Sumários
Borders and Bordercrossings
7 Outubro 2024, 13:00 • António Fernando Medeiros
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;
Guest lecture: criminalisation of immigrants
30 Setembro 2024, 20:30 • Manuel João Ramos
Conference on criinalisation of immigrants and human rights in the USA.
Debate.
Invited lecture: Prof. Denis O'Hara (University of Texas, USA)
Debate.
Invited lecture: Prof. Denis O'Hara (University of Texas, USA)
Public Anthropology
30 Setembro 2024, 15:30 • 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
Public Anthropology
30 Setembro 2024, 13:00 • António Fernando Medeiros
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
Introduction to the course/ summary of syllabus/ evaluation
23 Setembro 2024, 20:30 • Manuel João Ramos
Introduction to the course.
The importance of anthropology in the study of citizenship and human rights.