Global responsibility, 5 cr

The term “global responsibility” is present in many debates across the globe, relating to diverse phenomena such as human mobility, development, climate change. International bodies such as the United Nations (UN) have sought to address these issues in a responsible manner, most recently with instruments such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Global Compacts on Migrants and Refugees. However, in practice the implementation of these tools and a broader understanding of the idea of global responsibility is under a constant debate. This course unpacks critically both the terms “global” and “responsibility” by asking, through diverse case examples, whose global is in question and, consequently, whose responsibility this invocation of global harnesses into being. It asks, how politics of knowledge formation necessarily forms part of these debates, and how these different formations have changed over time. This course will probe these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The course builds on the success of the previous course “Decentering the Global”, by the Tampere Network for Global & Transnational Research (T-Global) and New Social Research (NSR) Programme yet addresses the themes from a unique perspective. The course is open for Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral students.