Anthropology 307 - Power,Subjectivity,and Political Imagination

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. This course explores the diverse ways in which power is constituted, rationalized and contested. What kinds of practices, languages, institutions, and symbolic formations make up the political How have conceptions and practices of political belonging and political subjectivity varied historically and across different societies What might be the challenges and possibilities of studying power and political subjectivities ethnographically We will begin with a reading of classic texts in social theory and political anthropology. Then we will focus more specifically on how the modern state and citizenship, institutions traditionally the domain of political science, have been studied anthropologically. We will examine central analytic concepts, including hegemony, governmentality, ideology, and resistance and the ways in which they have been mobilized in ethnographies of the political. Finally, we will turn to a set of questions that have more recently arisen in relation to citizenship and the state, including multiculturalism, sovereignty, nationalism, and biopolitics.Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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