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Introduction to Political Ideologies : Contexts, Ideas, and Practices

Prof. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan · IIT Madras

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Fascism Introduction and Main Ideas Video
  2. Fascism - problems. The religious right and Nazism Video
  3. Ordinary people's part in fascism. A worked example Video

Week 2

  1. Background and forms of conservatism Video
  2. Main ideas and main problems in conservatism Video
  3. Short recap. Politics in a conservative society. India survey evidence Video
  4. Worked example Video

Week 3

  1. Introduction. Main ideas with examples Video
  2. Forms of the liberal state. Video
  3. Forms of liberalism Video
  4. Multiculturalism Video
  5. Main problems in liberalism. Video

Week 4

  1. Marx Biography and Main Concepts Lecture 1 Video
  2. Marx main concepts lecture 2. Video
  3. Contradictions, cyclical crises in capitalism. Problems in Marx. Video
  4. Marx - worked examples older and current. Video

Week 5

  1. Historical background; global appeal, recent revival; Catalonia; Occupy. Video
  2. Anarchism main ideas and examples. The Mondragón Corporation. Video
  3. Mutualism; syndicalism; anarchocapitalism Video
  4. Evaluating anarchism - debates and examples. Video

Week 6

  1. Intro, historical background leading to the present. Video
  2. Feminism - main concepts, with examples. Video
  3. Feminism and other ideologies Video
  4. Intersectionality and Intersectionality - worked examples. Video

Week 7

  1. Human environmental impact and forms of response. Ecological concepts. Examples and selected consequences. Video
  2. Ecologism - main concepts, with examples. Video
  3. Ecologism and politics. Video
  4. Ecologism today. Conceptual problems - the idea of nature. Natural capital - worked example Video

Week 8

  1. Poststructuralism; Derrida and Foucault; background and explanation. Political engagement. Video
  2. Postmodernism; challenge to and contrast with modernism; wide impact. Postmodern theory. Criticisms. The Sokal Hoax. Video
  3. Recap on problems in Derrida and Foucault. Postmodernist theory. Worked example 1. Video
  4. Postsructuralism and postmodernism worked examples 2 and 3. Video

Week 9

  1. Definitions. Theocracy - main themes, main problems, with examples. Video
  2. Fundamentalism - contexts for emergence, types of fundamentalism, rejection of modernity, Manichaean vision. Problems. Video
  3. Worked examples. Video

Week 10

  1. Definitions - technocracy and managerialism. Outline of technocracy - long history. Main problems - examples. Plato's analogy. Video
  2. Managerialism - self-conception; efficiency; claim to expertise; problems and failures - conceptual and empirical; examples. Video
  3. Technocracy and managerialism - worked examples. Video

Week 11

  1. Nationalism - introduction. Video
  2. Nationalism - main themes. The nation; community or organic community; self-determination; identity Video
  3. Identity politics. Forms of nationalism. Nationalism and colonialism. Video
  4. Nationalism - conceptual problems. Brexit. Video
  5. Worked examples. Video

Week 12

  1. Republicanism and Citizenship Introduction Video
  2. Citizenship as substantive membership of the polity. Video
  3. Republicanism and Citizenship problems and conclusion. Worked examples. Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 19-02-2021 Video
  2. Live Session 12-03-2021 Video
  3. Live Session 12-04-2021 Video
  4. Live Session 20-02-2020 Video
  5. Live Session 11-03-2020 Video
  6. Live Session 03-03-2022 Video
  7. Live Session 24-03-2022 Video
  8. Live Session 14-04-2022 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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