Course Readings

WEEK 1-4: FRAMING VIOLENCE
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASS (1/24)

WEEK 2: THEORIES ON PHYSICAL VIOLENCE (1/31)
Zizek, Slavoj. 2008. Pp. 1-39 in Violence. New York: Picador.
Collins, Randall. 2008. Pp. 1-35 in Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

WEEK 3: THEORIES ON EVERYDAY AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE (2/07)
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy and Philippe Bourgois. 2004. “Introduction: Making Sense of Violence.” Pp. 1-31 in Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. “Everyday Violence.” Pp. 216-267 in Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Farmer, Paul. [1997] 2004. “On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below.” Pp. 281-289 in Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

WEEK 4: THEORIES ON SYMBOLIC AND ETHICAL VIOLENCE (2/14)
Bourdieu, Pierre and Loïc Wacquant. [1992] 2004. “Symbolic Violence.” Pp. 272-274 in Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Butler, Judith. 2005. “Against Ethical Violence.” Pp. 41-82 in Giving an Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham University Press.

WEEK 5-8: BODY AND VIOLENCE
WEEK 5: ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE HOLIDAY (2/21)

WEEK 6: GENDERED VIOLENCE (2/28)
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998. Pp. 1-80 in Masculine Domination. Translated Richard Nice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Namaste, Viviane K. 2000. “Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space.” Pp. 135-156 in Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

WEEK 7: SPORTING VIOLENCE (3/07)
Messner, Michael. 1990. “When Bodies are Weapons: Masculinity and Violence in Sport.” International Review for the Sociology of Sport 25(3): 203-219.
Wacquant, Loïc. 2004. “The Street and the Ring.” Pp. 13-149 in Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

WEEK 8: THE DISCIPLINED BODY (3/14)
Foucault, Michel. [1975] 1995. Pp. 3-31, 135-169, and 170-194 in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.

WEEK 9-11: SPACE AND VIOLENCE
WEEK 9: SPRING BREAK (3/21)

WEEK 10: CARTOGRAPHIC VIOLENCE (3/28)
Neocleous, Mark. 2003. “Off the Map: On Violence and Cartography.” European Journal of Social Theory 6(4): 409-425.
Dalby, Simon. 2006. “The Pentagon’s New Imperial Cartography: Tabloid Realism and the War on Terror.” Pp. 295-308 in Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence, edited by Derek Gregory and Allan Pred. New York: Routledge.

WEEK 11: TERROR AND TERRITORY (4/04)
Fanon, Franz. [1963] 2004. “Colonial War and Mental Disorder.” Pp. 443-452 in Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Fanon, Franz. 1963. “On Violence.” Pp. 1-62 in The Wretched of the Earth. New York:Grove Press.
Discussion of Essay Prompts and Rubric for Evaluation

WEEK 12-14: STATE AND VIOLENCE
WEEK 12: INCEPTIONS AND BREAKS (4/11)
Brown, Wendy. 1995. “Finding the Man in the State.” Pp. 166-196 in States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Lenin, VI. 1932. Pp. 7-24, 35-37, and 71-75 in State and Revolution. New York: International
Publishers.

WEEK 13: STATES OF ABANDONMENT (4/18)
Auyero, Javier and Débora Alejandra Swistun. 2009. Pp. 1-20, 63-80, and 82-108 in Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Bourgois, Philippe and Jeff Schonberg. 2009. Pp. 1-45 and 297-320 in Righteous Dopefiend. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

WEEK 14: CONCLUSIONS (4/25)
Paper Due and Discussion of Papers