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240522 SE Politics and Policies of Consumption (P4) (2022W)

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

If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.

  • Dienstag 04.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 11.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 18.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 25.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 08.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 15.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 22.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 29.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 06.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 13.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 10.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 17.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 24.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 31.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course will focus on consumption as the field of politics and contestation by different actors. Attending to the material dimension of politics, the seminar will explore how consumption has been shaped by the state through its politics and policies within different nation-building and state-development projects and in pursuit of diverse ideological programs. In particular, it will trace how consumption is implicated in constructing national identities and citizenship. We will also specifically address the theme of regulatory regimes of production and consumption which, along with states, involve international institutional actors. On the other hand, the course will also explore the issue of consumer politics in its different forms and investigate how consumption practices emerge as an arena of political action, especially, in the context of the ascendence of non-institutionalized politics. For instance, we will discuss the themes of ethical consumption, boycotts and buycotts, and other consumer movements. The seminar will tackle the interrelation between consumption, political engagement, subjectivities, state, and citizenship. The course will draw on interdisciplinary literature from anthropology, sociology, history, and political science and will bring studies from different world regions.
Each session will be dedicated to reading and discussing texts on a specific topic. Along with getting acquainted with the field of politics of consumption, students will acquire knowledge on different forms and scales of politics and political action as well as on the material dimension of politics. They will gain insights into the social dimension of policies, their enactment and their effects. Students will acquire understanding of anthropological strategies for studying policies and consumption as well as interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The course is based on the active participation of students in class, work with the readings, which includes introducing one of the seminar sessions (in the form of an oral presentation) and formulating questions to the texts (shared in advance before each session on Moodle), and preparation of a written assignment (the final paper).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students will be assessed based on the combination of their participation in class activities, oral presentations, work with texts, and written work.
Active participation in the activities and discussions in class will contribute 20%.
The student will be expected to formulate questions that engage with assigned texts one day before each session via Moodle, which will comprise 15% of the final grade.
Each student will make one oral presentation introducing the topic and texts for one of the seminars, which will contribute 25% to the grade. The presentation is expected to summarize the readings and demonstrate the ability to engage with them substantively and critically by posing questions to their core arguments, methodology, and implications.
The final paper (of approx. 3000 words) will have to focus on a relevant topic (a case) of student choice and engage with the literature discussed in class. It will contribute 40% to the final grade.

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

The list of readings will include (but not limited to):

Daunton, Martin, and Matthew Hilton. 2001. “Material Politics: An Introduction.” In The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America, edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton, 1–32. Bloomsbury Academic.
Miller, Daniel, ed. 1995. Acknowledging Consumption. London ; New York: Routledge.
Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 1996. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past. Beacon Press.
Cohen, Lizabeth. 2003. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Vintage Books. (excerpts)
Mort, Frank. 2006. “Competing Domains: Democratic Subjects and Consuming Subjects in Britain and the United States since 1945.” In The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World, edited by Frank Trentmann, 225–48. Oxford ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Trentmann, Frank. 2007. “Citizenship and Consumption.” Journal of Consumer Culture 7 (2): 147–58.
Berdahl, Daphne. 2005. “The Spirit of Capitalism and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Post-Wall Germany.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 47 (2): 235–51.
Fehérváry, Krisztina. 2009. “Goods and States: The Political Logic of State-Socialist Material Culture.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 51 (02): 426–59.
Gille, Zsuzsa. 2011. “The Hungarian Foie Gras Boycott: Struggles for Moral Sovereignty in Postsocialist Europe.” East European Politics and Societies 25 (1): 114–28.
Dunn, Elizabeth. 2003. “Trojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety Regulation.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 35 (8): 1493–1511.
Dunn, Elizabeth. 2008. “Postsocialist Spores: Disease, Bodies, and the State in the Republic of Georgia.” American Ethnologist 35 (2): 243–58.
Foster, Robert J. 1999. “The Commercial Construction of ‘New Nations.’” Journal of Material Culture 4 (3): 263–82.
Wilk, Richard. 1994. “Consumer Goods as Dialogue about Development.” Culture and History, no. 7: 79–100.
Carrier, James, and Peter G. Luetchford. 2012. Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. Berghahn Books.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 03.10.2022 14:50