240532 SE Anthropologies of Neoliberal State Transformations (P4) (2016S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!
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 Mo 01.02.2016 00:01 to Su 21.02.2016 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Mo 30.05.2016 23:59
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
ATTENTION: changed time!
Monday
30.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
Wednesday
01.06.
09:45 - 13:00
Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
Thursday
02.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
- attendance and participation in class activities and discussions (20%)
- participation in group work and submission of individual notes (in English or German) on group work discussions (30%)
- final essay of 1500-2000 words (in English or German) that reflects on the student’s research interest through an approach discussed in the seminar (50%) Deadline June 24, 2016.
- participation in group work and submission of individual notes (in English or German) on group work discussions (30%)
- final essay of 1500-2000 words (in English or German) that reflects on the student’s research interest through an approach discussed in the seminar (50%) Deadline June 24, 2016.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
Chalfin, Brenda. 2008. Sovereigns and Citizens in Close Encounter: Airport Anthropology and Customs Regimes in Neoliberal Ghana. American Ethnologist 35 (4): 51938.Feldman, Gregory. 2011. Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps Toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance. In Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power, edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright, and Davide Pero, 3249. New York: Berghahn.Ferguson, James, and Akhil Gupta. 2002. Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality. American Ethnologist 29 (4): 9811002.Hilgers, Mathieu. 2012. The Historicity of the Neoliberal State. Social Anthropology 20 (1): 8094.Kalb, Don. 2012.Thinking about Neoliberalism As If the Crisis Was Actually Happening. Social Anthropology 20 (3): 31830.Ong, Aihwa. 2006. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Durham: Duke University Press.Roitman, Janet. 2004. Power Is Not Sovereign: The Pluralisation of Economic Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin. In Privatising the State, edited by Béatrice Hibou. London: Hurst & Company.Sharma, Aradhana. 2008. Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India. Minneapolis: University of Michigan Press.Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2001. The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization. Current Anthropology 42 (1): 12538.
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- are aware of the theoretical and methodological implications of different approaches to neoliberal state transformations
- have an understanding of the theoretical and methodological approaches suitable for addressing the questions that inform their own thesis research