Social Sciences

Contact:
Gunhild Hoogensen, Department of Political Science,
e-mail: gunhildh@sv.uit.no,
phone: (+47) 77 64 55 93.

Academic coordinator (faglig ansvarlig): Gunhild Hoogensen
Contributors/lecturers:
Graham Brown, Oxford University
Nils Petter Gleditsch, PRIO
Oscar Salemink, Vrij Universiteit, Amsterdam
Jorid Anderssen, University of Tromsø
Gunhild Hoogensen, University of Tromsø
Lassi Heinenen, University of Lapland, Finland

The course:
12.-16. December 2005.
The course will last for five days and combine lectures and presentation of student papers. The course prioritizes doctoral students and researches. Students who have not completed masters degrees are welcome to informally attend the course, but will not be able to receive credit.

Application form:
The code of the course is: STV-8002, please use this code in the application form here.
Please send it to the address at the top of the application form.

Deadline: 31. October 2005.

Deadline for paper/presentation abstracts: 21. November to Gunhild Hoogensen: gunhildh@sv.uit.no

Venue: University of Tromsø
Course language: English

Credits: With presented and approves essay: 10 points (ECTS)
The essay: 15 pages

Course Evaluation:
The students will receive a grade for the course on the basis of their participation and the quality of their paper. The grade will be issued prior to editing and publication in the edited volume. Publication in the edited volume will be contingent upon results of external peer reviews and/or editorial perogative.

Course arrangement:
The course will constitute a 5-day lecture and workshop arrangement, whereby lectures will be intermingled with discussion and paper presentations. The course papers will also be edited and published in an edited volume (publisher to be confirmed) on critical perspectives on security. Given the nature and ambitions of the course (in producing an edited volume), the course weight will be 10 ECTS or credits. The edited volume will count towards a publication for the participating students.

All potential participants should check this website regularly for updates regarding the course, including the announcement of preliminary readings prior to the start date of the course (this announcement will appear after the application closing date). If you wish to be kept informed through a course email list, please send an email to Gunhild Hoogensen (gunhildh@sv.uit.no).

Program:
The times for the different lectures/discussions are approximate, and will vary according to need. Room: C-1003 in Breivika III, Faculty of Social Science.

12. December:
09:30 - 11:30
Introduction and brief presentation of security debates: Gunhild Hoogensen, Political Science (UiTø)

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 14:00
Conflict and human security: Nils Petter Gleditsch, PRIO.

14:30 - 16:30
Presentation of student papers: Rita Taureck and Tamara Semenova.

13. December:
09:30 - 11:30
Environmental security: Nils Petter Gleditsch.

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 14:00
Presentation of Student papers: Alan Klæbel and Kristin S. Scharffscher.

14:30 - 16:30
Traditional Security: Lassi Heinenen, University of Lapland.

14. December:
09:30 - 11:30
Failures of security: Graham Brown, Oxford University.

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 14:00
Risk and vulnerability – relation to security?: Jorid Anderssen, Sociology (UiTø).

14:30 - 16:30
Gender approaches to security: Gunhild Hoogensen.

15. December:
09:30 - 11:30
Human Security and Human Rights: Graham Brown.

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 14:00
Human Security Report: Graham Brown.

14:30 - 16:30
Student paper presentations: Kirsti Stuvøy and Holger Pötzsch.

16. December:
09:00 - 12:00
Human Security – an anthropological issue: Oscar Salemink, Vrij Universiteit.

12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:30
Debate? What debate?? Wrap-up Discussion

STV 8002 - pensum:
500 pages, including articles and/or chapters from the following:

Bigo, Didier (2001). “The Möbius Ribbon of Internal and External Security(ies)” in Identities, Borders Orders: Rethinking International Relations Theory. Mathias Albert, David Jacobsen and Yosef Lapid, eds. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press.

Buzan, Barry, Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde (1998). Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU (2003). Constructing Human Security in a Globalizing World. Amsterdam: VU-FSW Research programme.

Eriksen Thomas Hylland (2005). Risking security: Paradoxes of social cohesion. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Inaugural Lecture 15 March 2005.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter (2001). “Environmental Change, Security and Conflict” in Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict, Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds. Washington: United States Institute for Peace.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter (2003). “Environmental Conflict: Neomalthusians vs. Cornucopians” in Security and Environment in the Mediterranean, Hans Günter Brauch, P.H.Liotta, Antonia Marquina, Paul F. Rogers, Mohammad E-Sayed Selim, eds. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer Publishers.

Hoogensen, Gunhild and Svein Vigeland Rottem, (2004). “Gender Identity and the Subject of Security” Security Dialogue 35 (2): 154-171.

McDonald, Matt (2002). “Human Security and the Construction of Security” Global Society, vol. 16, no.3, 277-295.

McSweeney, Bill, (1999). “A Conceptual Discussion” in Security, Identity and Interests: A Sociology of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 81-100.

Nussbaum, Martha (2003). “Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice” Feminist Economics 9 (2-3): 33-59.

Special Section on Human Security: Security Dialogue, 35 (3), 2004 (42 pages total).

Acharya, Amitav (September 2004). “A Holistic Paradigm,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 355-356.

Alkire, Sabina (September 2004). “A Vital Core that Must Be Treated with the Same Gravitas as Traditional Security,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 359-360.

Axworthy, Lloyd (September 2004). “A New Scientific Field and Policy Lens” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 348-349.

Bajpai, Kanti (September 2004). “An Expression of Threats Versus Capabilities Across Time and Space,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 360-361.

Burgess, Peter, and Taylor Owen (September 2004). “Editors’ Note” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 345-346.

Buzan, Barry (September 2004). “a Reductionist, Idealistic Notion that Adds Little Analytical Value,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 369-370.

Evans, Paul (September 2004). “A Concept Still on the Margins, but Evolving from Its Asian Roots,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 363-364.

Grayson, Kyle (September 2004). “A Challenge to the Power over Knowledge of Traditional Security Studies,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 357.

Hampson, Fen Osler (September 2004). “A Concept in Need of a Global Policy Response,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 349-350.

Hubert, Don (September 2004). “An Idea that Works in Practice,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 351-352.

Krause, Keith (September 2004). “The Key to a Powerful Agenda, if Properly Delimited,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 367-368.

Leaning, Jennifer (September 2004). “Psychological Well-Being over Time,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 354-355.

Liotta, P.H. (September 2004). “A Concept in Search of Relevance,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 362-363.
MacFarlane, S. Neil (September 2004). “A Useful Concept that Risks Losing Its Political Salience,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 368-269.

Mack, Andrew (September 2004). “A Signifier of Shared Values,” Security Dialogue, 35, (3); 366-367.

Newman, Edward (September 2004). “A Normatively Attractive but Analytically Weak Concept,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 358-359.

Owen, Taylor (September 2004). “Human Security – Conflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based Definition,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 373-387.

Paris, Roland (September 2004). “Still an Inscrutable Concept,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 370-372.

Suhrke, Astri (September 2004). “A Stalled Initiative,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 365.

Thakur, Ramesh (September 2004). “A Political Worldview” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 347-348.

Thomas, Caroline (September 2004). “A Bridge Between the Interconnected Challenges Confronting the World,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 353-354.

Uvin, Peter (September 2004). “A Field of Overlaps and Interactions,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 352-353.

Winslow Donna and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (September 2004). “A Broad Concept that Encourages Interdisciplinary Thinking,” Security Dialogue, 35 (3); 361-362.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 1994., Human Development Report 1994: New Dimensions of Human Security, New York: UNDP, 1994 (Chapter 2): http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/1994/
en/pdf/hdr_1994_ch2.pdf

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2005., Human Development Report 2005: International Cooperation at a Crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world, New York: UNDP, 2005 (Chapter 5):
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005
/pdf/HDR05_chapter_5.pdf

Whittington, Sherrill, (2003). “Gender and Peacekeeping: The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor,” Signs. 28, 4: 1283-1288.

Winslow, Donna (2003). Human Security. Inaugural Lecture, VU

Recommended sources (these will also be referred to in lectures):

Appadurai, Arjun (1996). The Production of locality. In: Richard Fardon, ed., Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge. London: Routledge, pp. 204-225.

The Human Security Centre, Human Security Report 2005: War and peace in the 21st Century, Vancouver: Human Security Centre, University of British Columbia:
http://www.humansecurityreport.info/
index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=63

Commission on Human Security, Human Security Now: Final report of the Commission on Human Security:
http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/
finalreport/index.html

Canadian Government:
http://www.humansecurity.gc.ca/menu-en.asp

Japanese Government:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/human_secu/

Human Security Network:
http://www.humansecuritynetwork.org/
menu-e.php

Bauman, Zygmunt 2003
Community: Seeking safety in an insecure world. Cambridge: Polity. (in particular chapter 1).
Section: case study Vietnam

Salemink, Oscar 2003
Enclosing the Highlands: Socialist, Capitalist and Protestant Conversions of Vietnam’s Central Highlanders. Chiang Mai: Conference paper ‘Politics of the commons’.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/
00001142/00/Oscar_Salemink_RCSD_paper.pdf

Salemink, Oscar 2005
“Seeking spiritual security in contemporary Vietnam”. Paper presented at the Conference “The Anthropology of Human Security”. Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, 29-30 August 2005.
http://www.fsw.vu.nl/images_upload/
C8D6C528-C29B-6850-412D9BEE4745D86F.pdf

Section: certainty, security & risk
Barber, Benjamin R. 1992
Jhad vs. McWorld, The Atlantic Monthly March 1992.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/
foreign/barberf.htm

Beck, Ulrich 1992
From Industrial Society to Risk Society: Questions of survival, social structure and ecological enlightenment, Theory, Culture & Society 9: 97-123.
http://ft.csa.com/htbin/ids65/
process_pdfrequest.cgi?an=10%2e1177%2f026327692009001006&db=sagesoc%2dset%2dc&us=1091028829&ssparm=16de27de564eb
55424fd275f72c9aa43&issn=0263-2764

Boholm, Åsa 2003
The cultural nature of risk: Can there be an anthropology of uncertainty? Ethnos, 68(2): 159-178.
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/
media/B5UC1606UR3RWM8RVVTK/
Contributions/L/V/Y/1/
LVY1HEPCEKH7C6WR.pdf

Nooteboom, Gerben 2003
Crickets among the ants: Risk taking, sex and gambling. In: A Matter of Style: Social Security and Livelihood in Upland East Java. Nijmegen: Doctoral dissertation, pp. 221-245.

Schwartz, Barry 2000
Self-determination: The tyranny of freedom. American Psychologist 55(1): 79-88.
http://md1.csa.com/ids70/linking.
php?linktype=FulltextPDF&docid=psycarticles-
set-c%2FAMP_backfile_2000r11.wais+2835904+
psycarticles-set-c&SID=8ba2271f2ce2608b1b
161913ab441d79

Schwartz, Barry
The tyranny of choice. Scientific American April 2004: 43-47.
http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~kyu/
Measurement/Choice.pdf