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240028 VS Political Anthropology: Ethnographies between Capital and Empire (3.3.1) (2023S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 01.02.2023 00:01 to Mo 20.02.2023 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Mo 13.03.2023 23:59
Details
max. 20 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
UPDATE 01.02.2023: Attention, changed dates!
UPDATE 30.06.2023: Attention, changed dates!
- Friday 03.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Friday 17.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
- Friday 31.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Friday 28.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Friday 12.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Friday 09.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 20.06. 08:00 - 11:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Friday 23.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
What can dust storms in China, Bedouin lyric poetry, a “spaceship” in Abu Dhabi, water meters in South Africa, and schooling in San Francisco teach us about politics and political life? From villages to nation-states, from political parties to revolutionary struggle, from elections to social movements, and working across race, class, gender, and religion—this course operates with a sense of “the political” that includes yet far exceeds state administration, party politics, and elections. It offers an overview of political anthropology, with a focus on the detailed study of specific ethnographic texts. We will consider political anthropology’s complex entanglements with colonial history, postcolonial politics, capitalist modernity, and ongoing projects—epistemic and material—of abolition and decolonization.
Assessment and permitted materials
The course requires students to read each session’s assigned readings; reflect on the readings in the form of one response paper per session; make one group presentation; and participate actively in in-class discussion.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Response papers: 50%
Group presentation: 20%
Participation in class discussion: 30%91-100 points: 1 (excellent)
81-90 points: 2 (good)
71-80 points: 3 (satisfactory)
61-70 points: 4 (sufficient)To complete the course, students need to obtain at least 61 points.
Group presentation: 20%
Participation in class discussion: 30%91-100 points: 1 (excellent)
81-90 points: 2 (good)
71-80 points: 3 (satisfactory)
61-70 points: 4 (sufficient)To complete the course, students need to obtain at least 61 points.
Examination topics
The course does not require an exam.
Reading list
(Selected - full syllabus on first day of class)Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. University of California Press.Anand, Nikhil. 2017. Hydraulic Citizenship: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Duke University Press.Ballestero, Andrea. 2019. A Future History of Water. Duke University Press.Chatterjee, Partha. 2004. The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. Columbia University Press.Ferguson, James. 1994. The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. University of Minnesota Press.Ferguson, James and Tania Murray Li. 2018. “Beyond the ‘Proper Job’: Political-Economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man.” PLAAS, UWC: Cape Town, Working Paper 51.Fortes, M. and E.E. Evans-Pritchards. 1940. African Political Systems. Oxford University Press.Gluckman, Max. 1940. “Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand.” Bantu Studies 14(1): 1-30.Günel, Gökçe. 2019. Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi. Duke University Press.Leach, Edmund. 1964. Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure. Berg.Mahmood, Saba. 2005. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton University Press.MacLean, Ken. 2022. Facts in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar. University of California Press.Mezzadra, Sandro. 2011. “Beyond the State, beyond the Desert.” South Atlantic Quarterly 110(4): 989-997.Muehlebach, Andrea. 2012. The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. University of Chicago Press.Nash, June. 1979. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. Columbia University Press.Ong, Aihwa. 2006. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Duke University Press.Ralph, Michael. 2015. Forensics of Capital. University of Chicago Press.Schmitt, Carl. 2007. On the Concept of the Political. University of Chicago Press.Shange, Savannah. 2019. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco. Duke University Press.Spencer, J. 1997. “Post-Colonialism and the Political Imagination.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3(1): 1-19.Vincent, Joan ed. 2002. The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique. Blackwell Publishing.Von Schnitzler, A. 2016. Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid. Princeton University Press.Walker, Andrew. 2012. Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy. University of Wisconsin Press.Zee, Jerry. 2022. Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System. University of California Press.
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