Critical response to lecture and reading

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Just this

  • Two short critical responses or comments on the lecture
  • Two short critical responses or comments on the readings.

You have to do the reading and just do critical response on it and on lecture auido.

Marking criteria.

50%: Evidence of research. Does the response demonstrate careful listening and close reading?

50%: Critical content. Higher marks will be awarded to responses that:

  • engage critically with the lecture and texts rather than merely summarise them. make persuasive arguments rather than express subjective personal reactions (‘this was interesting to me’) draw connections with issues raised elsewhere in the course.

  • I have attached the lecture video and readings also.

  • Required ReadingScholarship and analysis
    • MacFarlane, L.J. ‘Marxist Theory and Human Rights,’ Government and Opposition, 17 (1982), pp.414-428
    • Ishay, M 2011, ‘The Socialist Contributions to Human Rights: An Overlooked Legacy’, International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 225-245.

    Documents

    • Robespierre’s Proposed Declaration of Rights, 24 April 1793 and Declaration of Rights from the Constitution of 1793’, 24 June 1793, from John Hall Stewart, (ed) Documentary Survey of the French Revolution, (New York: Macmillan, 1952)
    • ‘Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People,’ 17 January 1918. This declaration, written by Lenin and submitted to the Constituent Assembly, was a classic Bolshevik statement on rights. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jan/03.htm

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