Anthropology of bureaucracy

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент истории

Статус:

Маго-лего

Когда читается:

3 модуль

Преподаватели

Касаткина Александра Константиновна

Ссорин-Чайков Николай Владимирович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course charts classical social theory of bureaucracy, key historical work and emergent ethnographies in this new field. While it includes case studies that range from (post)colonial, (post)socialist and EU contexts, its focus is not regional but methodological. We look at such issues as bureaucratic rationality, cultural intimacy and state affect, material and archival turns, ethnographies of archives, bookkeeping and digitalization of state, social lives of paper and digital documents, and violence symbolic and real.

Learning Objectives

• to understand approches in this field of inquiry

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student compares research design
• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
• Able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis

Course Contents

• Weber
• Bourdieu
• Foucault
• Latour

Assessment Elements

• final essay exam
• project essay

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.5 * final essay exam + 0.5 * project essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Matthew S. Hull. (2012). Government of Paper : The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan. University of California Press.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Nabrendorf, R. O. (1949). Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences. American Sociological Review, 14(6), 821–822. https://doi.org/10.2307/2086694

Authors

• LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA
• Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai Vladimirovich