PL32097: Violence, conflict and the disappearance of worlds
[Page last updated: 25 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Essay (CWES 65%)
- Coursework (CWES 35%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
Students who complete the unit successfully will be able to demonstrate:
1. A critical understanding of key themes and arguments informing contemporary debates related to political violence, and its relation to social, political, and climate change.
2. Knowledge of the interrelated nature of current crises, political violence, and the role of issues such as colonialism, religion, ideology, technology, patriarchy, capitalism, and racism in shaping them
3. An understanding and appreciation of how political thinking can equip us with tools to respond to these issues.
4. An advanced ability to synthesise theoretical and empirical information.
5. A sophisticated understanding of contemporary social and political theory.
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| Synopsis: | Enhance your knowledge of tools and concepts that can be used to confront political challenges that arise from acts of violence.
By exploring key theoretical approaches to violence, you芒锟斤拷ll evaluate and critique its role in our changing world, and ultimately look at how we can establish more sustainable and equal societies.
These topics are especially important in the current era, with new theoretical frameworks required to make sense of the trajectory of politics amid a series of global crises.
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| Content: | Through an engagement with emerging debates within contemporary critical political theory, this unit explores how the Anthropocene and associated crises relate to a number of key issues, amongst which are political violence, capitalism, religion, ideology, post-colonialism and coloniality, climate change, gender and patriarchy.
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| Course availability: |
PL32097 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AYB43 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB44 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB47 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB48 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio Mandarin) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB46 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB45 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (ab initio Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB43 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB44 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB45 : BA(Hons) International Politics and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB54 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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