Critical Approaches to Security (5cr)
Course unit code: C-10122-POL--KV--243
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Institution
- University of Tampere
Objectives
The student is able to identify a wide range of issues discussed in critical approaches to peace and conflict research as well as to security studies. They include digital and visual mass surveillance practices, new patterns of political conflict fueled by digital media, the role of materiality, technology, and visuality in the understanding of peace and conflict. The student can also analyze the impact of material, technological and visual environments on issues and problems of peace, conflict and security.
Content
Security discourse, security practices in building identity, insecurity and dynamics of conflicts, gendered processes.