázky politické geografie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Přírodovědecká fakulta, 2000, p. 28-58. ISBN 80-238-5566-2. info
  • KASHTAN, Miki. You’re Not a Bad Person: How Facing Privilege Can Be Liberating.
  • KOTHARI, Ashish. Bold vision, weak words.
  • PIETERSE, Jan Nederveen. My Paradigm or Yours? Alternative Development, Post-Development, Reflexive Development
    recommended literature
  • ČECHOVÁ, Blanka. Totál Balkán. Vyd. 1. Praha: Opravdu Skvělé Nakladatelství, 2011, 385 s. ISBN 9788087609033. info
  • ESCOBAR, Arturo. Encountering Development: Making and Unmakind the Third World,1995.
  • FANON, Frantz. The wretched of the earth. Edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press, 1968, 316 s. info
  • GALEANO, Eduardo. Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent. Edited by Isabel Allende, Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997, xiii, 317. ISBN 0853459908. info
  • HARDING, Stephan. Deep Time Walk, 2007.
  • Gender ve škole : příručka pro budoucí i současné učitele a učitelky. Edited by Irena Smetáčková. Vydání první. Praha: Otevřená společnost, o.p.s., 2006, 67 stran. ISBN 809033315X. info
  • KASHTAN, Miki. Reweaving our Human Fabric. Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future, 2014.
  • LOVELOCK, James. Gaia : nový pohled na život na zemi. Vyd. 2. Tulčík: Abies, 2001, 211 s. ISBN 8088699185. info
  • MOYO, Dambisa. Dead aid : why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa. 1st ed. London: Allen Lane, 2009, xx, 188. ISBN 9781846140068. info
  • SAID, Edward W. Orientalism. London: Penguin Books, 1995, xi, 396 s. ISBN 0-14-023867-0. info
  • SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Can the subaltern speak?, 1988.
  • NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Alice. Nerovný rozvoj světa a rozvojová teorie, 2013.
  • TROLL, T. HEADS UP or thumbs down? A postcolonial analysis of the UN decade on education for sustainable development, 2012.
Teaching methods
The course is devided into blocks, classes are interactive - using methods such as active learning, "Reading and Writing to Critical Thinking" or imagination.
Assessment methods
A meaningful co-operation within the course requires a responsible treatment of personal freedom, participation in creating a safe-space, and the ability to accept certain commitments with regards to active participation, ongoing tasks inbetween meetings (written reflection, reading) and involvement in the colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Výuka blokově ve dvou termínech, a to 1. 10. a 29. 10. vždy od 9 do 17 hodin. Výuka bude probíhat mimo FSS (NaZemi, Kounicova 42).
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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