Study-unit ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE

Course name Investigation and security sciences
Study-unit Code GP004294
Curriculum Comune a tutti i curricula
Lecturer Giovanni Pizza
Lecturers
  • Giovanni Pizza
Hours
  • 54 ore - Giovanni Pizza
CFU 9
Course Regulation Coorte 2021
Supplied 2021/22
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline antropologiche, storico-geografiche e psico-pedagogiche
Sector M-DEA/01
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The question of the anthropology of violence in the comparison between the Us and Them.
The difference between personal violence and structural violence.
The symbolic violence.
On urban violence: the case of the city of Rome.
Reference texts B. Palumbo, Lo sguardo inquieto.Marietti, Bologna, 2020.

G.Pizza, L'antropologia di Gramsci, Carocci, Roma, 2020.

M. Herzfeld, Sfrattati dall'eternità, Meltemi, Milano, 2021.
Educational objectives The candidate will be able to address the issues of international conflicts and wars with an anthropological analytical capacity.
Prerequisites Knowledge of Italian language
Teaching methods lessons face to face
Learning verification modality written and oral examination
Extended program 1. What is ethnography.
2. Freedom and violence.
3. Individual and structural violence
4. Material and symbolic violence.
5. The massacres
6. Wars
7. Terrorism
8. Genocides
9. Conflict resolution
10 The city and violence