NOC:Introduction to Political Ideologies: Contexts, Ideas and Practices

Lecture 1 - Fascism Introduction and Main Ideas

Lecture 2 - Fascism - problems. The Hindu right and Nazism

Lecture 3 - Ordinary people's part in fascism. A worked example

Lecture 4 - Background and forms of conservatism

Lecture 5 - Main ideas and main problems in conservatism

Lecture 6 - Short recap. Politics in a conservative society. India survey evidence

Lecture 7 - Worked example

Lecture 8 - Introduction. Main ideas with examples

Lecture 9 - Forms of the liberal state

Lecture 10 - Forms of liberalism

Lecture 11 - Multiculturalism

Lecture 12 - Main problems in liberalism

Lecture 13 - Return to editingBiography. Main concepts lecture 1

Lecture 14 - Marx main concepts lecture 2

Lecture 15 - Contradictions, cyclical crises in capitalism. Problems in Marx

Lecture 16 - Marx - worked examples older and current

Lecture 17 - Historical background; global appeal, recent revival; Catalonia; Occupy

Lecture 18 - Anarchism main ideas and examples. The Mondragón Corporation

Lecture 19 - Mutualism; syndicalism; anarchocapitalism

Lecture 20 - Evaluating anarchism - debates and examples

Lecture 21 - Intro, historical background leading to the present

Lecture 22 - Feminism - main concepts, with examples

Lecture 23 - Feminism and other ideologies

Lecture 24 - Intersectionality and Intersectionality - worked examples

Lecture 25 - Human environmental impact and forms of response. Ecological concepts. Examples and selected consequences

Lecture 26 - Ecologism - main concepts, with examples

Lecture 27 - Ecologism and politics

Lecture 28 - Ecologism today. Conceptual problems - the idea of nature. Natural capital - worked example

Lecture 29 - Poststructuralism; Derrida and Foucault; background and explanation. Political engagement

Lecture 30 - Postmodernism; challenge to and contrast with modernism; wide impact. Postmodern theory. Criticisms. The Sokal Hoax

Lecture 31 - Recap on problems in Derrida and Foucault. Postmodernist theory. Worked example 1

Lecture 32 - Postsructuralism and postmodernism worked examples 2 and 3

Lecture 33 - Definitions. Theocracy - main themes, main problems, with examples

Lecture 34 - Fundamentalism - contexts for emergence, types of fundamentalism, rejection of modernity, Manichaean vision. Problems

Lecture 35 - Worked examples

Lecture 36 - Definitions - technocracy and managerialism. Outline of technocracy - long history. Main problems - examples. Plato's analogy

Lecture 37 - Managerialism - self-conception; efficiency; claim to expertise; problems and failures - conceptual and empirical; examples

Lecture 38 - Technocracy and managerialism - worked examples

Lecture 39 - Nationalism - introduction

Lecture 40 - Nationalism - main themes. The nation; community or organic community; self-determination; identity

Lecture 41 - Identity politics. Forms of nationalism. Nationalism and colonialism

Lecture 42 - Nationalism - conceptual problems. Brexit

Lecture 43 - Worked examples

Lecture 44 - Republicanism and Citizenship Introduction

Lecture 45 - Citizenship as substantive membership of the polity

Lecture 46 - Republicanism and Citizenship problems and conclusion. Worked examples