Unit
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- A005409
- Curriculum
- Cooperazione internazionale e governance globale
- Teacher
- Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Teachers
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- Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Hours
- 60 ore - Riccardo Cruzzolin
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to propose a reflection on the contribution that anthropological knowledge can give to the understanding of the power relationships present in many societies. In particular, will be studied the various forms of legitimation of power, the relationship between power and culture, hegemony and subordination. There are two parts. A first, more institutional, which will retrace the history of academic political anthropology. A second, which will focus more on the concepts that can make the logic of domination and power recognizable in contemporary life contexts, both the more "official" ones and the more intimate and ordinary ones (for example gender relations). The second part will also deal with the relationship between "formal" and "informal" politics and various examples of resistance from below will be investigated.
- Reference texts
- For attending students: handouts will be distributed during the lessons For non-attending students: Manuale: Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre. 2008. Antropologia e sviluppo. Milano: Cortina. Due testi a scelta tra: Anderson, B.: Comunità immaginate. Originie 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
- To make students understand the different forms that the politician, the economic can take and the importance of the relationship between politics, economy and culture.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and workshops
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination
- Extended program
- Lineages, segmental societies and gangs. African states. Non-Western economies The transformation processes induced by colonialism. The birth of the nation-state. Nation and ethnicity. The gaze of the state: legality and illegality. The world-system and resistance movements. Microphysics of power. The power and the body The interstitial and naturalized forms of violence: gender-based violence, structural violence, symbolic violence.