Infrastructure and the Political
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 3102-FIAP |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: |
14.7
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Nazwa przedmiotu: | Infrastructure and the Political |
Jednostka: | Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej |
Grupy: |
Courses in foreign languages Moduł L5: Antropologia polityczna i ekonomiczna |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
(brak)
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Rodzaj przedmiotu: | nieobowiązkowe |
Skrócony opis: |
This course draws on the recently growing interdisciplinary literature on the social lives of diverse material infrastructures. |
Pełny opis: |
The course combines ethnographic and theoretical readings from anthropology, sociology, geography, political science and Science and Technology Studies. How are infrastructures socially produced and, conversely, how do they become constitutive factors in shaping relations of power, economic circulations and social order? How do they serve social engineering and ordering powers? How is the socio-political work of infrastructures contested? What might be the unexpected effects of infrastructures' own material agency? Exploring these and related question, the course offers innovative insights on the nature and meaning of the political and brings to light the usually taken-for-granted gridworks underpinning social worlds. |
Literatura: |
Anand, N. 2013. 'Municipal Disconnect: On Abject Water and its Urban Infrastructures'. Ethnography 13(4):487-509. Dalakoglou, D. 2017. The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Haines, S. 2017. 'Imagining the Highway: Anticipating Infrastructural and Environmental Change in Belize'. Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2017.1282974 Harvey, P. and H. Knox 2015. Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Humphrey, C. 2005. 'Ideology in Infrastructure: Architecture and Soviet Imagination'. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11(1):39-58. Jensen, C.B. and A. Morita 2015. 'Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments'. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 1:81-87. Joyce, P. and T. Bennett (eds) 2010. Material Powers. London: Routledge. Knox, H. 2017. 'Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination'. Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363-384. Larkin, B. 2008. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press. Larkin, B. 2013. 'The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure'. Annual Review of Anthropology 42:327–343. Reeves, M. 2016. 'Infrastructural Hope: Anticipating ‘Independent Roads’ and Territorial Integrity in Southern Kyrgyzstan'. Ethnos, DOI:10.1080/00141844.2015.1119176 Schwenkel, C. 2013. 'Post-Socialist Affect: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam'. Cultural Anthropology 28(2):252-277. Von Schnitzler, A. 2008. 'Citizenship Prepaid: Water, Calculability and Techno-Politics in South Africa'. Journal of Southern African Studies 34(4):899-917. |
Efekty uczenia się: |
Po ukończeniu zajęć studenci potrafią: - analitycznie myśleć i dokonywać obserwacji i krytyki przemian społeczno-kulturowych - posługiwać się wybranym językiem obcym na poziomie B2+ Europejskiego Systemu Opisu Kształcenia Językowego - posługiwać się specjalistyczną terminologią z zakresu etnologii i antropologii kulturowej w języku obcym |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
Course essay (term paper) of 2,500 words. Students will be asked to submit 250-word abstracts of their prospective essays mid-semester. Students are free to pick a topic of their choice, as long as it speaks to the overall theme of the course. The essays should also engage with at least selected readings discussed during the semester, plus any other relevant literature (which the students will be expected to identify). In addition, students will have the opportunity to volunteer to make a presentation on one of the required readings during the semester. A successful presentation equals half a grade up on the final score. |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Warszawski.