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STPEC 391H – STPEC Core 1Social Thought & Political Economy (STPEC)Fall 2016Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30 to 3:45 PMInstructor: Graciela Monteagudo, PhDgracielamonteagudo@sbs.umass.eduEmail messages will be answered within 48 hoursOffice Hours: Tuesdays 1-2 PMMachmer Hall Room E-27COr email to set up Skype sessionCourse Overview and StructureThis seminar is the beginning of the yearlong STPEC Core Seminar sequence. Core Seminar 1, this course, focuses on major currents and applications of political, social, and economic theories and the context in which they rose. Through the reading and discussion of texts that were key to foundational Western thought as well as articulated critiques of these by postcolonial subjects, we will analyze the connection between cultural processes and power. Starting in the XVI Century, we will examine liberalism, historical materialism, anarchism, post-colonial theory, post structuralism, critical race theory, and feminist-queer theoretical interventions. Throughout the course, our focus will be the understanding of how these theories relate to power constructions within societies and on a global scale, as we decode these texts as embodied manifestations of the cultural, economic, and class struggles of the time.Attendance PolicyBecause this class is based on our discussions attending every class is crucial. Make every possible effort to not skip classes as the theories we are analyzing build on each other. It would be hard to understand what comes next if you did not participate in the class discussions of the previous theories. Excused Absences: If you are forced to miss all or part of a class period due to a known conflict, please email me in advance. If you are forced to miss a class due to an emergency (illness, family crisis, etc.), contact me as soon as possible. Unexcused Absences: You are allowed 2 unexcused absences. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in the loss of a letter grade in the participation portion of your final grade.Lateness: Arriving to class late is disruptive to the instructor and to other students, and puts you at a disadvantage during the class. Unless you have cleared it with me previously, each 2 classes you are late will count as an unexcused absence. Arriving to class more than 30 minutes late also counts as an absence. Thanksgiving: Please plan to attend the Tuesday before Thanksgiving class.Students with DisabilitiesThe University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to providing an equal educational opportunity for all students. If you have a documented physical, psychological, or learning disability on file with Disability Services (DS), Learning Disabilities Support Services (LDSS), or Psychological Disabilities Services (PDS), please notify me within the first two weeks of the semester so that we may make appropriate arrangements: DynamicsSTPEC expect students to read before coming to class, and to engage in class discussions respectfully, thinking critically about your own perspective and maintaining openness to ideas and experiences that are in conflict with your own. The content of this course will lead to a number of discussions about “hot topics” such as class, gender, and racial constructions. Students are expected to engage in these conversations sensitively and with openness to critique. If you feel you cannot speak in class, please talk with me privately after class and we will figure out strategies that might help.GradingAttendance and Participation20%MOODLE Responses/class presentations30%Midterm Paper20%Annotated Bibliography and abstract 5%Oral Presentation 5%Final paper20%A 94-100A- 93-90B+ 87-89B 84-86B- 80-83C+ 77-79C 74-76C- 68-73D+64-67D 60-63F below 60Attendance and Participation (20%): This includes thoughtful comments and questions during class time to support discussion, contribution to small groups, and attendance. See above for attendance policy.Four MOODLE Responses (30%): Students will write comments pertaining to their readings. Length should be one page (double spaced). When critiquing or appraising an argument, you are expected to use direct citations. Two of these responses can be, instead, presentations about the topic in a variety of formats (Powerpoints, spoken word, video, raps, etc.) due 9/20/16, 10/06/16, 11/3/16 and 11/29/16.Midterm Paper (20%): The midterm paper is an analytical piece in which the student articulates his or her reaction to the readings assigned during the first part of the course. The student is expected to think about the different approaches of the authors, put them in conversation, and analyze them in context. At least three texts need to be analyzed in this way for this assessment. It should be 5-6 pages (double spaced, Times New Roman/Cambria font 12). Due 10/20/16.Oral Presentation (5%): Student present their final paper to class. Students can use PowerPoints, show images, short videos, and sound. Abstract, Annotated Bibliography (5%) and Final Paper (20%): The process for the final paper includes an abstract and an annotated bibliography, which must be presented two weeks before the final paper is due. Abstract and bibliography due 11/10/16. The paper itself should be 10-12 pages (double spaced, Times New Roman/Cambria font 12) and should demonstrate your ability to analyze texts, support your arguments with quotations from texts, and make broader connections with other materials of the course centered on a relevant theme of your choice. Later in the semester I will provide a rubric with more details. Final paper due 12/13/16. Note on Lateness: Unless arrangements are made before the deadline, late papers will not be awarded credit. Technology PolicyThis class is inscribed within the Open Access model to education. No books have been assigned and all texts are posted online in Moodle. If you can annotate and underline texts online, you can bring your laptop to class for reference, but you cannot use the computer for any other task, except that of taking notes. Checking email, FB, twitter, etc., will amount to being absent from the class and will be graded accordingly. Attendance and participation amount to 30% of your overall grade.Please turn your cell phone off during class.CitationsWikipedia can and should be used as a general reference. It is a great way to get acquainted with different authors and ideas, but it does not work as academic citation. You can use the site but then you must check on the references and quote from the references read, not from the information supplied by Wikipedia.When you cite an outside source, you must cite it in academically acceptable formats. This includes references to websites. Just the name of the author and the book is not sufficient, or mentioning that the text is online. If you do not know how to cite academically, you can consult the online guide by the American Anthropological Association, HonestyPlease be aware that all of your submissions will be assessed by Turn-it-in for originality.DO NOT PLAGIARISE. That means no copy and pasting, and no paraphrasing. Any form of academic dishonesty (including but not limited to plagiarism from another student's writing) will result in an automatic failure in this course, following UMass policies. ?In addition, UMass requests that instructors turn students to the University Academic Honesty Board for further academic discipline, a process that does not sound like fun for anybody involved. Please read the Ombuds information here 6 - Introductions, syllabus hand-out, overview courseSeptember 8 - Social Contract 1: Hobbes version (selections Leviathan)Social Contract 2: Locke’s version (selections Second treatise of Government)Social Contract 3: Rousseau’s version (selection of texts in Moodle)Recommended bibliographyBobbio, Norberto. 1993. Introduction. In Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Locke, John and Peter Laslett. 1988. Introduction. In Two Treatises of Government. Pp. New York: Cambridge University Press. For a contemporary feminist critique of the social contract, see Young, Iris Marion. 2005. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship. In Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology. Derek Matravers and Jon Pike. Taylor and Francis, e-Library.September 13 – Enlightenment Immanuel Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? of Independence of the Rights of Man and Citizen “feminist” critique of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenOlympe de Gouge 15 – Anarchism and the Social ContractProudhon, Pierre-Joseph. 1863. The principle of federation and the need to reconstitute the party of revolution. , accessed August 18, 2014.September 20– Enlightenment as EurocentrismQuijano, Anibal. 2000. Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America. Neplanta: Views from the South 1(3): 533-580.**************FIRST MOODLE RESPONSE DUE TODAY******************September 22 – Labor under the Enlightenment and Beyond: Theory of Surplus ValueMandel, Ernest. 1973. “The Theory of Value and Surplus Value.” An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, Pp. 5-22. New York: Pathfinder Press. September 27 – Original Accumulation of CapitalFederici, Silvia. 2004.The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women. In Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Pp. 61-132. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. Video: Karl Marx and Marxian Economics: Masters of Money—Three Economists Who Changed the World (Umass silklibrary) in classRecommended bibliographyMarx, Karl. 1909. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation. In Capital. – Vol 1, Chapter 26 . Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, Selections , Karl. [1844] 1978. Theses on Feuerbach. In The Marx-Engels Reader. Robert Tucker, ed. Pp. 143-145. New York: Norton and Co. : 29 - The Paris Commune and the Dictatorship of the ProletariatMarx, Karl. [1871] 1986. The Paris Commune and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In Karl Marx, the Essential Writings. Bender, Frederick, Ed. London, Westview Press. Recommended bibliographyDraper, Hal. 1962. Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. New Politics 1 (4). 4- The Communist ManifestoMarx, Karl. [1848] 2000. The Communist Manifesto. Marx/Engels Internet Archive () 6 – VanguardismLenin, Vladimir. What is to be Done? (in Moodle)Selection: 2. The spontaneity of the Masses and the Consciousness of the Social-Democrats, Pp 16-253.5 The Working Class as Vanguard Fighter for Democracy, Pp. 47-584.3 Organization of Workers and Organization of Revolutionaries, Pp. 70-814.4 The Scope of Organizational Work, Pp. 81-855.3 What type of Organization do we require? Pp. 110-115Film: October: The Ten Days that Shook the World (in class)*******************SECOND MOODLE RESPONSE DUE TODAY***********October 11 – No class, Monday ScheduleOctober 13 – History of the Russian Revolution Trotsky, Leon. [1932] 1957. The History of the Russian Revolution. Ann Harbor: University of Michigan Press. (ebrary)The Conquest of the Capital – Chapter 24, Volume 3, eBook: Pp. 764-792The Capture of the Winter Palace – Chapter 25, Volume 3, eBook: Pp. 793-818Conclusions – Volume 3, eBook: Pp. 869-874Recommended ReadingsFor a Leftist Critique of the Soviet RevolutionLuxemburg, Rosa. [1922] 1940. The Problem of Dictatorship. In The Russian Revolution. New York: Workers Age Publishers. (In Moodle)For an Anarchist critique (also in Moodle)October 18– The Spanish Civil War Orwell, George. 1952. Homage to Catalonia. New York: Hartcourt Brace.Selection: Chapter Five and Chapter Ten (in Moodle)October 20 - HegemonyGramsci, Antonio. 2000. Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Block. In The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935. David Forgacs, ed. Pp. 189-221. New York: New York University Press. AndGlossary of Terms, Hegemony, Pp. 422-424. Recommended bibliographyGramsci, Antonio. 1975. The Prison Notebooks. New York: Columbia University Press.Mouffe, Chantal. 1979. Gramsci and Marxist Theory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.For an anarchist critique of the concept of hegemonyDay, Richard. 2005. Gramsci is Dead. London: Pluto Press***************************MIDTERM DUE TODAY************************October 25 – Double ConsciousnessW.E.B. DuBois. Double Consciousness and the Veil. In Social Class And Stratification: Classic Statements And Theoretical Debates. Rhonda F. Levine, ed. Pp. 203-210. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield. October 27 – The colonial subject talks backFranz Fanon. 1967. Black Skin, White Masks. Pp. 7-14 (Intro), 17-40 (Chapter 1), 223-232 (Conclusion). New York: Grove Press. November 1 - National Liberation Struggles Fanon, Franz. [1963] 2004. On Violence in the International Context. In The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.Selection: Concerning violence, Pp. 35-94AndPrashad, Vijay. 2007. Algiers: the Perils of an Authoritarian State. In The Darker Nations. New York: New Press. Pp. 119-133.November 3 – Cuban RevolutionGuevara, Ernesto “Che”. 2003 Che Guevara Reader. David Deutschmann, ed. New York: Ocean Press. Selections in MoodleFilm: Che, Part 1, 2008, 134 mins Recommended bibliographyFor a critique of Cuba’s stance on gay issues: Reinaldo Arenas. 2003. Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence. In The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds. Pp. 406-411. Durham: Duke University Press. (in Moodle)Farber, Samuel. The Future of the Cuban Revolution. , accessed January 6, 2014. (In Moodle)Primary documents: ************THIRD MOODLE RESPONSE DUE TODAY********************November 8 — Formation of Race, Gender, and Class in the US – Part 1Unequal freedom: How race and gender shaped American citizenship and labor. Chapter 2, Pp. 18-55November 10 — Formation of Race, Gender, and Class in the US – Part 2Unequal freedom: How race and gender shaped American citizenship and labor. Chapter 3, Pp. 56-92**********ABSTRACT AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE***********November 17 - Civil Rights Movement in the US Gibson Robinson, Jo Ann and David J. Garrow. 1987. The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it: the Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.Selection: The Origin of the Trouble, Pp. 53-76The Boycott Begins, Pp. 77-90November 19 - Not so Peaceful Struggles for Civil Rights: Malcolm XReading: X, Malcolm and Bruce Perry. 1989. The Final Speeches. New York: PathfinderSelections: Whatever is necessary to defend ourselves, Pp. 83-90There is a worldwide revolution going on, Pp. 111-149Film: Malcolm X, 1992, 202 mins (in class)Audio Clip: Message to the grassrootsNovember 22 – Thanksgiving – No class. November 24 – Thanksgiving – No class. November 29 – Self-Defense: The Black Panthers Seale, Bobby. 1970. Seize the time: the story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. New York: Random House.Selections: TBA***************FOURTH MOODLE RESPONSE DUE TODAY**************December 1 - Black Feminism Audre Lorde. "I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities”(Selections) December 6 – Review ClassDecember 8 - Student PresentationsDecember 13 - Student Presentations********************FINAL PAPER DUE TODAY******************BibliographyDuBois, W.E.B. Double Consciousness and the Veil. [1903] 1998. In Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements And Theoretical Debates. Rhonda F. Levine, ed. Pp. 203-210. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield. Fanon, Franz. [1963] 2004. On Violence in the International Context. In The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.Federici, Silvia. 2004. The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women. In Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. Franz Fanon. 1967. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press. Gibson Robinson, Jo Ann and David J. Garrow. 1987. The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 2002. Unequal freedom: How race and gender shaped American citizenship and labor. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Gouge, Olympe de. 1791. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. , accessed August 29 2015.Gramsci, Antonio. 2000. Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Block. In The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935. David Forgacs, ed. Pp. 189-221. New York: New York University Press. Guevara, Ernesto “Che”. 2003 Che Guevara Reader. David Deutschmann, ed. New York: Ocean Press.Hobbes, Thomas. 1651. Leviathan. Selections. , accessed August 29 2015.Kant, Immanuel. 1784. An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?, accessed August 29 2015.Karl Marx and Marxian Economics. 2010. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Films Media Group, & Open University. New York, N.Y: Films Media Group. Lenin, Vladimir. 1901. What is to be Done? , John. 1690. The Second Treatise of Civil Government. , accessed August 29 2015.Lorde, Audre. 2009. I am your sister: Collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde, Byrd, R. P., Cole, J. B., & Guy-Sheftall, B., eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Malcolm X. 2000. Lee, S., Worth, M., Perl, A., Blanchard, T., Washington, D., Bassett, A., Hall, A. Warner Home Video. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video. Mandel, Ernest. 1973. “The Theory of Value and Surplus Value.” An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, Pp. 5-22. New York: Pathfinder Press. Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. [1845] 2002. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from The German Ideology. In Cultural Resistance Reader. .Stephen Duncombe, ed. Pp. 41-49. New York: Verso. Marx, Karl. [1848] 2000. The Communist Manifesto. Marx/Engels Internet Archive,, retrieved August 29 2015.Marx, Karl. [1871] 1986. The Paris Commune and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In Karl Marx, the Essential Writings. Bender, Frederick, Ed. London, Westview Press. October: Ten days that shook the world.1980. Sovkino, & Phoenix/BFA Films & Video. New York, NY: Phoenix Films. Orwell, George. 1952. Homage to Catalonia. New York: Hartcourt Brace.Prashad, Vijay. 2007. Algiers: the Perils of an Authoritarian State. In The Darker Nations. New York: New Press. Pp. 119-133.Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. 1863. The principle of federation and the need to reconstitute the party of revolution. , accessed August 18, 2014.Quijano, Anibal. 2000. Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America. Neplanta: Views from the South 1(3): 533-580.Rousseau, Jean Jacques. 1762. The Social Contract, , accessed August 29 2015.Seale, Bobby. 1970. Seize the time: the story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. New York: Random House.Trotsky, Leon. [1932] 1957. The History of the Russian Revolution. Ann Harbor: University of Michigan Press.X, Malcolm and Bruce Perry. 1989. The Final Speeches. New York: Pathfinder ................
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