Vagrancy in the Perspective of Global History and Anthropology

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of History

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 4 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Vagrancy in the perspective of global history and anthropology

Learning Objectives

• Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory and to provide a comprehensive overlook of key anthropological theories.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
• Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
• Able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis

Course Contents

• Vagrancy and modernity
• “A thorn in the side of states”
• Vagrancy across the social and political landscape of modern empires and nation states
• Legislation against vagrancy
• Social production of Vagrancy across the social and political landscape of modern empires and nation states
• Plebeian modernity: illegality, and the urban poor

Assessment Elements

• Essay
• Attendance

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.2 * Attendance + 0.8 * Essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Gerasimov, I. (2018). Plebeian Modernity : Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1635990
• Scott, J. C. (2020). Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Polanyi, K. (2014). The Great Transformation : The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Vol. Unabridged). Boston, Mass: Beacon Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=715728

Authors

• Chaikovskaia Arina Alekseevna
• Dzhafarova Alina Tagirovna