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Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities: _________________________________________________________________________________________ Interdisciplinary Readings in English for Academic Purposes: Political Science, Intelligence and Area Studies G. R. Dominique 2 The Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, Public Domain, \https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Jerusalem_Chamber Project Overview: Advanced Studies In English for the Social Sciences, General Science,s and Humanities for Palestinian Universities ___________________________________________________ PLEASE NOTE: Draft copies are generally available online and updated as the situation warrants. These coursebooks are intended for advanced undergraduates and MA-level students who intend to apply for graduate work in universities abroad. Most are available online at “Academia.Edu” [https://aqu.academia.edu/GinaDominique] [Series One] Cultural Studies, Epistemic Practices, and Resistance Theory for Palestinian Universities [Series Two] Resources in the Study of Academic Literacy and Aademic Discourse in English for Palestinian Universities [Series Three] Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities Vol. 1. Cultural Studies, Epistemic Practices, And Resistance Theory for Palestinian Universities [English EFL] Critical Resistance And Cultural Studies: An International, Interdisciplinary Curriculum For Palestinian Universities The courses described in this catalogue form the basis of a proposed international and interdisciplinary curriculum for advanced studies in Palestinian universities and, to a lesser extent, perhaps, delivered by means of online platforms. Most of them, however, can be adapted for use in an honors undergraduate track—particularly for English majors and for those matriculating in the Faculty of Arts with the intention of pursuing graduate studies abroad. Vol. 2. Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities: An Interactive Arabic-English Lexical Notebook for Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Students in the Social Sciences and Humanities Vol. 3. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities Discipline-Specific and Interdisciplinary Lexicons, Academic Phraseology, and Conceptual Metaphors for the Social Sciences and Humanities [one of several systematic and interactive lexical notebooks for use in a traditional classroom setting as well as in technology- enhanced courses, and distance learning] Vol. 4. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis: Literary History and Criticism Vol. 5. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis: Archaeology and Heritage Preservation/Management in Palestine Vol. 6. Resources in the Study of English for Special Purposes in for Palestinian Universities: Cultural, Archaeological, and Political Tourism in Palestine. Vol. 7. Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities: Conceptual History and the History of Concepts: Timelines in the Western History of Ideas. Vol. 8. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities Political Science, Area Studies, and International Studies Vol. 9. Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities: Critical Conceptual Analysis of Documentary Films, Verbal and Visual Mass Culture, and Ancillary Materials in the Study of Contemporary Political Discourse ADDITIONAL VOLUMES CURRENTLY IN PREPARATION Vol. 10. Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities: Approaches to Writing as a process and an Epistemic Practice 3 Vol. 11. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis: Literary Theory, History, and Criticism Vol. 12. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis: Theatre and the Performing Arts Vol. 13. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis: Introduction to Middle Eastern History Vol. 14. Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis: Media and Communication Studies Vol. 15 Resources in the Study of Academic Discourse in English [EFL] for Palestinian Universities: General Academic and Domain-Specific Lexis Intellectual History Resources in Cultural Studies for Palestinian Universities: Interdisciplinary Readings in English for Academic Purposes: Political Science, Area Studies, and International Studies G. R. Dominique ___________________________________________________________________________________ A general Introduction To Critical Resistance And Cultural Studies Critical Resistance and Cultural Studies, its supplements and ancillary volumes of templates, slides, and interactive guides to critical reasoning, research methodologies, lexical competence and conceptual knowledge are intended to form the provisional epistemic foundations for a nascent, interdisciplinary and international curriculum for Palestinian universities. They are meant to counter the cognitive-epistemic effects of an antiquated and arguably colonialist program of study. As a faculty member in departments of English Literature, I offer this material as a practical way of maintaining the general characteristics of the institutionally-mandated curriculum for a population under military occupation and yet a potentially transformative means of resistance to both the Israeli Occupation and the systemic assaults and corrosive effects of administrative policies on both sides that are designed, apparently, to inhibit or restrict intellectual and academic freedom. Among the more overt indicators of ideological coercion practiced in the Occupied Territories is Israeli Military Order 854, issued in 1980 and by means of which the State of Israel determines, in effect, what counts as “knowledge.” My response has been to develop and advance a decolonializing approach to knowledge production, reproduction, and representation; to counter the cognitive-epistemic effects of an antiquated and tacitly colonialist social sciences and humanities curriculum. Palestinian academics function under the rigid constraints imposed by Israeli Occupation Forces-- by a regime whose legitimacy derives, in effect, from its ability to restrict access to scholarship, to articulate, impose, and promote an historical narrative (or counter-narrative) which is consistent with the interests of the Zionist state and which, over time and repetition, has come to be accepted as normative, particularly in the English- speaking West. While it is true that the new technologies have allowed greater, digital access to scholarly work, the immediate, unfettered and unmediated access to global information systems which is taken for granted in most universities is limited in the West Bank and Gaza. Such access, moreover, is essentially useless to those who lack the critical competencies, or analytical skills, necessary to judge the veracity of socially constructed knowledge claims—particularly those are thought to provide the (spurious) historical justification and humanitarian necessity of Zionist settler colonialism. In my experience, at least, over the past 10 year s I’ve spent teaching English Language, literature, and Cultures, both in Palestine and in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem, Palestinian universities are surveilled, managed, and ultimately “contained” by political forces, internal and external, whose interests are best served by allowing merely the illusion of academic accomplishment and intellectual freedom. COURSE CONTENT AND DELIVERY 4 Each “master syllabus” and outline is continuously revised and updated and is provided to students together with an abridged version containing only the specific assignments—those selected for each individual semester and the level of the students. Accordingly, while the main digital library contains full text, students are also given a course package of readings that have already been edited for length (and level-appropriate content). In this way, students can benefit from a broad view survey of important texts without becoming over-burdened by an excessive amount of reading. The graduate versions of the courses are divided into theme-based units and each student (or pair of students) is assigned one of them as a basis for a class presentation on the content listed. All students will read only some portion of the material listed in the table of readings. The program is thus prepared for contingencies such as an escalation of military operations and incursions, closures and strikes, intermittent or sporadic live fire. Each individual course, furthermore, is structured in such a way that e-class and other distance- learning protocols may be deployed to ensure continuity in course delivery—to the extent that continuity is possible in the Palestine territories. Finally, many of these courses can be modified for use in discipline-specific English Language courses and substituted for the generic, general English Language requirement which uses “canned readings" with little or no critical, academic or discipline-specific content. Courses such as these are of little value to Palestinian students who wish to do advanced coursework in a specific area of study—for which they need substantive domain knowledge as well as the ability to read academic journals and perform documentary research efficiently and effectively in English as well as in their native Arabic. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ACADEMIC OR DISCURSIVE PRACTICES Ideological Representations in university curricula Theories of Knowledge Production in Cultural Context Knowledge, Power, and the Academic Establishment The University and the Military- Industrial Academic Complex Transgressing or Transforming Disciplinary Boundaries Interdisciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Research Decolonizing Epistemologies and Pedagogical Praxis Decolonizing Cognitive Strategies Academic Reading Strategies and Purpose-Driven Reading Subjugated, Situated, and Subjective Knowledge Self- and Psychological Colonization Disciplinary Structuring and Restructuring of Knowledge, New Knowledge Production, and Methods of Inquiry The notion of academic or linguistic colonization Introduction To The Foundational Concepts And Methodologies Of Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Practice ______________________________________________________________- PROPOSED PRELIMINARY ORIENTATIONS AND PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS ON THE FOLLOWING Academic and Information Literacy A Lexis-Based Approach to the Study of Language and Literature Introduction to Academic discourse and Academic Discourse Socialization Multiple Techniques of Analysis and Interpretation Content Analysis Lexical Competences Critical Thinking/Analysis Developing and Deploying Multiple Cognitive Models Critical Theory [Using Critical Theory as an approach to higher-order forms of analysis, academic and critical literacies] Critical Discourse Analysis Content Analysis Cognitive Structures and strategies 5 Methods and Materials of Academic Inquiry, Specifically, Documentary/Qualitative Research Design Electronic Databases Academics In Abeyance: Critical Theory And Cultural Studies Under Occupation The courses described below are intended to serve as a basis of an international and interdisciplinary curriculum for advanced studies in Palestinian universities. Most of them, however, can be adapted for use in an honors undergraduate track—particularly for English majors and for those in the Faculty of Arts who intend to pursue graduate study abroad. Most of these courses and symposia, and workshops can be modified for use in discipline-specific English Language courses and substituted for the general, or generic English Language requirements which use “canned readings" with little or no critical, academic or discipline-specific content. Courses such as these are of little value to Palestinian students who wish to do advanced coursework in a specific area of study—for which they need substantive domain knowledge as well as the ability to read academic journals and perform documentary research efficiently and effectively in English as well as in their native Arabic. Each course has been designed to meet the specific needs of Palestinian students whose exposure to the norms, practices and standards of the international academic community has been severly limited, largely due to the Israeli military occupation which has, historically and by means of Military Orders, intended to contain, control and ultimately undermine higher education and critical agency in the Occupied Territories. Students and faculty alike function under extraordinarily difficult circumstances—socio-cultural, linguistic, economic, and political.. Our campuses and offices are subject to requent IDF incursions designed primarily to create and maintain conditions “on the ground” which are designed to militate against intellectual development and the free exchange of ideas. Our classrooms are subject to covert surveillance protocols and our faculty to various forms and degrees of treachery and intimidation. A primary objective, however, is the advancement of a decolonializing academic discourse here in the Palestinian territories. The courses in this series, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, were designed originally to counter the cognitive-epistemic effects of an arguably antiquated and tacitly colonialist curriculum. Palestinian universities struggle to operate under the rigid constraints imposed by Israeli Occupation Forces-- by a regime whose legitimacy derives, in effect, from its ability to restrict access to scholarship, to articulate, impose, and promote an historical narrative (or counternarrative) which is consistent with the interests of the Zionist state and which, over time and repetition, has come to be accepted as normative. While it is true that the new technologies have allowed greater, digital access to scholarly work, the immediate, unfettered and unmediated access to global information systems which is taken for granted in most universitiesis is limited in the West Bank and Gaza. Some of the courses provide a general introduction to the study of discourse, ideology, and power structures as defined and articulated in various contexts—historical, social, and intellectual. Such concepts, contested or otherwise, are examined in considerable detail across interdisciplinary knowledge domains. MOST COURSES IN THIS GROUP, IN ADDITION TO COVERING THE SPECIALIZED CONTENT, ADDRESS ISSUES SUCH AS THE FOLLOWING: Academic Resistance New Knowledge Formation Epistemic Hegemony Statism Academic Autonomy The politics of knowledge Counterhegemonic Curriculum Academic Capitalism Internationalisation of Higher Education Commercialization and Commodification of Academic Research Decolonizing Methodologies The University as an Ideological State Apparatus Theories of Knowledge Production in Cultural Context 6 Knowledge, Power, and the Academic Establishment The University and the Military- Industrial Academic Complex Transgressing or Transforming Disciplinary Boundaries Interdisciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Research Decolonizing Epistemologies and Pedagogical Praxis Decolonizing Cognitive Strategies Subjugated, Situated, and Subjective Knowledge Self- and Psychological Colonization Disciplinary Structuring and Restructuring of Knowledge, New Knowledge Production, and Methods of Inquiry Academic or Linguistic Colonization The courses also address various types of knowledge and the socio-political (ideological), historical, and philosophical context in which it is produced. As Ali Jabareen in “Palestinian Education in Mandatory Palestine” has pointed out, the curriculum of any department can be manipulated by a dominant elite, political group or government to oppress and control the population at large. Oppressive elites or despotic governments have often used education as a tool for social control. Such education has often been misused and manipulated to serve only the narrow interests of those in power. Therefore, when one talks about a certain educational system, one must make clear what kind of educational policy he or she is referring to, the content of that education, the curricula, the intentions and policies of the decision makers, be it a dominant class, government, or state.” 1 Foundational Concepts And Methodologies Of Critical Theory And Interdisciplinary Practice THIS SERIES OF COURSES MAY ENTAIL PRELIMINARY ORIENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS ON THE FOLLOWING: Academic and Information Literacy A Lexis-Based Approach To The Study Of Language And Literature Introduction To Academic discourse Academic Discourse Socialization Multiple Techniques of Analysis and Interpretation Cognitive Strategies for University-Level Reading Content Analysis Academic Reading Strategies and Purpose-Driven Reading Lexical Competences Critical Thinking/Analysis Developing and Deploying Multiple Cognitive Models Critical Theory [Using Critical Theory as an Approach to Academic Reading] Critical Discourse Analysis Content Analysis Developing and Deploying Multiple Cognitive Models Linguistic Analysis as a Means of Understanding Cognitive Structures And Processes. Developing and Deploying Multiple Cognitive Models Methods and Materials of Academic Inquiry, Specifically, Documentary/Qualitative Research Design Electronic Databases AGGREGATED COMPETENCIES English-based Academic, Information, and Critical Literacies Writing as a Method of Inquiry Language and Informal Logic Lexis-Based Approach to Language Applied Linguistics Critical/Textual Analysis and Interpretation 1 http://www.qsm.ac.il/mrakez/asdarat/jamiea/7/AliJabareen-final.pdf 7 Developing and Deploying Multiple Cognitive Models Modes of Discourse Logical Fallacies Informal Fallacies Cognitive and Memory Biases Content Analysis Critical Discourse Analysis Critical Theory Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Inference Interdisciplinary Readings In English For Academic Purposes: Levels 1-3: Political Science, Intelligence Analysis, Critical Security And Terrorism Studies ________________________________________________________________________________________ Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word, written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us of a Secret. The rule is simple: Suspect, only suspect. You can read subtexts even in a traffic sign that says, “No littering.” I had a strict rule, which I think the secret services follow too: No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them . ---Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum This course in academic reading and writing in English (English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is organized first thematically (with an emphasis on theory) and then by genre and the rhetorical modes and models. It includes various types of academic writing including, inter alia, abstracts, book chapters, proposals, theses, and articles based on empirical as well as qualitative research. The readings packages also includes course outlines, syllabi, and program descriptions from universities in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Thus, students students can be expected to learn something of the institutional norms and practices and the manner in which essential concepts are developed and defined. The general purpose of the series of courses outlined below is primarily reading comprehension, both in the disciplines and across knowledge domains. The readings were selected on the basis of (1) their relevance to the Palestinian situation, (2) the extent to which they can provide insight into the nature of interdisciplinary practices, (3) the degree to which they represent current research in the disciplines involved, (4) to whatever extent possible, their contributions to modern political discourse. There are several, specialized versions of this series of courses, all of which may be developed into “content courses” in multiple disciplinary frameworks. One involves an emphasis on Critical Discourse Analysis applied to source material generated by stakeholders in the Israeli Occupation and the Palestinian resistance movements: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SAMPLE READINGS: ON-LINE AND ON PRINT RESERVE NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH, Language and Power. New York: Longman, 2001. Introduction: critical language study; Discourse as social practice; Discourse and power; Discourse, common sense and ideology TEUN A. VAN DIJK, Ideology and Discourse: A Multidisciplinary Introduction [http://www.discourses.org/OldBooks/Teun%20A%20van%20Dijk%20-%20Ideology%20and%20Discourse.pdf] Defining Ideology; Ideology as Social Cognition;The Structure of Ideologies ANNELIES MOORS, Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context. Also, see review of Review by Samira Quraishy at https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/media-review/book-review/1639-a-discourse-on-domination-in-mandate-palestine-imperialism-property-and- insurgency. ANAHEED AL-HARDAN, Decolonizing Research on Palestinians: Towards Critical Epistemologies and Research Practices. Qualitative Inquiry, January 2014; vol. 20: pp. 61-71 8 ANNELIES MOORS, Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context. Also, see review of Review by Samira Quraishy at [https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/media-review/book-review/1639-a-discourse-on-domination-in-mandate-palestine-imperialism-property-and- insurgency.] ANAHEED AL-HARDAN, Decolonizing Research on Palestinians: Towards Critical Epistemologies and Research Practices. Qualitative Inquiry, January 2014; vol. 20: pp. 61-71 B. B. COSKUN, History Writing and Securitization of the Other: the Construction and Reconstruction of Palestinian and Israeli Security Discourses. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 23(2), 2010, 281-298. SEAN F. MCMAHON, Ed. The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations: Persistent Analytics and Practices. Routledge, 2009. SIMON ROY, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in us Public Discourse: Legitimizing Dissent. Journal of Palestine Studies, 39(2) 2010, 23-38. HILLEL. COHEN, Society-Military Relations in a State-in-the-Making: Palestinian Security Agencies and the "Treason Discourse" in the Second Intifada. Armed Forces & Society, 38(3), 2012, 463-485. DAVID COUZENS HOY, Critical Resistance : From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique. Another involves the emerging discipline of “cultural intelligence” and “cultural security,” as defined by Erik Nemeth. Given the emerging threat of ISIL to the antiquities of the Levant and the Zionist colonization of Palestine’s material culture, its sacred and secular past, I have included suggested readings for a proposed symposium, “Blood Antiquities: Cultural Heritage, Intelligence, and Critical Security Studies” BLOOD ANTIQUITIES: CULTURAL HERITAGE, INTELLIGENCE, AND CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES SALAH H. AL-HOUDALIEH, Political crisis and Palestine's cultural heritage. _____, Palestinian antiquities looters, their skill development, methodology and specialised terminology. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, (2012)vol. 144, no. 2, p. 115-127 _____, Archaeological Heritage and Spiritual Protection: Looting and the Jinn in Palestine - Vol 25, No 1 (2012) Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology _____, Jinn in Palestine. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 25.1: 99-120. _____, 2012: The Attitudes of Palestinian Religious Scholars and Institutions toward the Looting of Palestine's Archaeological Heritage. Present Pasts journal 4 (1): 22-30. _____, 2013 Toward a Code of Ethics for Archaeological Practice in the Occupied Palestinian National Territories. Liber Annuus 63: 395-413. _____, 2013: Physical hazards encountered by antiquities looters: A case study from the Palestinian National Territories. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 145 (4): 320-333. A third alternative may emphasis the epistemic aspects of Intelligence, and Critical Security Studies. Exemplars , or models, include the following: SUGGESTED TOPICS LIST, APPLICABLE TO ALL LEVELS AND SECTIONS Archaeology, Intelligence, and Cultural Security Art and Cultural Security Cultural Heritage, Intelligence, and Critical Security Studies: “Blood Art and Antiquities” Conflict, Colonization, and Critical Thinking and Critical Discourse Analysis and Intelligence Critial Terrorism Studies Critical Resistance Discursive Formations and Practices in Contemporary Conflict Studies Illicit antiquities and Narcotics Trade 9 Information, Information Systems and Cyber Warfare Intellgence, Journalism, and Social Media Intelligence and Critical Discourse Analysis Intelligence as an Academic Discipline and the Professionalization of Intelligence Analysis Interrogation and Torture in Theory, Policy, and Practice Multi-disciplinary and Interdisciplinary approaches to Terrorism Studies Open-Source (OSINT) Intelligence Psychological and Sociological Approaches to Security Studies and Intelligence Religion and Threat Perception Security and the Media Security, Environment, and Economics Social Networks in Intelligence Gathering Terrorism/ Counterterrorism The History of State and Regional Security Practices and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean The Organizational Structure and Institutional Culture of Intelligence Agencies SELECTED KEY WORDS [CONTROLLED, OR STANDARDIZED VOCABULARY] USED IN DATABASE SEARCHES2 Academia Antithetical Writing Biopolitics Critical Security Studies Cultural Intelligence Cultural Security Discursive Framing Epistemic Authority Epistemic Coloniality Epistemic Communities Epistemic Hierarchies Epistemic Location Epistemic Relevance Epistemic Stance Epistemic Violence Ethnography Globalization Of Education Higher Education Inter/Subjectivity Intorcultural Negotiation Knowledge-Claims Legitimization Strategies Literary Journalism Management Of Knowledge Oppositional Practices Performativity Political Tourism Postcolonial Archaeology 2 These words and phrases represent a general consensus within and across disciplines [see “Searching Article Databases,” University of Illinois Libraries for further information: available on line at [http://www.library.uiuc.edu/bix/pdf/genguide/searchtips.pdf] In bibliographical databases, a brief list of keywords, selected by the author, generally appear just after the abstract, if abstracts are provided, or just after the “preferred citation.” 10 Postcolonial Tourim Resistance Theory [Critical] Security Studies I. CURRICULUM OVERVIEW o Aggregated Competencies  English-based Academic, Information, and Critical Literacies  Language and Logic  Lexis-Based Approach to Language  Applied Linguistics  Critical/Textual Analysis and Interpretation  Developing and Deploying Multiple Cognitive Models  Modes of Discourse  Logical Fallacies o Formal Fallacies/Non-Sequitur o Informal Fallacies  Cognitive and Memory Biases  Content Analysis  Critical Discourse Analysis  Critical Theory  Socio/Psycho and Forensic Linguistics  Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Inference  Methods or Modes of Inquiry o Text Typologies and Genre Analysis  Periodicals (General Readership)  Bibliographies  Enumerative  Annotated  Abstracts and Chapter Summaries (Academic), Executive Summaries  Print-based and Web-based Sources of Information  Publications of Think Tanks and Policy Institutes  Government Documents  White Papers  Published Agency Memoranda  Transcripts of Congressional/Testimony, Proceedings and Debates  Military Orders  Executive Orders  Agency Reports and Statements  Research and Statistical Reports  Scholarly (Journal) Articles  Monographs  NGO Publications o Multi-Media Resources  Audio-Video-Taped Lectures, Speeches, Interviews, Debates, Hearings  Corporate Media/Independent Media  Documentaries † COURSE READINGS o Abstracts only by Topics  Conflict And Colonization

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