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240515 SE Anthropology of Remoteness (P4) (2021W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
VOR-ORT

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.
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Details

max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Update 12.01.2022: Due to the current situation the course will be held digital until the end of the semester.
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If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.

  • Montag 11.10. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 25.10. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 08.11. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Montag 13.12. 11:30 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 10.01. 11:30 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 24.01. 11:30 - 14:45 Digital

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The main goal of the course is to introduce students to anthropological engagements with spatial and social remoteness. In anthropology, the concept of remoteness has various social implications, ranging from core-periphery relations to marginality to political autonomy (such as 'Zomia' as used by James Scott). Topics such as connectivity/disconnectedness, distance from the centers of power, commerce, and services, emptiness, and the concept of frontier, as well as social, cultural and political alternative spaces will be discussed. They should provide a corrective to the recent anthropological focus on the urban and non-rural areas by drawing on ethnographic cases studies from sparsely populated, hardly accessible and geographically extreme regions of the world (the Arctic and circumpolar North among them). In addition to anthropological publications, we will review contributions by geography as a discipline focused on the spatial dimensions of human existence, demography and development studies, as well as by rural studies and other disciplines relevant for discussing social marginality and the center/periphery dichotomy. The course will have seminar character, meaning that student input and feedback will be central.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

A mandatory seminar paper will count for 50% (which equal 50 points) of the grade. The rest of the grade will be determined by short oral presentations and written handouts, as well as by course participation.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

In order to receive a passing grade, you need at least 60 points. A 'sehr gut' requires at least 90 out of 100 points (a 'gut' at least 80 points, etc.). Attendance is required throughout the semester.
90-100 points = sehr gut (1)
80-89 points = gut (2)
70-79 points = befriedigend (3)
60-69 points = genügend (4)
less than 60 points = nicht genügend (5)

Prüfungsstoff

There will be no exams.

Literatur

Ardener, Edwin2012 [1987] Remote Areas: Some Theoretical Considerations. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2(1): 519-533.Behrens, K. et al.2005 Is Remoteness a Locational Disadvantage? Journal of Economic Geography 6(3): 347-368.Cleary, D.1993 After the Frontier: Problems with Political Economy in the Modern Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Latin American Studies 25: 331-349.Cloke, P.J.1985 Whither Rural Studies? Journal of Rural Studies 1(1): 1-9.Coates, Kenneth1994 The Discovery of the North: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Northern/Remote Regions. The Northern Review (12-13): 15-43.Dzenovska, Dace2018 Emptiness and Its Futures: Staying and Leaving as Tactics of Life in Latvia. Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (80): 16-29.Faulkner, H.W. and S. French1983 Geographic Remoteness: Conceptual and Measurement Problems. Bureau of Transport Economics, Reference Paper No 54.Hacquebord, L., & Avango, D.2009 Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region. Arctic Anthropology 46: 25-39.Harms, Erik, Shafqat Hussain, and Sara Shneiderman2014 Remote and Edgy: New Takes on Old Anthropological Themes. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4(1): 361-381.Hastrup, Frieda, and Marianne Elisabeth Lien2020 Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 29(1): v-xxi.Holmes, J.H.2009 Rethinking Remoteness. Geographical Research 47(3): 331-333.Huskey, Lee2005 Challenges to Economic Development: Dimensions of "Remoteness" in the North. Polar Geography 29(2): 119-125.2006 Limits to Growth: Remote Regions, Remote Institutions. The Annals of Regional Science 40(1): 147-155.Huskey, Lee, and Thomas A. Morehouse1992 Development in Remote Regions: What Do we Know? Arctic 45(2): 128-137.Hussain, Shafqat2017 Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Kopytoff, I.1987 The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Kuklina, Vera, and Edward C. Holland2017 The Roads of the Sayan Mountains: Theorizing Remoteness in Eastern Siberia. Geoforum 88: 36-44.Markey, S., Manson, D. & George, P.2007 The (Dis?)Connected North: Persistent Regionalism in Northern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Regional Science/Revue canadienne des sciences régionales 1(XXX): 57-78.Rippa, Alessandro2019 Zomia 2.0: Branding Remoteness and Neoliberal Connectivity in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, Laos. Social Anthropology 27(2): 253-269.Salazar, Noel B.2013 Imagining Mobility at the "End of the World". History and Anthropology 24(2): 233-252.Saxer, Martin2016 Pathways: A Concept, Field Site and Methodological Approach to Study Remoteness and Connectivity. HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 36(2): 104-119.Saxer, Martin, Alessandro Rippa, and Alexander Horstmann2018 Introduction. In Asian Borderlands in a Global Perspective. A. Horstmann, M. Saxer, and A. Rippa, eds. Pp. 1-14. New York: Routledge.Scott, James C.2009 The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Shubin, Sergei2006 The Changing Nature of Rurality and Rural Studies in Russia. Journal of Rural Studies 22: 422-440.Tsing, Anna1994 From the Margins. Cultural Anthropology 9(3): 279-297.2003 Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers. Economic and Political Weekly 38(48): 5100-5106.Turner, F. J.2010 [1920] The Frontier in American History. New York: Courier.Viazzo, Pier Paolo, and Roberta Clara Zanini2014 ‘Taking Advantage of Emptiness’? Anthropological Perspectives on Mountain Repopulation and Spaces of Cultural Creativity in the Alpine Area. Journal of Alpine Research/Revue de géographie alpine 102(3): 1-11.Wellhofer, E.S.1989 Core and Periphery: Territorial Dimensions in Politics. Urban Studies 26(3): 340-355.

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Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:21