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Session 1, Thursday 4 Oct, 15:00 18:30 Theoretical foundations, part 1: The ordering state
Required readings:
Weber, Max, 2006 (1968) ‘Bureaucracy’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 49 70.
Scott, James C., 2006 (1998), ‘Cities, People, and Language’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 247 269.
Recommended additional reading:
Li, Tanya M., 2005, ‘Beyond “the State” and Failed Schemes’, American Anthropologist 107(3):383 394.
Session 2, Thursday 11 Oct, 15:00 18:30 Theoretical foundations, part 2: Marxist critique
Required readings:
Gramsci, Antonio, 2006 (1971), ‘State and Civil Society’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 71 111.
Abrams, Phillip, 2006 (1977), ‘Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 112 130.
Recommended additional readings:
Althusser, Louis, 2006 (1971), ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 86 111.
Poulantzas, Nikos, 1978, State, Power Socialism, London: Verso.
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred R., 1940, ‘Preface’, in M. Fortes and E.E. Evans-Pritchard (eds), African Political Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press, xi-xxiii.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 2001, ‘The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind’, Current Anthropology 42(1):125 138.
Session 3, Thursday 20 Dec, 15:00 18:30 Theoretical foundations, part 3: Poststructuralist perspectives
Required readings:
Foucault, Michel, 2006 (1991), ‘Governmentality’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 131 143.
Mitchell, Timothy, 2006 (1999), ‘Society, Economy, and the State Effect’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 169 186.
Session 4, Monday, 7 Jan, 9:45 11:15 The state as a discursive construct
Required reading:
Gupta, Akhil, 2006 (1995), ‘Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State’, in A. Sharma and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 211 242.
Session 5, Thursday, 10 Jan, 15:00 18:30 Ethnography: views from the margins
Required readings:
Das, Veena and Deborah Poole, 2004, ‘State and Its Margins: Comparative Ethnographies’, in V. Das and D. Poole (eds), Anthropology in the Margins of the State, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 3 33.
Das, Veena, 2004, ‘The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility’, in V. Das and D. Poole (eds), Anthropology in the Margins of the State, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 225 252.
Roitman, Janet, 2004, ‘Productivity in the Margins: The Reconstitution of State Power in the Chad Basin’, in V. Das and D. Poole (eds), Anthropology in the Margins of the State, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 191 224.
Session 6, Monday, 14 Jan, 9:45 11:15 ‘A fictional reality’: the state as a fantasy
Required reading:
Aretxaga, Begoña, 2000, ‘A Fictional Reality: Paramilitary Death Squads and the Construction of State Terror in Spain’, in J.A. Sluka (ed.), Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 46 69.
Session 7, Thursday, 17 Jan, 15:00 18:30 Materialising state space
Required reading:
Ferguson, James and Akhil Gupta, 2002, ‘Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality’, American Ethnologist 29(4):981 1002.
Harvey, Penelope, 2005, ‘The Materiality of State-Effects: An Ethnography of a Road in the Peruvian Andes’, in C. Krohn-Hansen and K.G. Nustad (eds), State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives, London: Pluto Press, 123 141.
Reeves, Madeleine, 2009, ‘Materialising State Space: “Creeping Migration” and Territorial Integrity in Southern Kyrgyzstan’, Europe-Asia Studies 61(7):1277 1313.
Session 8, Monday, 21 Jan, 9:45 11:15 The survival of the state
Required reading:
Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 2002, Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey, Princeton: Princeton University Press, Chapter 5, 155 187.
Session 9, Thursday, 24 Jan, 15:00 18:30 Feeling the state
Required reading:
Taussig, Michael, 1992, ‘Maleficium: State Fetishism’, in M. Taussig, The Nervous System, New York: Routledge, 111 140.
Linke, Uli, 2006, ‘Contact Zones: Rethinking the Sensual Life of the State’, Anthropological Theory 6(2):205 225.
Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 2007, ‘Make-Believe Papers, Legal Forms and the Counterfeit: Affective Interactions between Documents and People in Britain and Cyprus’, Anthropological Theory 7(1):79 98.
Recommended additional readings:
Jansen, Stef, 2014, ‘Hope for/against the State: Gridding in a Besieged Sarajevo Suburb’, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 79(2):238 260.
Laszczkowski, Mateusz and Madeleine Reeves (eds.), 2017, Affective States: Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions, New York: Berghahn Books.
Stoler, Ann L., 2004, ‘Affective States’, in D. Nugent and J. Vincent (eds), A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 4 20.
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