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Secessionism and modern protest movements

ВБ 2.1.1

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2021/2022

3 Semester

6

PLO4 To apply a wide range of concepts, theories, and methods of regional geography to solve professional problems of interdisciplinary nature for analyzing the diversity of socio-political, socio-ecological, economic, socio-cultural relations in countries and regions of the world accounting for a particular historical or modern context. PLO8 To apply a wide range of political science concepts, theories, and methods to the analysis of power-political relations of political actors, institutions, and ideas under a particular historical or contemporary context. PLO10 Comprehensively understand the features of the implementation of power in different political systems, their socioeconomic, historical, and socio-cultural context of functioning and interaction.

Full-time form

Before starting this course, students should have basic knowledge in the field of socio-political studies, in particular, be familiar with the functioning of the political system, the interaction between civil society and the state, the stages of the emergence and resolution of socio-political conflicts. Successful mastering of the disciplines "Geoglobalistics", "Global inequality and geoconflictology", "Geospatial management", "Glocalization: contextual analysis of transformations of socio-spatial organization". To be able to apply information and knowledge in the analysis of real political events and processes, in particular, to be critical of the array of public information and to determine its reliability and significance. To have elementary skills of scientific research regarding search, critical selection and systematization of information of both applied and theoretical nature.

The discipline is based on the need to understand the changes in the course of protest and centripetal movements since the 60s of the 20th century and assumes, first of all, the need to explain the phenomenon of protest and secessionist activity and identify their sources and factors. In particular, the indicators of socio-political tension and the destabilization index of the protest potential are analyzed. Theoretical models of revolutions of (post)industrial society and centrifugal movements are considered and compared with the specifics of revolutionary protests of the postmodern era, including the latest examples. Characteristic features of the latest revolutionary protests and secessionism are determined; the types of modern revolutions (revolutions (refolution), electoral revolutions (reelection), electronic revolutions (e-revolution)) and centrifugal movements are classified; emphasis is placed on the forms of modern protest struggle and culture. The domestic and global context of protest movements and secession is considered.

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Lectures, seminars, self-study

The level of achievement of all planned learning outcomes based on the results of work at seminars, completion of 2 final control papers, blitz quizzes, case study preparation, essays and presentations: - seminars - 15 points / 9 points; - final test papers - 20 points / 12 points; - case studies for individual tasks - 5 points / 3 points; - essay – 5 points / 3 points; - presentation of research results - 10 points / 6 points; - blitz survey - 5 points / 3 points. The exam is conducted in written form in the form of detailed and test tasks. The maximum number of points on the exam is 40 points, the minimum number of points that are added to the semester ones is 24 points. The final number of points for the discipline (maximum 100 points) is defined as the sum of points for systematic work during the semester, taking into account credit work. The credit is given based on the results of the student's work throughout the entire semester

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