Sumários

Borders and Bordercrossings

16 Outubro 2023, 13:00 Catarina Fróis


Borders and Bordercrossings

Legal Status, asylum seekers and the refugee crisis
Discussion of the documentary "we walk together a syrian refugee family’s journey to the heart of europe", The Guardian 2015
Analysis of data from the UNHCR Global Trends Reports (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Introduction to the course/ summary of syllabus/ evaluation - Public Anthropology

9 Outubro 2023, 20:30 Manuel João Ramos


Introduction to the course.

The importance of anthropology in the study of citizenship and human rights.

 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 - Public Anthropology

9 Outubro 2023, 18:00 Manuel João Ramos


Introduction to the course.

The importance of anthropology in the study of citizenship and human rights.

 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, universalism v. relativism

9 Outubro 2023, 13:00 Catarina Fróis


Anthropology: methods, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism

Public Anthropology: ethical dilemas
The universal and the particular: main challenges

Syllabus Presentation: organization of the sessions, program and evaluation calendar

2 Outubro 2023, 13:00 Catarina Fróis


Syllabus Presentation: organization of the sessions, program and evaluation calendar