Unit POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONFLICTS
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- A001435
- Curriculum
- Cooperazione internazionale e state building
- Teacher
- Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Teachers
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- Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Hours
- 42 ore - Riccardo Cruzzolin
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Sociologico
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
Italian- Contents
The course aims to reflect on the nature of power in many societies. In particular, it will propose a study on various forms of legitimization of power, on the relationship between power and culture, on hegemony and subordination. The course is divided in two parts. A first, more institutional, that will retrace the history of academic political anthropology, and a second, which will focus on the concepts that can illustrate the logic of domination and power operating in contemporary life contexts: those that are more "official" and those that are intimate and ordinary (for example, gender relations). The second part will also deal with the relationship between "formal" politics and "informal" politics and will examine various examples of resistance from below.- Reference texts
For attending students: handouts and papers will be distributed during the lessons
For non-attending students:
Manual:
Li Causi, L.: Uomo e potere, Carocci
Two texts to choose from:
Anderson, B.: Comunità immaginate. Origini e diffusione dei nazionalismi, Laterza, 2018
Bloch. M.: Da preda a cacciatore. La politica dell’esperienza religiosa, Raffaello Cortina, 2005
Dematteo L.: L’idiota in politica. Antropologia della Lega Nord, Feltrinelli 2011
Evans-Pritchard, E.: I Nuer, un’anarchia ordinata, Franco Angeli, 2016
Fassin, D.: La forza dell’ordine. Antropologia della polizia nelle periferie urbane, La Linea, 2013
Fassin, D.: Ragione umanitaria. Una storia morale del presente, Derive Approdi, 2018
Gellner, E.: Nazioni e nazionalismo, Editori riuniti, 1994
Heritier, F.: Dissolvere la gerarchia. Maschile/Femminile II, Raffaello Cortina, 2004
Mintz, S.: Storia dello zucchero, Einaudi, 1997
Ong, A.: Da rifugiati a cittadini. Pratiche di governo nella nuova America, Raffaello Cortina, 2005
Ong, A.: Neoliberismo come eccezione. Cittadinanza e sovranità in mutazione, La Casa Usher, 2013
Scott, J.: Lo sguardo dello stato, Eleuthera, 2019
Smith, A.: Le origini etniche delle nazioni, il Mulino, 1998- Educational objectives
Make people understand the different forms that the politician can take and the importance of the relationship between politics and culture.- Prerequisites
None.- Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and group workshops.- Learning verification modality
Oral examination.- Extended program
Lineages, segmentary societies and bands.
African states.
The processes of transformation induced by colonialism.
And the west? The birth of the nation-state.
Nation and ethnicity.
The state's gaze: legality and illegality.
The world system and resistance movements.
Microphysics of power.
Power and the body
The interstitial and naturalized forms of violence: gender violence, structural violence, symbolic violence.