Sumários

Universalism vs Relativism

21 Outubro 2024, 13:00 António Fernando Medeiros


The universalism vs relativism debate

Who is the subject of Human Rights

- students' presentations and debate

Borders and bordercrossings

14 Outubro 2024, 20:30 Manuel João Ramos


Borders: boundaries, frontiers, limits

State of exception and (bio)politics

From refugee camps to gated communities

Case study: Meheba Refugee Settlement

Students' presentations and debate


Recommended readings:

· Agier, Michel, 2011[2008 ], Managing the undesirables: Refugee camps and Humanitarian Government, Cambridge, Polity;

· Knudsen, J. Chr. 1995, "When trust is on trial. Negotiating refugees narratives", in E. Valentine Daniel & J. Chr Knudsen (eds) Mistrusting Refugees, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, pp 13-35;

· Bourgois, Phillipe, 1990, "Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Ethnographic Lessons from Central America", in Journal of Peace Research 27(1), pp.43-54.

· Davies, James; Dimitrina Spencer et al., 2010, Emotions in the field, The Psychology and Anthropology of the field work Experience, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California;

· Greenhouse, C. J., Mertz, E., Warren, K. B. B.,eds, 2002 , Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change, Duke University Press Books;

The politics of citizenship

14 Outubro 2024, 15:30 Manuel João Ramos


For an anthropology of discrimination

Citizenship and dynamics of inclusion/exclusion

Contemporary societies: fundamental challenges


- students' presentations and debate


Trabalho autónomo:
· Das, Veena and Deborah Poole, eds., 2004. Anthropology in the Margins of the State, New Delhi, Oxford University Press;

· ONG, Aihwa, 2004, `Citizenship´, in A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, ed. David Nugent and Joan Vincent, 55 -68. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing;

· Hindess, Barry. 2005, "Citizenship and Empire", in Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat,. Princeton, Princeton University Press;

· Bloemraad, Irene, Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, 2008, "Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation- State", in Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 34 (2008), pp. 153-179.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, 2011, "Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion, Subordination, and Resistance"
Author(s), in American Sociological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-24;

· Ross
Source, Alistair, 2007, "Multiple Identities and Education for Active Citizenship", in 
 British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 286-303;

· Veloso, Leticia, 2008, "Universal Citizens, Unequal Childhoods: Children's Perspectives on Rights and Citizenship in Brazil"
in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 35, No. 4, Youth and Cultural Politics in Latin America, pp. 45-59;

The Politicas of Citizenship

14 Outubro 2024, 13:00 António Fernando Medeiros


Public Anthropology

7 Outubro 2024, 20:30 Manuel João Ramos


From collaborative research to Public Anthropology: definition, text and context.

Ethical dilemmas and impasses.


Required readings

-Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, 2008. "Collaborative Anthropology as Twenty-first-Century Ethical Anthropology", in Collaborative Anthropologies, volume 1, pp. 175-182;

Recommended readings

- Bangstad, Sindre, ed., 2017, Anthropology of our Times. An Edited Anthology in Public Anthropology, NY, Palgrave Macmilan, foreword and chap.1;

- Bayat, A. 2010. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press;

- Navaro-Yashin, Y. (2002). Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford: Princeton University Press;

- Osterweil, Michal. "Rethinking Public Anthropology Through Epistemic Politics and Theoretical Practice." Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 4 (2013): 598-620. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuan.12029;

- Sopranzetti, C. 2014. Owners of the Map: Mobility and Mobilization among Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Bangkok , City and Society 26(1): 120-143