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09/30/23 AN52020A / AN71087A Anthropology and Political Economy (Spring Term) |
Goldsmiths, University of London
AN52020A / AN71087A Anthropology and View Online

Political Economy (Spring Term)
(Academic Year 2023-24)
161 items
General Reading: (11 items)

The anthropology of the state: a reader - Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta, 2006
Book | Recommended
Global transformations: anthropology and the modern world - Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 2003
Book | Recommended
Anthropology in the margins of the state - Veena Das, Deborah Poole, 2004
Book | Recommended
States of imagination: ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state - Thomas Blom

Hansen, Finn Stepputat, 2001
Book | Recommended
A companion to the anthropology of politics - David Nugent, Joan Vincent, 2004

Book | Recommended
Power and its disguises: anthropological perspectives on politics - John Gledhill, 2000
Book | Recommended
The anthropology of politics: a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique - Joan Vincent,
2002
Book | Recommended
The anthropology of citizenship: a reader - 2013

Book | Recommended
Anthropology, politics and the state: democracy and violence in South Asia - Jonathan
Spencer, 2007
Book | Recommended
Any of these podcasts below will be useful to supplement your readings throughout the
course, as they address, in their different ways, questions of the state, of citizenship, the
question of resistance, of labour, neoliberal capitalism and community:
Podcasts | Sarah Parker Remond Centre - UCL – University College London

Webpage | Recommended
WEEK 1: The State (17 items)
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Required Readings: (5 items)

Introduction
Chapter | Essential
The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the
Deceptive Kind - MichelRolph Trouillot, 2001
Article | Essential
Everyday experiences of state betrayal on an English council estate by Insa Koch «

Anthropology of this Century
Webpage | Essential
Film/ Audio: (2 items)

The State - YouTube
Audio-visual document | Essential
Culturewise audio
Audio document | Essential
Further Reading: (12 items)

Governmentality - M. Foucault
Chapter | Further reading
Society, Economy and the State Effect - T. Mitchell

Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined
State Abstract - Akhil Gupta, 1995
Article | Further reading
The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics - Mitchell, Timothy,
Mar 1991
What Can Political Scientists Learn • about Civil Society from Anthropologists?- Myron J.
Aronoff, J. Kubik
Chapter | Further reading | Available online via Senate House library. You can register
online for access to SH, more information here:
https://libguides.gold.ac.uk/journals/using-senate-house
Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed -
James C. Scott, 1998
Book | Further reading
At the heart of the state: the moral world of institutions - Didier Fassin, Patrick Brown,
2015
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The everyday state and society in modern India - C. J. Fuller, Véronique Bénéi, 2001
Reproduction, globalization, and the state: new theoretical and ethnographic perspectives
- C. H. Browner, Carolyn Fishel Sargent, 2011
'Keeping the State Away': Democracy, Politics, and the State in India's Jharkhand Abstract -
Alpa Shah, 2007
Appropriating the State on the Council Estate - Daniel Miller, 1988-06

Everyday experiences of state betrayal on an English council estate - Insa Koch

WEEK 2: Paper truths: Bureaucracy (15 items)
Required Reading: (7 items)

Berghahn Books - “Bureaucrats are the evil sisters of ethnographers”: Discussing a new
anthropology of bureaucracy - L. Bear, N. Mathur, D. Graeber
Article | Essential
Weaponising Paperwork: The Windrush Scandal - William Davies, 10 May 2018

Article | Essential
Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports | Impact of Social Sciences -
Bathsheba Okwenje, 2019
Article | Essential
Or
The visa centre: immigrants, white saviours | Africa at LSE - Charity Atukunda, 2019
Article | Essential
Audio/ FIlm: (2 items)

Windrush Scandal Victim's Account
David Graeber, Bureaucracy - YouTube - 2016

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Further Reading (8 items)

Government of paper: the materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan - Matthew S. Hull,
2012
Book | Further reading | Chapters 2 and 3.
Bureaucracy - M. Weber
Red tape: bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India - Akhil Gupta, 2012
Paper truths: the Emergency and slum clearance through forgotten files - E. Tarlo
Make-believe papers, legal forms and the counterfeit - Yael Navaro-Yashin, 2007-03
Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined
State Abstract - Akhil Gupta, 1995
Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field - Pierre Bourdieu,
Loic J. D. Wacquant, Samar Farage, 1994-03
Bureaucracy - N. Mathur
Webpage | Further reading
WEEK 3: Everyday Resistance (24 items)

'Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance' - J. Scott
Chapter | Essential | Chapter 2.
Taking Stock: Looting and the Left in the London Riots - A. Sanchez, 2011
Article | Essential
"'One Finger does not Drink Okra Soup'. Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency." - G.
Wekker
Chapter | Essential
Audio/ Film: (3 items)

Lines of Resistance - BBC Sounds
Audio document | Essential | Poet Bridget Minamore explores how women have created
their own literary narratives
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Exhibition: ‘Zanele Muholi’ at Tate Modern, London | Art Blart

Webpage | Essential | Zanele Muholi and Lady Phyl in conversation about queer
transnational activism and the power of art interview here
Cafunga by Nadia Mosquera - AfroFoody


Revisiting the Home as a Site of Freedom and Resistance from To Exist is to Resist: Black
Feminism in Europe on JSTOR - Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, 2019
Home space, gender and activism: The visible and the invisible in austere times - Eleanor
Jupp, 2017-08
Body of power, spirit of resistance: the culture and history of a South African people - Jean
Comaroff, 1985
Resistance - Fiona Wright

Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts - James C. Scott, 1992
The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women

Abstract - Lila Abu-Lughod, 1990
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal - Sherry B. Ortner, 1995-01

Urban Social Engineering and Revolutionary Consciousness - J. Hickel

WHISPERING TRUTH TO POWER: THE EVERYDAY RESISTANCE OF RWANDAN PEASANTS TO

POST-GENOCIDE RECONCILIATION Abstract - Susan Thomson, 2011
On resisting resistance - Brown, Michael F, Dec 1996

Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology - Talal Asad, 1979-12

We eat the mines and the mines eat us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines
- June C. Nash, c1993
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Spirits of resistance and capitalist discipline: factory women in Malaysia - Aihwa Ong,
c2010
Ethnography unbound: power and resistance in the modern metropolis - Michael Burawoy,
c1991
Causing a Commotion: Public Scandal as Resistance Among Brazilian Transgendered

Prostitutes - Don Kulick, 1996-12
On resisting resistance - Brown, Michael F, Dec 1996

STIGMA AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE PRACTICES - CATHERINE KOHLER RIESSMAN,

2000-02
Nationalism and resistance: the two faces of everyday activism in Palestine during the
Intifada - Jean-Klein, Iris, Feb 2001
WEEK 4: Nationalism (12 items)

A diagnosis of contemporary forms of racism, race and nationalism: a conversation with
Professor Paul Gilroy - Paul Gilroy, Tony Sandset, Sindre Bangstad, Gard Ringen Høibjerg,
2019-03-04
Article | Essential
Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.

O'G. Anderson, 2006
Book | Essential | Chapter 6.
Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: The cultural logics of belonging and
movement. - S. Coutin
Chapter | Essential
The aesthetics of nations: anthropological and historical approaches Abstract - Nayanika

Mookherjee, 2011
Article | Essential
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The World Today: Imagined Communities - On British Nationalism - YouTube

BBC Radio 4 - Three Pounds in My Pocket


Schooling passions: nation, history, and language in contemporary western India -
Véronique Benei, c2008
The nation and its fragments: colonial and postcolonial histories - Partha Chatterjee, c1993
National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian
City Abstract - Purnima Mankekar, 1993
Belonging in the two Berlins: kin, state, nation - John Borneman, 1992
Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in

Yugoslavia Abstract - Robert M. Hayden, 1996
Transnationalism, Nationalism, Citizenship, and Property: Eastern Europe Since 1989

Abstract - Katherine Verdery, 1998
WEEK 5: Citizenship (11 items)

Undoing the Work of the Windrush Narrative – History Workshop - Kennetta Hammond
Perry, 2018
Article | Essential
Citizenship - Sian Lazar

Article | Essential
‘The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping homes and undomesticating violence work in the
South Asian immigrant community’ - A. Bhattacharjee
Chapter | Essential
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Britain’s Windrush veterans: the battle to be British - YouTube - 2018

The Chronicles of Nadiya - Tuesday, 13 Sep 2016

In conversation with Gracie Mae Bradley | Podcasts | Sarah Parker Remond Centre - UCL –
University College London
Voices from Home - YouTube - D. Le Bas, 2018


‘Blackness Disrupts My Germanness.’ On Embodiment and Questions of Identity and
Belonging Among Women of Colour in Germany from To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism
in Europe on JSTOR - Johanna Melissa Lukate, 2019
Prologema to Sovereignty
Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural

Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply] - Aihwa Ong, Virginia R.
Dominguez, Jonathan Friedman, Nina Glick Schiller, Verena Stolcke, David Y. H. Wu and Hu
Ying, 1996
Downwardly global: women, work, and citizenship in the Pakistani diaspora - Lalaie
Ameeriar, 2017
WEEK 6: READING WEEK
WEEK 7: Infrastructures (11 items)
Essential reading/listening: (4 items)

The promise of infrastructure - 2018
Book | Essential | Please read the Introduction
Ritornello: “People as Infrastructure” - AbdouMaliq Simone, 2021-10-21

Article | Essential
Freedom House Ambulance Service - 99% Invisible

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Nikhil Anand DCRP Lecture - Friday, April 27, 2018 at 11:26 AM EST
Further reading/watching (7 items)

The Infrastructure Toolbox | Society for Cultural Anthropology
Unbuilt and Unfinished - Ashley Carse, David Kneas, 2019-09-1

The Smell of Infrastructure: Notes toward an Archive - Bruce Robbins, 2007-02-01

Infrastructural Tourism - Shannon Mattern, 2013-07-01

How air conditioning remade modern America - HENRY GRABAR

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural VisibilityLisa Parks / UC Santa
Barbara – Flow
Harun Farocki, Workers leaving the factory 1995 — Are.na

Audio-visual document | Further reading
WEEK 8: Race and class in contemporary Britain (23 items)

‘We Are Ghosts’ Race, Class and Institutional Prejudice - D. Snousi, L. Mompelat, 2019
Document | Essential
Chapter 7: Feminist Class Struggles - Bell Hooks

Chapter | Essential
When Stuart Hall Was White - Public Books - James Vernon, 2017
Article | Essential | (Charts the way Hall was bringing race and class together with
reference to his own life between 'two islands' and his references to colonialism in
everyday relationships in the UK, his own work and the soon to be established canon that
made his brand of cultural studies - very much part of Goldsmiths history too)

Candice Carty-Williams introduces us to Queenie - YouTube - 2019
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Ash Sarkar Meets Akala - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Belong-The Cohesion and
Integration Network

Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire - Akala, 2019
Embodying Deficiency Through ‘Affective Practice’: Shame, Relationality, and the Lived
Experience of Social Class and Gender in Higher Education - Vik Loveday, 2016-12
Growing Up Poor and Queer in a French Village - Garth Greenwell, May 2017
The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation - Bev Skeggs,
2005-12
Attachments and connections: a ‘white working-class’ English family's relationships with

their BrAsian ‘Pakistani’ neighbours - Katharine Tyler, 2015-05-28
‘Being open, but sometimes closed’. Conviviality in a super-diverse London neighbourhood

- Susanne Wessendorf, 2014-08
Rethinking the Anthropology of Social Class - August Carbonella, Sharryn Kasmir, 2006-11
Anthropology and the Concept of Social Class - Raymond T. Smith, 1984

Race and the undeserving poor: from abolition to brexit - Robbie Shilliam, 2018
Class in the 21st century - Wendy Bottero

Redundant masculinities?: employment change and white working class youth - Linda
McDowell, Wiley InterScience (Online service), 2003
Introduction: Class and the new anthropological holism - D Kalb

Work, consumerism and the new poor - Zygmunt Bauman, 2005

10/14
Social class and the cultural turn: Anthropology, sociology and the post-industrial politics
of 21st century Britain - Gillian Evans, 2017-03
Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste - Pierre Bourdieu, 2010

Making Middle-class families in Calcutta - H. Donner

Made in Sheffield: an ethnography of industrial work and politics - Massimiliano Mollona,

c2009
The global middle classes: theorizing through ethnography - Rachel Heiman, Carla
Freeman, Mark Liechty, c2012
WEEK 9: Reproductive Justice (18 items)

'Something has to be done': tackling the UK's Black maternal health problem - Alexandra
Topping, 2020-10-02
Article | Essential
On reproductive justice: ‘domestic violence’, rights and the law in India - S. Madhok, M.
Unnithan, C. Heitmeyer, 2014
Article | Essential
Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and
reproductive justice together - Marcin Smietana, 2018
Article | Essential

Videos - Center for Reproductive Rights
Webpage | Essential
What is Reproductive Justice? • Groundswell Fund


Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India by Daisy
Deomampo - Kim Gutschow, 2018
11/14
Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women’s Resistance - Karen McCormack, 2005-10

Gender, Body, Biomedicine: How Some Feminist Concerns Dragged Reproduction to the
Center of Social Theory Abstract - Rayna Rapp, 2001
Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit - Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg,
2019-02-22
Queer Intimacies and Structural Inequalities - Laura Mamo, Eli Alston-Stepnitz, 2015-03
Ideologies and technologies of motherhood: race, class, sexuality, nationalism - Helena

Ragone, France Winddance Twine, 2000
Conceiving the new world order: the global politics of reproduction - Faye D. Ginsburg,
Rayna Rapp, 1995
European kinship in the age of biotechnology - Jeanette Edwards, Carles Salazar, 2009
Families we choose: lesbians, gays, kinship - Kath Weston, 1997

Reproduction at the Margins: Migration and Legitimacy in the New Europe - 2004/04/01
Reproducing reproduction: kinship, power, and technological innovation - Sarah Franklin,

Helena Ragoné, c1998
Transnational adoption: a cultural economy of race, gender, and kinship - Sara K. Dorow,
c2006
Reproducing Jews: a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel - Susan Martha Kahn,
2000
WEEK 10: Reproductive Labour and Care Work (19 items)
12/14
Feminist Perspectives on Class and Work - Ferguson, Ann, 2004/10/01

Article | Essential
Contradictions of Capital and Care - Nancy Fraser, July-August 2016

Article | Essential
Global woman: nannies, maids and sex workers in the new economy - Barbara Ehrenreich,
Arlie Russell Hochschild, 2003
Book | Essential | Introduction.

Tithi Bhattacharya | What is Social Reproduction Theory? - YouTube
What the f**k is social reproduction? An introduction by Plan C (sp. subs) - YouTube
A Gendered Perspective on the Pandemic | Global Challenges - Elisabeth Prügl

Article | Essential
Reflections on Crises - Episode 3: Gender, community and experiencing the pandemic in

urban India by Goldsmiths Anthropology
Limpiadores; dir: Fernando Mitjáns on Vimeo - Thursday, February 4, 2016

Ecologies of Care: Screening and conversation with Silvia Federici and Angela Anderson -
Video & Film - e-flux

Thoughts on radical care in African feminist praxis – The Sociological Review - J. Horn,
2020
Capitalism’s Crisis of Care - Sarah Leonard, Nancy Fraser, 2016

Wages Against Housework - Silvia Federici

Document | Further reading
Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation - Silvia Federici, 2004
Book | Further reading | Chapter 4.
Solid : Liquid, a (Trans)national Reproductive Formation - Kumkum Sangari

Book | Further reading | Available in print at Senate House library. You can register
13/14
online for access to SH, more information here:

https://libguides.gold.ac.uk/journals/using-senate-house
Care and Control in Asian Migrations - Mark Johnson, Johan Lindquist, 2020-03-14
Aesthetic labour: rethinking beauty politics in neoliberalism - 2017

Of Grooming Bodies and Caring Souls: New-Old Forms of Care Work in Brazilian Waxing
Studios in Berlin - Maria Lidola, 2015
Flatlining - Adia Harvey Wingfield, 2019

Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation - Silvia Federici, 2004
WEEK 11: REVISION SESSION
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09/30/23 AN52020A / AN71087A Anthropology and Political Economy (Spring Term) |

Goldsmiths, University of London

AN52020A / AN71087A Anthropology and View Online

General Reading: (11 items)

States of imagination: ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state - Thomas Blom

A companion to the anthropology of politics - David Nugent, Joan Vincent, 2004

The anthropology of citizenship: a reader - 2013

Podcasts | Sarah Parker Remond Centre - UCL – University College London

WEEK 1: The State (17 items)

Required Readings: (5 items)

Everyday experiences of state betrayal on an English council estate by Insa Koch «

Film/ Audio: (2 items)

Further Reading: (12 items)

Society, Economy and the State Effect - T. Mitchell

Book | Further reading

Appropriating the State on the Council Estate - Daniel Miller, 1988-06

Everyday experiences of state betrayal on an English council estate - Insa Koch

WEEK 2: Paper truths: Bureaucracy (15 items)

Required Reading: (7 items)

Weaponising Paperwork: The Windrush Scandal - William Davies, 10 May 2018

Audio/ FIlm: (2 items)

David Graeber, Bureaucracy - YouTube - 2016

Further Reading (8 items)

WEEK 3: Everyday Resistance (24 items)

Required Reading: (6 items)

Audio/ Film: (3 items)

Exhibition: ‘Zanele Muholi’ at Tate Modern, London | Art Blart

Cafunga by Nadia Mosquera - AfroFoody

Further Reading (18 items)

Resistance - Fiona Wright

The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women

Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal - Sherry B. Ortner, 1995-01

Urban Social Engineering and Revolutionary Consciousness - J. Hickel

WHISPERING TRUTH TO POWER: THE EVERYDAY RESISTANCE OF RWANDAN PEASANTS TO

On resisting resistance - Brown, Michael F, Dec 1996

Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology - Talal Asad, 1979-12

Book | Further reading

Causing a Commotion: Public Scandal as Resistance Among Brazilian Transgendered

On resisting resistance - Brown, Michael F, Dec 1996

STIGMA AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE PRACTICES - CATHERINE KOHLER RIESSMAN,

WEEK 4: Nationalism (12 items)

Required Reading: (6 items)

Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.

The aesthetics of nations: anthropological and historical approaches Abstract - Nayanika

Audio/ Film: (2 items)

The World Today: Imagined Communities - On British Nationalism - YouTube

BBC Radio 4 - Three Pounds in My Pocket

Further Reading (6 items)

Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in

Transnationalism, Nationalism, Citizenship, and Property: Eastern Europe Since 1989

WEEK 5: Citizenship (11 items)

Required Reading: (7 items)

Citizenship - Sian Lazar

Audio/ Film: (4 items)

Britain’s Windrush veterans: the battle to be British - YouTube - 2018

The Chronicles of Nadiya - Tuesday, 13 Sep 2016

Voices from Home - YouTube - D. Le Bas, 2018

Further Reading (4 items)

Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural

WEEK 6: READING WEEK

WEEK 7: Infrastructures (11 items)

Essential reading/listening: (4 items)