Minor Politics

Course content

This course aims to understand and think of on the theory of minor politics. Minor politics is a new field of politics with its main characteristics that distinguish it from the field of major politics. The course is composed of four main parts. The first part will detect, understand and discuss the features and dynamics of major politics. The representation and the politics of conflict and reaction are two main pillars that define the substance of major politics. The second part will define the main features of minor politics, namely prefiguration, immanence and affirmation and the politics of friendship and affects. The third part of the course will analyze the existing studies carried on some fields like urban, ecology, migration, gender, etc.