Europe in Discourse - between Crisis and Revolution 3402-00EID-OG

What has changed in our understanding of Europe and the European Union in recent years? How to reconcile dominan narratives about Europe and the European Union before and after Brexit, the pandemic, the refugee crisis and the war in Ukraine?
During classes we will look at the ways in which European identity, internal divisions of Europe and its relations with the rest of the world have been defined. By reading historical, sociological and political texts, we will consider how different visions of the Europe's past and its ideal political organization translate into current political discussions and what kind of the future of the world and Europe can be imagined. The subject will be divided into several thematic blocks. The first will be devoted to the dominant narratives about Europe, identity of the continent and its political organization. In the second part, we will look at some critical perspectives on this discourse. In the third part of the semester we will deal with the history of discussions about the divisions of Europe. In the fourth we will read the latest texts regarding the contemporary situation in Europe and we will consider how their authors try to explain the current crises.

Rodzaj przedmiotu

ogólnouniwersyteckie

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Mustafa Switat

Efekty kształcenia

K_W02 - knowing the basic terminology of the humanities

and social sciences
K_W14 knowing the main methods of analysis in cultural
studies, history, social studies and philosophy in a historical
perspective
K_U02 analysing artistic, philosophical and sociological
texts using the appropriate research tools, and presenting
the results of such work
K_U04 basic research skills enabling the formulation of
research problems from the humanities, philosophy,
literature, and arts
K_K03 understanding the dynamics of scientific, cultural
and social development and keeping up with new research
methods and paradigms
K_K04 the capacity to organize and work with a group and
assume different social roles within it

Kryteria oceniania

Participation and activity at the seminar plus a text presentation. A maximum of two (2) unexcused absences is permitted

Literatura

Fragments from the following works:

- Norman Davies, „Europe. A history”, HarperCollins
Publishers 2006;
- Zygmunt Bauman, "Europa: an Unifinished Adventure",
Polity Press 2004;
- William Outhwaite, „Brexit: Sociological Responses”,
Anthem Press 2017;
- Emil Brix, Erhard Busek, „Central Europe Revisited: Why
Europe’s Future Will Be Decided in the Region”, Routledge
2021;
- Frantz Fanon, “Black skin, white masks”, Penguin Group
2021;
- Zygmunt Bauman, “Strangers at Our Door”, Polity 2016;
- Larry Wolff, “Inventing Eastern Europe”, Stanford
University Press 1994;
- Tariq Modood, “Multiculturalizm: a Civic Idea”, John Wiley
& Sons 2013;

- Krzysztof Jaskulowski, „The Everyday Politics of Migration
Crisis in Poland: Between Nationalism, Fear and Empathy”,
Palgrave Pivot 2013;
- Fareed Zakaria, “Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world”,
Penguin Books 2021;
- Maria Todorova, „Imaging the Balkans”, Oxford University
Press 2010;
- Ivan Krastew, “After Europe”, University of Pennsylvania
Press 2017;
- Immanuel Wallerstein, “European Universalism: The
Rhetoric of Power”, New Press 2006,
- Jan Zielonka, „Is the EU Doomed?”, Cambridge University
Press 2014.

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