Global Palestine: tracing the shifting horizons of violence and power course explores Palestine as a decisively global space that plays a central role in the global circuits of violence, economy, and geopolitics. We discuss how forces of settler colonialism, empire, and capital shape life in Palestine/Israel, and how such global forces can be understood through Palestine. In this course, Palestine is not a periphery of the ”global” but a site of its making.
The themes to be examined include: the global value chains and circuits of Israel’s military technologies, the role of international ”peace” and ”development” agendas in the on-going colonization, the shifting role of Global South in Palestine/Israel, the evolving landscapes of settler colonial and anti-colonial activities, and much more.
- Course period: 9.9.–19.10.2025 (Tuesdays & Thursdays 16.15–17.45 EEST if not otherwise agreed).
- Application period: 16.6.–15.8.2025, maximum of 30 students will be accepted on the course
- Format: Zoom sessions, visiting lecturers by international scholars.
- Credits: 5 ECTS (subject to home institution recognition)
- Organizer: Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME), the course is coordinated by researcher Antti Tarvainen
- Target group: The course is intended for master’s level students in relevant fields of social sciences and humanism. Applications are welcomed from students at Finnish universities and Finnish students studying abroad. In the selecting the participants, there will be emphasis on representation from different universities. The course is free of charge. Bachelor level applicants are approved in exceptional conditions.
Learning methods
The majority of course sessions consist of a visiting lecture (lecturers will be published in early Autumn) and a Q&A session led by the students. Students are expected to have read the assigned reading for each session and prepare questions ahead of time. Completing a final essay is required to pass the course. Active participation forms 30 % of the final course grade and 70 % of the assessment for this course is based on the final essay.