Course Description

The conventional story on war- and peacemaking almost always speaks of great deeds by Great Men. It tells how genius generals win wars and how skillful diplomats strike peace deals; how heroic soldiers fight and how selfless peacemakers unite; and, crucially, how wars end where peace begins and vice versa. Inspired by Tolstoy’s narrative of war as an assemblage of serendipity and chance, this course will look at war/peace beyond the lens of rationality and of strategic interests. Following Latour’s reading of Tolstoy, it will introduce a less anthropocentric and – hopefully - more pluralistic perspective by allowing other actors to make peace/war, such as UN reports and US drones, reconciliation workshops and surveillance techniques, etc. Building on Foucault’s inversion of Clausewitz, it will explore war as a general grid through which modern society can be analyzed even – and especially - during so-called peacetime.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Interesting and relevant talk: "The Colonial Aspects of British and French Sociology, 1940s-1960s"

Pr. George Steinmetz, Charles Tilly Professor of Sociology à l’Université du Michigan, donnera une conférence le vendredi 14 février à 14h à l’Université Paris Dauphnine (salle C104, 1er étage droite) intitulée : « The Colonial Aspects of British and French Sociology, 1940s-1960s ». L’entrée est libre.

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