This course is compulsory on the BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is compulsory on the BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures in the ST. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of virtual lectures, classes and online interactive activities. The contact hours listed above are the minimum expected. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of LT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.
Yanagisako, S. and L. Rofel (2019) Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: a collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, Duke University Press.Cowen D (2014) The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Dua, Jatin. (2019) Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean. University of California Press.Allison, A. (2009). Nightwork: Sexuality, pleasure, and corporate masculinity in a Tokyo hostess club. University of Chicago Press.C.Upadhyay (2015) Re-engineering India: Work, Capital and Class in an Offshore Economy, Oxford University PressAmoore, Louise, and Volha Piotukh, eds. (2015) Algorithmic life: Calculative devices in the age of big data. RoutledgeNakassis, Constantine V. (2016) Doing style: Youth and mass mediation in South India. University of Chicago Press.Fillitz, Thomas, and Paul van der Grijp, eds.(2018) An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors. Bloomsbury Publishing.Stout, N. (2019) Dispossessed: how predatory bureaucracy foreclosed on the American Middle Class. University of California Press.Maguire, Mark and Setha Low (2019) Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control. NYU Press.Zeynep Tufekci (2017) Twitter and tear gas: The power and fragility of networked protest. Yale University Press.Coleman, Gabriella (2014) Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. Verso books.Bear, Laura (2015) Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River. Stanford University Press.
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.