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Seminar
SoSe 23: Ethnography and Political Mobilizations: Debates in Contemporary Political Anthropology
Vinicius Pedro Correia Zanoli & Rubens Mascarenhas Neto
Comments
Political anthropology has traditionally studied the “native point of view” by critically analysing everyday life and examining how subjects experience, interpret and engage in politics to comprehend complex local, national, and transnational processes. This perspective has often pointed to the lack of empirical ground in some political science and political sociology theories.
For some, ethnography, the core of our discipline, is a method. For others, it is more than that: it can be a way of social engagement and liaison that produces knowledge with and about others. For an ever-growing group of sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists, it can be a way of analysing and interpreting social movements and other forms of political mobilisation, producing qualitative knowledge and filling the gaps left by quantitative research. In this seminar, the students will have contact with contemporary political anthropology’s theoretical and methodological contributions, focusing on the use of political ethnography to study political mobilisations within and outside anthropology.
Literature
Escobar, Arturo. 1992. ‘Culture, Practice and Politics: Anthropology and the study of social movements.’ Critique of Anthropology, 12(4).
Gibb, Robert. 2001. ‘Toward and Anthropology of Social Movements.’ Journal des Anthropologues, 85-86.
Goldman, Marcio. 2013. How Democracy Works: An Ethnographic Theory of Politics. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston.
Leach, Edward. 1954. Political Systems of Highland Burma. Norwich: Fletcher and Son.
Nash, June (ed.). 2005. Social movements: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Thoreson, Ryan. 2014. Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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12 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2023-04-17 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-04-24 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-05-08 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-05-15 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-05-22 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-06-05 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-06-12 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-06-19 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-06-26 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-07-03 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-07-10 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2023-07-17 16:00 - 18:00