Свобода собраний: практика в сравнительной перспективе

2019/2020

Статус: Майнор

Кто читает: Департамент политики и управления

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватели: Беляева Нина Юрьевна, Дубровский Дмитрий Викторович, Потсар Анна Никитична, Ульданов Артём Александрович

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 60

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course will examine the ways in which rights, language, and public space have been linked together in ideas about democracy. What is 'freedom of speech', what is the “freedom of assembly?» Is there a right to say anything? Is there the right to speak publicly and what is the role of peaceful demonstration and non-violent process in the regime transformation? We will investigate who has had these rights, where it has come from, and what it has had to do with current crises of democracy. Is an encounter with the fact of language, which belongs to no one and can be appropriated by anyone, at the heart of democracy? The crucial role of public activity, “street politics” as well as representation In asking about the status of the speaking (and doing something publicly) human subject, we will ask about the ways in which the subject of rights, and indeed the thought of human rights itself, derives from a political and legal experience. These questions will be examined, if not answered, across a variety of political and legal cases.

Learning Objectives

Know the major concepts of public policy – freedom of speech and freedom of assembly
Be able to recognize the main controversy between these rights and other types of rights and freedoms
Be able to apply standards of freedom of speech and assembly and implement it into the various situations
Be able to distinguish between infringements of law and human rights violations

Expected Learning Outcomes

Understand the main definitions of freedom of assembly and the guiding principles that inform the use of the concept of ‘freedom of assembly’ in public policy and related academic fields.
To gain an understanding of some of the most important historical and contemporary cases of the exercise of freedom of assembly.
To explain the historical emergence of freedom of assembly in terms of civil and political rights, and how peaceful assembly might figure in contrasts between two ‘kinds’ of rights – civil and political on the one hand and economic, cultural and social on the other.
To locate the concepts and examples of political assemblies broached in this course in wider debates about civil society covered elsewhere in the master’s programme.

Course Contents

Understanding Assemblies : Characteristics and limitations
Regulating Assemblies : Overview of Legislating History
International Institutions regulating Assemblies OSCE/ ODIHR. Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assemblies
Different Publics as Assembly Participants - cases of Publics as Policy Actors around the world
Assembly as an event of public communication: communicants, purposes, slogans
The connection between freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. Possible regulations of freedom of expression.
Verbal aggression and hate speech in public: strategies and results.
Types of offensive utterances, public and official reactions.
Linguistic expertise: European and Russian practice.
Space, Rights, and Politics. Authoritarian and Democratic use of public space.
Civil rights movement and non-violent resistance. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
Freedom of assembly and its limits: Skokie case
Religion and public space: the case of Pussy Riot.
Art and freedom of assembly: battle for public space.
New challenges for public space: right to city, “angry citizens”, and vigilantes.

Assessment Elements

Active participation
Presentations
Essay
Multiple choice test

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (4 module)
0.2 * Active participation + 0.3 * Essay + 0.2 * Multiple choice test + 0.3 * Presentations

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Ewing, K. D. (1986). The Right to Strike. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BDE47FE6
Inazu, J. D. (2012). Liberty’s Refuge : The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=568232
Johan Galtung. (1969). Violence, Peace, and Peace Research. Journal of Peace Research, (3), 167. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.sae.joupea.v6y1969i3p167.191

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Jarman, N., & Hamilton, M. (2009). Protecting Peaceful Protest: The OSCE/ODIHR and Freedom of Peaceful Assembly. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.529BE5B1
Susan L. Kang. (2012). Human Rights and Labor Solidarity : Trade Unions in the Global Economy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1648396

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