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Medicine, Science and Citizenship Fall 2008. Three credits. Miriam Ticktin Biological technologies and their interventions produce ethical dilemmas that occupy the public imagination and invite governmental legislation. This seminar takes as its starting point contemporary reworkings of the relationship between the body and the state. Much recent work has explored how people advance biological claims to make citizenship claims on the state. Similarly, new medical and scientific technologies and the growth of the pharmaceutical industry have changed the ways in which citizens relate to each other and to states, as well as the way states can discipline or help their citizens flourish. In this class, we explore why and how these technologies are so provocative, what they achieve, and what they disallow. What social and political hierarchies do they produce, and what notions of humanity Topics include the political economy of health; immigration, refugees, and health; new reproductive technologies; bioethics; medical humanitarianism; the new genetics; HIV/AIDS; psychiatry, trauma and citizenship; and violence against women.
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3.00 Credits
Truth Production: Historical and Cultural Frames Fall 2008. Three credits. Ann Stoler This course explores the production of truth as an historically and culturally variable phenomenon. When and how is it that facts come to matter When and why does the eyewitness account come to be a more credible truth Under what conditions do rumors produce more reliable truths than being present What is the relationship between torture and truth, between sincerity and deception, between narrative form and truth claims Truth production takes different forms (confession, testimonials, truth commissions) just as it employs and produces different technologies (truth serums, psychoanalysis, torture, lie-detectors, dna sampling). Truth production is situated knowledge par excellence. How we can know the past is contingent on what we take to be plausible and reliable truth claims about the past, who counts as a credible witnesses, and what kinds of evidence are marshaled to back historical claims. Drawing on the work of Steven Shapin, Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Natalie Davis, and scholars of historical ethnography, we will look at "hierarchies of credibility"(documents, testimony, memory, rumor, visual vs. verbal evidence) and the conditions under which they change. Readings will be drawn from Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports, torture documents, court cases, and from the fields of philosophy, literature, and history as well as anthropology. This course is not open to first year graduate students.
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3.00 Credits
Anthropology of Materiality Fall 2008. Three credits. Arjun Appadurai and Peter van der Veer The subject of materiality in anthropology revisits debates about the social life of things, the tensions between gift and commodity, the traffic between humans and non-humans, and the relationship of human designs to the design of humanity. These debates raise questions about representation, as in modern art, or about agency, as in Protestantism, or take the shape of an opposition between materialism and spirituality fueled by anxieties about consumption and consumerism. While these concerns have a long genealogy worldwide, contemporary globalization forces us to place them in new ethical, political and cultural contexts. This graduate seminar involves close reading of classical and recent anthropological texts. Students collaborate in reports and class discussions to bridge longstanding debates about the anthropology of objects with more recent topics in the anthropology of science, technology and agency.
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3.00 Credits
E xplorations in Performativity Fall 2008 and Spring 2009. One and one-half credits per semester. Benjamin Lee Despite the demise of the linguistic turn, performativity remains a key issue in the social sciences and humanities. This course will look at the issue of performativity from philosophical, linguistic, and anthropological perspectives and explore its implications for contemporary social issues. The course runs two semesters. The first semester looks at the key works about performativity. These will include John Austin's How to Do Things with Words, Derrida's Limited Inc., Shoshana Felman' s The Literary Speech Act, and selections from the writings of Emile Benveniste, Donald Davidson, and Pierre Bourdieu. The second part of the course will look at applications of performativity to contemporary issues such as gender and performance (Judith Butler), social imaginaries (Charles Taylor), revolutionary foundations (Hannah Arendt), and capital (Marx). One of the key issues we will look at are the relations between performativity, ritual, risk, and embodiment. Students must register for both fall 2008 and spring 2009 terms.
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3.00 Credits
Doctoral ProSeminar I: Project Conceptualization Fall 2008. Three credits. Ann Stoler This is a two part doctoral seminar in preparation for dissertation research. Part I is designed to provide some of the analytic tools that should be useful in developing and formulating a dissertation project. Our focus is on identifying a subject of ethnographic inquiry and on formulating a problematic. The seminar will combine readings and writing exercises that develop your ethnographic sensibilities and ethnographic writing. The goal of this first part is to clarify your research problematic and the literature you will need to master. The final paper will be a preliminary research proposal. Part II of the course, in the Winter term, will be devoted to developing the methodological features of your work and your proposal. The goal of this seminar is a well documented, well-motivated, ethically responsible, richly substantive, and feasible research proposal, suitable for doctoral dissertation funding.
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3.00 Credits
Doctoral ProSeminar II : Ethnographic Methods Spring 2009. Three credits. Janet Roitman The purpose of this graduate seminar is to orient masters and doctoral students to the pragmatic, conceptual, and epistemological details of fieldwork and the reporting and narration of ethnographic work as it presents itself in the immediacy of everyday human experience. We will explore a broad range of issues from the practicalities of fieldwork to the epistemology of research, from modes of analysis with various forms of data to ethical issues in research and trends in reporting and narrating ethnographic work. The goal of this seminar is to help students prepare for extended ethnographic fieldwork. Apart from familiarity with both technical "how-to" literature and ongoing debates about the nature of ethnography,each student will design and implement a small fieldwork project based on observation and interviewing, which will be the basis of an analytical case study.
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3.00 Credits
Doctoral ProSeminar II : Grant Writing Spring 2009. Three credits. Miriam Ticktin This seminar is a practical course in grant writing. It has three goals: 1. To clarify and present a research project. 2. To develop an understanding of grant proposals as process and genre. 3. To increase the chance of students' projects obtaining funding. Guidelines for the NSF Cultural Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant are followed. Over the semester students work on the following sections of the proposal: Statement of the research problem, including main research questions Review of the literature and significance of research Preliminary research Research plan, including: research design, research site, and data analysis Research schedule and budget
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3.00 Credits
Historical Foundations of Political Economy I Fall 2008. Three credits. Anwar Shaikh This course provides an introduction to the history of classical economic thought. Classical economics provides important building blocks for an understanding of modern capitalism, because it integrates its economic analysis with social class, income distribution, real competition, technological change, and the world economy. This particular course is the first of a two part sequence, and its particular focus is on Smith, Ricardo, and Marx. No prior background is required, and the course is open to advanced undergraduates. Cross-listed as LECO 4501.
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Historical Foundations of Political Economy II Spring 2009. Three credits. Gary Mongiovi This course surveys the history of economic thought since 1870, beginning with marginalism and the origins of the neoclassical school. We then turn to the contributions of Marshall, Wicksell, Schumpeter, Robinson, Sraffa, and Keynes. Finally, we survey developments in political economy, emphasizing the interdisciplinary tradition of Polanyi and contemporary issues in Marxian economics, focusing on issues of state-market relations and the theoretical and historical link between capitalism and democracy.
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3.00 Credits
World Political Economy Spring 2009. Three credits. Sanjay Reddy This course brings economic theory and political theory to bear on the analysis of contemporary economic problems, including the Asian financial crisis, the stagnation of wages in the United States, the monetary union in Europe, and economic integration of the Americas. Other possible topics include migration and urbanization, trade and investment, nationalism and national class divisions, patterns of the world division of labor, the economics of race and gender, the globalization of capital, the changing role of the modern state, contemporary macro policy, financial instability, technological change, and business organization. Lectures by Professor Anwar Shaikh and guests provide historical background and use case studies to analyze issues in political economy.
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