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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (18.09.2013)
The purpose of this course is to help graduate students develop an analytical and methodological toolkit with which to embark on their research projects. |
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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (29.09.2013)
GLOBAL ETHNOGRAPHIES Instructor: Zsuzsa Gille Room 3069 Class meeting times: Mondays 2-3:20pm J2019 Office hours: Mondays 4-6pm or by appointment Rm 3069
Course objectives and themes: The purpose of this course is to help graduate students develop an analytical and methodological toolkit with which to embark on their research projects.
We will address the following questions.
We will start with a brief overview of ethnography as method and as epistemology and we will discuss the politics of methodology. Then we will compare and evaluate different conceptualizations of globalization in social theory and research. From the middle of the semester on we will focus on how various scholars have conceptualized the social and the spatial-whether implicitly or explicitly. We will explore the political and methodological implications of each of these approaches.
Global ethnography, and the study of globalization from below and from a cultural perspective, constitute a relatively new field that emerged in the early 1990s, yet some texts became instant classics. We will include both those classical references students will keep bumping into and the more recent theories and empirical works, especially applications of Foucauldian governmentality approaches. Readings in most sections include both theoretical and empirical pieces, so students can immediately see the application of various theoretical approaches.
Course requirements and assignments:
Evaluation: more than 90 points: excellent (1) 76 - 89 points: very good (2) 62 - 75 points: good (3) less than 62 points: failed (4) Books:
SCHEDULE September 30 No reading.
October 7 Background on qualitative research methods: October 14 Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture." The Interpretation of Cultures. New York. Harper’s. 3-30. James C. Scott. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1-52. Comaroff J, Comaroff J. 1992. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder: Westview Press. 181-213.
Watch video:Second nature
October 21 Harvey, David. 1990. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Inquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell. 121-197, 284-307. McMichael, Philip. 1996. "Globalization: Myths and realities." Rural Sociology. 61(1):25-55. Sassen, Saskia. 1995. "The state and the global city: Notes towards a conception of place-centered governance." Competition and Change. 1:31-50. Clarke, John. 2004. "Dissolving the public realm? The logics and limits of new-liberalism." Journal of Social Policy. 33:1. 27-48. October 28 Difference and subjectivity in globalization Hall, Stuart. 1991a. "The local and the global: Globalization and ethnicity." In: Anthony D. King (ed.) Culture, Globalization and the World System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Binghamton: SUNY at Binghamton. 19-40. _____. 1991b. "Old and new identities, old and new ethnicities." In: Culture, Globalization and the World System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. 41-68. Wilk, Richard. 1995. "Learning to be local in Belize: global systems of common difference." In: Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local. 110-133. Tsing, Anna. 2009. "Supply Chains and the Human Condition." Rethinking Marxism. 21(2):148-176. November 4 Michael Goldman. 2005. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Chs. TBA
Biopolitics Lemke, Thomas. 2011. Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction. New York University Press. Chs. TBA
November 18 Roy, Ananya. 2010. Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development. Routledge. Chs. TBA
December 2 Appadurai, Arjun. 1990. "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy." Public Culture. 2(2):1-24. Castells, Manuel. 1989. "Conclusion: The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows." In: The Informational City. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 348-353. Schiller, Basch and Szanton Blanc. 1995. "From immigrant to transmigrant: Theorizing transnational migration." Anthropological Quarterly. 68(1):48-63. Portes, Alejandro, Guarnizo, Luis, E. and Landolt, Patricia. 1999. Introduction: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 22(2):217-237 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. 2002. "Globalization as Reworking Borders: Hierarchical integration and new border theory." Paper presented at ISA, March, 2002. December 9 Michael Burawoy et al. 2000. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. University of California Press. December 16 Massey, Doreen. 1994. "A Global Sense of Place." In: Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis: Minnesota Press. Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson. 1997. "Discipline and Practice: The Field as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology." In Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, edited by Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1-46. Marcus, George E. 1998. "Requirements for ethnographies of late twentieth-century modernity worldwide," "Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography." In: Ethnography through Thick and Thin. 57-104. Appadurai A. 1995. "The production of locality." In Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge, ed. R. Fardon, 204-25. London/New York: Routledge.
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