FSS:ENSn4654 Global Citizen and Systemic Ch - Course Information

ENSn4654 Global Citizenship and Systemic Change

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Adam Čajka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Hroudová (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Jan Činčera, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Klára Dubinová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies

Prerequisites (in Czech)

! HEN654 Global Citizen and Systemic Ch &&!NOW( HEN654 Global Citizen and Systemic Ch )&&TYP_STUDIA(N)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Environmental Studies (programme FSS, N-ENV)

Abstract

The aim of the course is to show the diversity of perspectives on international development, progress and wellfare and the related perspectives for change in their achievement. The first part of the course will focus on identifying the presumptions on which we base the idea of development, progress and wellfare. We will then reflect on how these ideas are constructed and, in particular, how they manifest themselves in reality. We will also focus on how currant global issues are influenced by power relations in the history (colonialism) and in the present (global capitalism). The course will then focus on conceptualizing a system change.

Learning outcomes

Student after completing this course will be able to:
- identify the assumptions and beliefs creating societal notions about development, progress and wellbeing;
- explain how global issues are shaped by power relations in the past (colonialism) and present time (global capitalism);
- use the tools of informed action concept for their own activities;
- conceptualize approches to and possibilities of achieving of systemic changes.

Key topics

• Suggested curriculum:
• 1. Preconditions for different concepts of development and wellfare;
• 2. Global issues throught the historical power relations;
• 3. The tools for supporting informed and reflected actions in the global context;
• 4. Other perspectives for development and wellfare;
• 5. Different paths to wellfare.

Study resources and literature

required literature
• ANDREOTTI, Vanessa de Oliveira (a kol.). From the house that modernity built to healthy mycelium.
• ANDREOTTI, Vannessa de Oliveira. HEADS UP checklist.
• ANDREOTTI, Vanessa de Oliveira, STEIN, Sharon, AHENAKEW, Cash, HUNT, Dallas. Mapping interpretations of decolonization in the context of higher education.
• DANĚK, Petr. Nerovnoměrný rozvoj světa: kolonialismus, neokolonialismus a diskurz rozvoje (Uneven Development: Colonialism, Neo-colonialism, and Discourse of Development). In Stát, prostor, politika. Vybrané otázky politické geografie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Přírodovědecká fakulta, 2000, p. 28-58. ISBN 80-238-5566-2. info
• PIETERSE, Jan Nederveen. My Paradigm or Yours? Alternative Development, Post-Development, Reflexive Development

recommended literature
• ČECHOVÁ, Blanka. Totál Balkán. Vyd. 1. Praha: Opravdu Skvělé Nakladatelství, 2011, 385 s. ISBN 9788087609033. info
• ESCOBAR, Arturo. Encountering Development: Making and Unmakind the Third World,1995.
• FANON, Frantz. The wretched of the earth. Edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press, 1968, 316 s. info
• GALEANO, Eduardo. Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent. Edited by Isabel Allende, Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997, xiii, 317. ISBN 0853459908. info
• Gender ve škole : příručka pro budoucí i současné učitele a učitelky. Edited by Irena Smetáčková. Vydání první. Praha: Otevřená společnost, o.p.s., 2006, 67 stran. ISBN 809033315X. info
• HARDING, Stephan. Deep Time Walk, 2007.
• KASHTAN, Miki. Reweaving our Human Fabric. Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future, 2014.
• KASHTAN, Miki. You’re Not a Bad Person: How Facing Privilege Can Be Liberating.
• KOTHARI, Ashish. Bold vision, weak words.
• LOVELOCK, James. Gaia : nový pohled na život na zemi. Vyd. 2. Tulčík: Abies, 2001, 211 s. ISBN 8088699185. info
• MACY, Joanna and Chris JOHNSTONE. Aktivní naděje : jak čelit zmatku naší doby a nezbláznit se? Translated by Hana Bernardová. První vydání. Praha: Alferia, 2020, 250 stran. ISBN 9788027110421. URL info
• MOYO, Dambisa. Dead aid : why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa. 1st ed. London: Allen Lane, 2009, xx, 188. ISBN 9781846140068. info
• NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Alice. Nerovný rozvoj světa a rozvojová teorie, 2013.
• SAID, Edward W. Orientalism. London: Penguin Books, 1995, xi, 396 s. ISBN 0-14-023867-0. info
• SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Can the subaltern speak?, 1988.
• TROLL, T. HEADS UP or thumbs down? A postcolonial analysis of the UN decade on education for sustainable development, 2012.

Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching

The course is taught in blocks, with two days spent on a trip to Předklášteří near Tišnov (the trip will take place from October 14 to October 16, 2025, starting at approximately 10:00 a.m. ending at 3:00 p.m.) and another day (the colloquium will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) during the exam period (the exact date will be agreed upon during the trip). Accommodation and meals during the trip will be fully covered thanks to support from the GearUp! project. Between the trip and the colloquium, there will be individual reading and work, which will be reflected in the colloquium. Participation in the entire trip, ongoing reading, and participation in the colloquium are prerequisites for successful completion of the course. Teaching is interactive and requires the active participation of all participants.

Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements

A meaningful co-operation within the course requires a responsible treatment of personal freedom, participation in creating a safe-space, and the ability to accept certain commitments with regards to active participation, ongoing tasks inbetween meetings (written reflection, reading) and involvement in the colloquium.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught in blocks.

Teacher's information

This course was co-funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Masaryk University and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

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