240007 VO Anthropology of Organisations and Bureaucracy (2022W)

In order to pass this course students must be able to engage critically with key issues concerning bureaucratic institutions: for instance accountability, transparency, efficiency, trust. They should be able to explain mechanisms governing institutions (e.g. power relations, moral economy, affect, the rule of experts etc.). They should be familiar with the history of modern bureaucratic institutions as well as the local and global contexts shaping them. Students should be able to link studies of organisations with the key debates taking place in social sciences, especially anthropology (for instance, those concerning state, democracy, imperialism, post-socialism, modernity, nationalism, development, poverty). Students should also be able to discuss methodological issues linked to organizational studies, be familiar with methods that facilitate such studies and discuss both thrir prons and cons. Students should be able to discuss those issues by supporting theory with evidence from diverse range of organizations and by bringing examples from different regions.