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240043 VS "Peasants" in globalization: anthropological perspectives (3.3.1) (2015W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!
Obligatory preparations for the first session:
A) Before doing the warm-up research: What is your perspective on the topic "'peasants' in globalization"? What is your take on the 'peasantry'? What is your personal interest in this topic? Write down what comes to your mind. The aim of this exercise is to become aware of your own prior knowledge on this issue. It is not about right or wrong, but instead about exploring the point of departure from which you will enter into an active dialogue with the literature of this course. 0,5 to 1 standard pages, Times New Roman, 12pt, 1,5 space. Print and bring your text to our first session, don't forget name and e-mail.
B) Warm-up research:
- Who is working on the same topic or similar ones at our department? (Whom can I ask for advice?)
- 1 current newspaper article on the topic (How are issues concerning the topic of our course discussed in the public?)
- 2 titles of journals with articles on the topic (Where can I look for anthropological texts on this issue?)
- 3 names of anthropologists in this field of research (Who was/is doing research on this topic?)
Print and bring the results of your research to our first session.
Obligatory preparations for the first session:
A) Before doing the warm-up research: What is your perspective on the topic "'peasants' in globalization"? What is your take on the 'peasantry'? What is your personal interest in this topic? Write down what comes to your mind. The aim of this exercise is to become aware of your own prior knowledge on this issue. It is not about right or wrong, but instead about exploring the point of departure from which you will enter into an active dialogue with the literature of this course. 0,5 to 1 standard pages, Times New Roman, 12pt, 1,5 space. Print and bring your text to our first session, don't forget name and e-mail.
B) Warm-up research:
- Who is working on the same topic or similar ones at our department? (Whom can I ask for advice?)
- 1 current newspaper article on the topic (How are issues concerning the topic of our course discussed in the public?)
- 2 titles of journals with articles on the topic (Where can I look for anthropological texts on this issue?)
- 3 names of anthropologists in this field of research (Who was/is doing research on this topic?)
Print and bring the results of your research to our first session.
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 Tu 01.09.2015 00:01 to Su 27.09.2015 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 18.10.2015 23:59
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 06.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 13.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 20.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 27.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 03.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 10.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 17.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 24.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 01.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 15.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 12.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 19.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Tuesday 26.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
'Peasants' have been and are still a surface for projecting ideas and practices for actors in different positions. In this course we ask how the 'peasantry' was and is defined, essentialized, de- and reconstructed in cultural and social anthropological writings. Why is rural poverty once understood as an economic problem to be solved and once celebrated as cultural difference? Why did anthropological perspectives shift from a one-sided focus on 'peasants' and production to an equally one-sided focus on the consumption of food through well-off urbanites? Classic texts about peasant society, culture and economy, as well as Marxist perspectives, moral economy and weapons of the weak as everyday forms of resistance serving as a backdrop, current discussions about the end or the reemergence of the peasantry in transnational movements, the rhetorical figure of the 'peasant' in politics, land grabbing, seeds and food sovereignty as well as local food and alternative food networks take center stage.
Assessment and permitted materials
1) Regular participation (especially actively reading and discussing the reading assignments, about two articles each session)
2) Regular discussion papers concerning the reading assignments (0,5 to 1 page per article, deadline is always on Sundays, 11:59 p.m., before the concerning discussion sessions)
3) Concluding literature review (5 to 7 pages, first deadline is ahead of the presentation session, final handover after improvements: Sunday, 15 February, 2015, 11:59 p.m.)Minimum requirement for passing the course is regular preparation and participation as well as writing the regular discussion papers and the final literature review in fulfillment of the requirements of the lecturer. Attendance is obligatory, maximum of two authorized absences.Each subtask is graded separately. Participation in class accounts for 20% of the final grade, the discussion papers and the final literature review account for 40% each.
2) Regular discussion papers concerning the reading assignments (0,5 to 1 page per article, deadline is always on Sundays, 11:59 p.m., before the concerning discussion sessions)
3) Concluding literature review (5 to 7 pages, first deadline is ahead of the presentation session, final handover after improvements: Sunday, 15 February, 2015, 11:59 p.m.)Minimum requirement for passing the course is regular preparation and participation as well as writing the regular discussion papers and the final literature review in fulfillment of the requirements of the lecturer. Attendance is obligatory, maximum of two authorized absences.Each subtask is graded separately. Participation in class accounts for 20% of the final grade, the discussion papers and the final literature review account for 40% each.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
In this course students intensively practice active reading and discussing texts, as well as writing discussion papers and a literature review. By the end of the term students know important texts on the topic of "'peasants' in globalization" as well as the present state of the art of the discussions about this in cultural and social anthropology. They have started to figure out their own perspectives on these texts. They can now follow discussions in this special field and are able to deepen their understanding of the field based on the overview they gained and are ready to begin to develop their own research questions.
Examination topics
Reading of assigned texts; writing of short discussion papers on the reading assignments; partner and group exercises dealing with the seminar literature; inputs by lecturer; discussion in plena; writing a literature review; reading and discussing literature reviews of classmates.
Reading list
Brass, Tom
2015 Peasants, academics, populists: Forward to the past? Critique of Anthropology 35(2): 187204.Edelman, Marc
2013 What is a peasant? What are peasantries? A briefing paper on issues of definition. Paper prepared for the first session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, Geneva, 15-19 July 2013.Kearney, Michael
1996 Reconceptualizing the peasantry: Anthropology in global perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview.Further seminar literature will be announced at the introductory session.
2015 Peasants, academics, populists: Forward to the past? Critique of Anthropology 35(2): 187204.Edelman, Marc
2013 What is a peasant? What are peasantries? A briefing paper on issues of definition. Paper prepared for the first session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, Geneva, 15-19 July 2013.Kearney, Michael
1996 Reconceptualizing the peasantry: Anthropology in global perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview.Further seminar literature will be announced at the introductory session.
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