General information
| Course name | Seminar: Master: Ethnologie transdisziplinär (ETRANS): Anthropology of the state: interdisciplinary perspectives on governance, power and public health |
| Course number | MA ETRANS |
| Semester | SS 2012 |
| Current number of participants | 1 |
| expected number of participants | 30 |
| Home institute | Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie |
| Courses type | Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| First date | Monday, 16.04.2012 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Participants | This course will offer an introduction to the anthropology of the state taking a critical approach to key issues and terms in this course such as governance, power and management of HIV and drug addiction. The course has an interdisciplinary approach to state and state technologies of control in the sense of Foucault. Besides providing an introduction to the field of anthropology of the state, governance, power and public health management, we will look at different forms of governing institutions, legal orders and investigate how power and power relations play a role in those spheres of governance and state practices. We will focus on state and governance in the field of public health, particularly the case of HIV and drug abuse in Central Asia. Ethnographic examples are drawn from the instructors' own work in Uzbekistan. This course offers not only basic understanding of complex terms such as state, power and governance but also provides an excellent opportunity for students with various interests to join into critical discussion of range of topics from state and power in terms of policy and governance but also public health management and power of state, involved in the management of HIV infection and drug addiction. |
| Pre-requisites | This is an advanced graduate seminar. The seminar discussions will not serve as basic didactic introductions to the subject matter but rather a more thorough introduction to the works of Foucault will be done in this seminar. As a result, it is important that participants have a fairly solid background in order to participate effectively in the discussions. This does not mean that it is necessary to have read deeply on the theory of the state as such, but it means that participants should have a pretty good foundation in basic sociological and anthropological theories and classical authors in these fields. |
| Performance record |
Modulleistung: Hausarbeit/seminar paper Studienleistung: To be announced in the first session. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
Studienprogramm: MA Ethnologie 45/75/120, MA International Area Studies Modul: ETRANS |
| SWS | 2 |
| Miscellanea | Besonderheiten: This course will be taught in English. |
| ECTS points | 5 |
