Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von PhD Adrià Alcoverro

Lehrveranstaltungen

Werte 4: The extreme right within the liberal nation state (Übung)

Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 18:15 - 21:45 | 20.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 12.013 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This course was taught through three consecutive terms (2023-25) in the Faculty of Political Science at Leuphana University. This coursea adresses not really the origins of the extreme right rather to understand how the contradictions within the problematic formation of the nation-state relate to the emergence of the extreme right. The argument is that the different ideological inspirations that have shaped the different forms of extreme right, despite of sharing often an irrational and anti-enlightenment ethos,they as well relateto dynamics that shaped the formation of the liberal nation-state and also steered the establishment of capitalism within a liberal democratic order which had in identity building a central part of these processes. In this way, the extreme right should not be considered just as a sort of cyclical foreign virus that threatens the liberal democratic order in times of crisis rather a permanent threat that strategically lures in shared societal imaginaries well entrenched in our societies. The course will analyse this problematic through time with a special focus in the political present. The questions that the course will cover then are: - The problematic formation of the nation-state and the question of congurence - Thre problematic translation of the nation-state congruence juridically in relation to the Human Rights -Techno-centrism, de-politicisation and de-humanisation from the colonial period until today - Essentialism and Interwar Period fascism - Microfascism and today's antifeminist reaction

Lehren und Lernen - Leuphana Semester - Transformation
Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Transformation
Sozialpädagogik/Wirtschaftspädagogik - Leuphana Semester - Transformation

Werte 9: Competition and timelessness. A critique of present day capitalism through cinema (Übung)

Dozent/in: Adrià Alcoverro

Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 18:15 - 21:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 12.101 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Our political present is shaped by rush and immediateness combined with uncertainty. This particular moment of the history of capitalism in which the concatenation of crisis and the subsequent austerity policies decades of policy action have turned precarity into a living condition shaped by fear and helplessness of large societal portions with the absence of any notion of a shared transcendence and the certainty of societies shaped by an endless competition and atomisation. This rather abstract notion of competition in a de-historicised present is very vivid in many of the cultural productions of today and from the past. This course wants to critically adress this matter through cinema by focusing in the following themes: 1. Connectivity and solitude 2. Opulence, totalising consumerism coexisting with precarity 3. Totalising competition and the rise of antihumanism 4. The historic foundations of the present as a contradictory constitutive moment

Lehren und Lernen - Leuphana Semester - Transformation
Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Transformation
Sozialpädagogik/Wirtschaftspädagogik - Leuphana Semester - Transformation

The extreme right within the liberal nation state (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Adrià Alcoverro

Termin:
14-täglich | Montag | 16:30 - 20:00 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 14.202 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This course addresses not really the origins of the extreme right rather to understand how the contradictions within the problematic formation of the nation-state relate to the emergence of the extreme right. The argument is that the different ideological inspirations that have shaped the different forms of extreme right, despite of sharing often an irrational and anti-enlightenment ethos, they as well relate to dynamics that shaped the formation of the liberal nation-state and also steered the establishment of capitalism within a liberal democratic order which had in identity building a central part of this processes. This argument is not assuming determinism that would trace a causal relation between these complex historic processes and the rise of the extreme right in the present and past in Europe, rather to acknowledge the depth of the roots of the extreme right in European political history. In this way, the extreme right should not be considered just as a sort of cyclical foreign virus that threatens the liberal democratic order in times of crisis rather a permanent thread that strategically lures in shared societal imaginaries well entrenched in our societies. The democratic anti-authoritarian answer to the extreme right, often has treated the extreme right as something exogenous. Such approach downplays the importance of problematic albeit central concepts that shaped Western political order such as collective identity or nation-state. The extreme right fills these concepts with essentialist and reactionary content in times of uncertainty. Instead of historically surpass these concepts in the light of a post-national and de-territorialized global identity, the course will critically approach them uniting past and present to open the possibility of a progressive and emancipatory re-discussion of those as an answer to the present rise of the extreme right.

The limits of comparing: Problematizing comparative politics in its politico-economic context (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Adrià Alcoverro

Inhalt: The main idea of this course is to problematise the notion of comparison in political science. Comparison is a very strong subfield in political science that has been pivotal in the development of the discipline. Its holistic take, often employing institutionalized politics as an object of analysis, allows the categorization different institutional orders by the means of comparison to produce rich descriptions as well as concepts. Nonetheless, comparative politics operates within a given order of things, meaning that the larger politico-economic context in which comparison occurs is presented in a static form and normally it is not part of the object of analysis. For that reason, the changes in the larger politico economic order and the influence that these might have in liberal democratic institutions are not fully addressed. At the same time, the political movements and events occurring outside the realm of institutional politics in civil society are often neglected. Also forms of informal political relations entrenched within liberal democratic institutional orders, such as clientelism in different forms, are frequently not grasped. Still, comparative politics has undergone important theoretical and normative transformations proving its capacity to introduce critical approaches. This course points towards this direction in an attempt to comprehend the political in an increasingly complex world.