History Of The State

Objectives

The objective of the program is for the students to  a) understand the historical formation of the State and the Nation State in the history of Europe and Portugal from different disciplinary perspectives (sociological, anthropological and historiographical ones); b) analyze the role of the State in the genesis of modernity; c) evaluate the challenges faced by contemporary states in relation to transnationality and globalization; d) Identify processes of “state building” in different moments of the European and Portuguese history (states (?) in the Modern era, liberal states, authoritarian states, totalitarian states, democratic states); e) understand the historical genesis of the tensions between Nation State, nationalism, citizenship and human rights; f) be able to evaluate these tensions in the contemporary world. It is also the aim of the program to help the students to get skills in the domain of the research work, as well as skills related with the organization and the oral and written exposition of knowledge.

General characterization

Code

27129

Credits

4

Responsible teacher

Ana Cristina Fonseca Nogueira da Silva

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

A.A.V.V., Genèse de L’ètat Moderne, Bilans et perspectives, Paris, CNRS, 1990; Airton Cerqueira-Leite Seelaender, “A «Polícia« e as funções do Estado – Notas sobre a “Polícia” do Antigo Regime”, Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFPR (Universidade Federal do Paraná), nº 49, 2009; Cristina Nogueira da Silva, O Modelo Espacial do Estado Moderno, Reorganização Territorial em Portugal nos Finais do Antigo Regime, Lisboa, Editorial Estampa, 1998; António Barreto e Maria Filomena Mónica (coords.), Dicionário de História de Portugal, Lisboa, Figueirinhas, 1999; António Manuel Hespanha, Poder e Instituições na Europa do Antigo Regime, Guia de Estudos, Lisboa, Ed. Cosmos,1992; Aradhana Sharma, ed., The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Blackwell, 2006; Carlos Garriga, «Orden jurídico y poder político en el Antiguo Régimen», Istor. Revista de Historia Internacional, 16 (2003) pp. 13-44; Cristina Nogueira da Silva, A Construção jurídica dos territórios ultramarinos portugueses no século XIX, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2017, pp. 13-38; Diego Palacios Cerezales, Portugal à coronhada. Protesto popular e ordem pública nos séculos XIX e XX, Lisboa, Tinta-da-China, 2011; Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira, Rebeldes e Insubmissos. Resistências Populares ao Liberalismo (1834-1844), Porto, Afrontamento, 2008; Fernando Catroga, A Geografia dos Afectos Pátrios, Lisboa, Almedina, 2016; Fernando Dores Costa, “Milícia e Sociedade”, Nova História Militar de Portugal (dir. Manuel Themudo Barata e Nuno Severiano Teixeira), Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2004; George Orwell, 1984, Lisboa, Antígona, 2007; Hagen Schulze, Estado e Nação na História da Europa, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1997; James C. Scott, Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts, London, Yale University Press, 190; José Sobral, “A formação das nações e o nacionalismo: os paradigmas explicativos e o caso português”, Análise Social, vol. XXXVII (165), 2003, pp. 1093-1126; José Manuel Sobral, Jorge Vala (orgs.), Identidade Nacional: inclusão e exclusão social, Lisboa, ICS, 2010; José Subtil, “O Direito de Polícia nas Vésperas do Estado Liberal em Portugal”, in As Formas do Direito, Ordem, Razão e Decisão, Experiências Jurídicas antes e depois da Modernidade, coord. Ricardo Marcelo Fonseca, Curitiba, Juruá Editora, 2013, pp. 275-332; Juan J. Linz, Autoritarismo e Democracia, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2015; Jürgen Habermas, obras escolhidas, Lisboa, Ed. 70, 2015; Luís Reis Torgal, Estados Novos, Estado Novo, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2009; Manuel de Lucena, O Sistema Corporativo Português, Lisboa, Perspectivas e Realidades, 1976; Miriam Halpern Pereira, «As origens do Estado Providência em Portugal», Ler História, n.º 37, 1999, pp. 45-63; Nuno Camarinhas, “Administração da Justiça em espaços coloniais. A experiência imperial portuguesa e os seus juízes, na época moderna”, Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, 52, 2016, pp. 109–124; Nuno Monteiro, “O Antigo Regime (século XVIII)”, in Ramos, Monteiro e Vasconcelos, História de Portugal, 2009, parte II, cap. VIII, pp. 379-403; Pedro Almeida Cardim, “Centralização Política e Estado na recente historiografia sobre o Portugal do Antigo Regime”, Nação e Defesa, nº 87, 2ª série, 1998, pp. 129-158; Pedro Tavares de e Branco, Rui, dirs., Burocracia, Estado e Território, Lisboa, Horizonte, 2007; Pedro Tavares de Almeida, Paulo Silveira e Sousa, Do Reino à Administração Interna. História de um Ministério (1736-2012), INCM, 2016;Sally Engle Merry, “Anthropology, Law, and transnational Processes”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 21, 1992;Tiago Pires Marques, Crime e castigo no Liberalismo em Portugal, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2015;Wim Blockmans e Jean Phileppe Genet, Visions sur le Développement des États Européens. Théories et Historiographies de l’État Moderne, Roma, École Française de Rome, 1993.

Teaching method

Classes flow in a seminar regime, thus presupposing the previous reading of the texts suggested by the Professor in charge of the curricular unit. They include the presentation, by students, of the main topics associated to an issue or topic, followed by their discussion. At the beginning as well as at the end of each session the professor makes a synoptic introduction/conclusion of the main issues/topics and the bibliographic references where the students can get more knowledge on them.

Evaluation method

The evaluation carried out is a result of a calibration of each students’ oral presentation and their participation in group discussions during the sessions (50%) and the appreciation of the works written around the themes presented in sessions, in the form of a report on the U.C., whose format is described in a Guião para a elaboração do Relatório final (50%).

 

Students always have the opportunity to do the final exam, in accordance with the evaluation regulations of the  Law School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Subject matter

The confrontation of the curricular unit’s objectives and the contents above described is sufficient to this demonstration. The articulation between objectives and contents is present in a multilevel way, although some of the objectives are more directly related with some content. For instance, content 2 is related to all other contents, insofar as the classical definition of the State and its fundamental elements (content 1) is the base for the discussion of the historical genesis of these elements (contents 4, 5) as well as for the identification of the different ways in which these same elements were shaped in different chronologies (8, 9, 10, 11 and 12). On the other hand, contents 3 and 13 are closely related to the objectives aimed at reflecting on the tensions between the Nation state, nationalism, citizenship and human rights, in the past and in contemporary world, in which those tensions intersect with contemporary phenomena of transnational integration and globalization (objective c, content 3).

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