Spring 2007.

Anth. 565 – Race, Faith, Nation, Class: Solidarities and Social Movements

Dr. Jane Adams

Readings

The list of readings below is provisional, subject to change based on interests of participants in the seminar. Specific topics may be extended or truncated if interest warrants.

BUY: Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, edited by Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman. New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Kenhelm Burridge, New Heaven, New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities. Basil Blackwell [OP available used]

[hold off on this one] Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001. [available used]

Readings for Week 2. Perspectives on social movements
Be prepared to present on your reading. Place the theory in a historical context and, to the degree possible, in a larger intellectual and social context. When was this theory developed? What influence has it had? Interestingly, Wikipedia may have some good info, as will google and other web searches.
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Jan 22-26
Everyone read:

Edelman, Marc, Social Movements: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics. Annual Review of Anthropology 2001(30):285-317.

Victor Turner, Preface and Chapter 1, Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors, in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Cornell University Press, 1974. pp13-59.
Systems theory
 Christian Fuchs, “The Self Organization of Social Movements” Systemic practice and action research [1094-429X] 2006 vol:>69 iss:1 pg:101 [available through EBSCO] Eunice Buck
Definitional issues

Wallace, A. F.C., Revitalization Movements. American Anthropologist LVIII (1956):264-281. [JSTOR] Eric Dangoy

Ralph Linton and A. Irving Hallowell, Nativistic Movements. American Anthropologist XLV (1943):230-240. [JSTOR] Hong Zang
Relative deprivation Aberle, David, A Note on Relative Deprivation Theory as Applied to Millenarian and other Cult Movements. in Sylvia Thrupp, ed., Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements. New York : Schocken Books, 1970. pp. 209-14. Kaitlin Fertaly
EVERYONE READ
Resource mobilization and collective action frames		 Robert D. Benford and David A. Snow, Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology 2000 26:611-39.

NOTE: Rob Benford will meet with class.
Week 3.
 Jan 29-Feb 2		 Nations, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment Project
 

Readings from Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, ed. By Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman.

  • Introduction – 1-19
  • Anthony Smith, Ethno-Symbolism and the Study of Nationalism. Pp. 23-31
  • Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood. Pp. 32-39
  • Ernest Gellner, Nationalism and Modernity. Pp. 40-47
  • Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Pp. 48-60
  • John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State pp. 61-73

Wokler, Robert, The Enlightenment: The Nation-State and the Primal Patricide of Modernity. Collegium Budapest , Institute for Advanced Study. Discussion Paper Series No. 46. http://www.colbud.hu/main_old/PubArchive/DP/DP46-Wokler.pdf Wokler’s obituary: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1856123,00.html

Levinger, Matthew and Paula Franklin Lytle. Myth and mobilization: the triadic structure of nationalist rhetoric. Nations and Nationalism 7(2, 2001):175-194.
Abstract of research paper – brief discussion
Week 4.
Feb 5-9		 Ethnic conflicts – nature and causes
Dr. Shulman meets with us

Definitional issues

 Thomas Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism. In Nations and Nationalism. Pp. 135-148.
Structural analysis Tambiah, Stanley J., Ethnic Conflict in the World Today. American Ethnologist 16(2):335-349 (May, 1989)
Cognitive explanations

Hale, Henry E., Explaining Ethnicity. Comparative Political Studies 37(4):458-485 (May 2004). (available through EBSCO. url: http://cps.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/37/4/458).

Appadurai, Arjun, Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization. Development and Change 20(1998):905-925.
Symbolic Politics [may be a better article by Kaufman here] Kaufman, Stuart J., “Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution” Paper for Conference, “Living Together After Ethnic Killing: Debating the Kaufmann Hypothesis,” Rutgers University , New Brunswick , NJ, Oct. 14, 2000.

Stephen Shulman, Sources of Civic and Ethnic Nationalism in Ukraine , Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2002), 1-30.
Historic and Symbolic aspects of ethnic mobilization – case study of the former Yugoslavia

Bieber, Florian, “Nationalist Mobilization and Stories of Serb Suffering: The Kosovo myth from 600th anniversary to the present. Rethinking History 6(1):95-110 (2002)

Denich, Bette, “Dismembering Yugoslavia : Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide” American Ethnologist 21(2):367-390.

Marko-Stockl, Edith, “The Making of Ethnic Insecurity: A Case Study of the Krajina Serbs,” Human Security Persepctives 1(2):24-33 (2004).

Bax, Mart. Planned Policy or Primitive Balkanism? A Local Contribution to the Ethnography of the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ethnos 2000. 65(3):317-340

Oberschall, Anthony, The Manipulation of Ethnicity: From Ethnic Cooperation to Violence and War in Yugoslavia . Ethnic and Racial Studies 23(6, November 2000):982-1001.
Week 5.
Feb 29-23		 Ethnic conflicts – nature and causes cont.
Bibliography due. Brief discussion of projects
Week 6.
Feb 19-23		 Ethnicity and class as a bases for political mobilization - Bolivia

Postero, Nancy, “Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism: A look at the Bolivian Uprising of 2003. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Canessa, Andrew, Evangelical Protestantism in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia . Studies in World Christianity 1998. 4(1):21-40

Nash, June. Interpreting Social Movements: Bolivian Resistance to Economic Conditions Imposed by the International Monetary Fund. American Ethnologist 19(2, May , 1992):275-293.
Week 7.
Feb 26-Mar 2		 Religion, religious institutions, and ritual processes

Mitja Velikonja et al. The Role of Religions and Religious Communities in the Wars in Ex-Yugoslavia 1991-1999. Translation of interviews published in Slavonian (responses translated from Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian languages) in Balcanis 2(2, 2002):68-83 (available EBSCO; also in Word format at www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/2003/velikonja03.doc

Talal Asad, Interview with Nermeen Shaikh, AsiaSource http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/asad.cfm

[See, for larger discussion of modernities and philosophical debates concerning place of religion in modern polities, a review essay by Femke Stock, “Imaginaries Imagined: A Discussion of Charles Taylor’s Modern Social Imaginaries. Ars Disputandi [http:///www.ArsDisputandi.org] 6, 2006.]

Juergensmeyer, Mark. The New Religious State . Comparative Politics. 27(4, July 1995):379-391

Victor Turner. Religious Paradigms and Political Action: Thomas Becket at the Council of Northhampton. In Dramas Fields and Metaphors. Pp. 60-97.

[Read as a companion, Deflem, Mathieu. 1991. “Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner’s Processual Symbolic Analysis.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30(1):1-25. http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zturn.pdf and http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zturn.htm ]

Mimesis. (Discussion of mimesis and alterity). http://www.chicagoschoolmediatheory.net/glossary2004/mimesis.htm

Burridge, New Heaven, New Earth, chaps. 1-2, 7-11. [Many available cheap at abebooks.com and other used book brokers]

Edelman, Marc. Bringing the Moral Economy back in…to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements. American Anthropologist 107(3, 2005):331-345.

Mellon, James G. Islam and International Politics: Examining Huntington’s “Civilizational Clash” Thesis. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions Summer 2001 2(1):73-83
Week 8.
March 5-9		 Religion, religious institutions, and ritual processes [continued]
Week 9. Spring break
Week 10.
March 29-23		 Discussion of papers
First draft of paper due
Week 11.
March 26-30		 Race as a problematic category

Paul Gilroy. Between Camps. In Nations and Nationalism. Pp. 149-162.

Blee, Kathleen M. and Dwight B. Billings. Violence and Local State Formation: A Longitudinal Case Study of Appalachian Feuding. Law and Society Review 30(4, 1996):671-706.

Brents, Barbara G. and Deo S. Mshigeni, Terrorism in Context: Race, Religion, Party, and Violent Conflict in Zanzibar . The American Sociologist 35(2, summer 2004):60-74.
Stoler, Ann, Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia . Comparative Studies in Society and History 34(3, July 1992):514-551.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice. People of color in Louisiana : Parts I and II. Journal of Negro History 1(4, 1916): 361-376 and 2(1, Jan, 1917):51-78.

Feldman, Glenn, Race, Sex, Class and the Status Quo Society: Developing Racial, Political and Religious Attitudes in 1940s Alabama .

Recommended: McVeigh, Rory and David Sikkink, Organized Racism and the Stranger. Sociological Forum 20(4, Dec. 2005):497-522. [uses collective action frames, tests Simmel’s theory re. the social position of “the stranger” through examining county-level variation in existence of active racist groups in 2001.]

Leith Mullings, Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 2005, 34:667-93.

McDermott, Monica and Frank L. Samson, White Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States . Annual Review of Sociology 2005, 31:245-61.

Choosing issues, choosing sides: constructing identities in Mexican-American social movement organizations. Ethnic & Racial Studies, 24 (2, March 2001):218-235.
Week 12.
April 2-6		 The State and political institutions

Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism. In Nations and Nationalism. 184-196.

Kay, Bruce H. Violent Opportunities: The Rise and Fall of “King Coca” and Shining Path. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 41(3, 1999):vi+97-127.

Nagengast, Carole. Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State. Annual Review of Anthropology 23(1994):109-36

Vladisavljević, Nebojša. Nationalism, Social Movement Theory and the Grass Roots Movement of Kosovo Serbs, 1985-1988. Europe-Asia Studies 54(5, 2002):771-790
Week 13.
 April 9-13		 Discuss/debate the nature of identity formation
Week 14.
April 16-20		 Discuss/debate the nature of popular mobilizations
Week 15.
April 23-26		 Discussion of papers
Week 16.
April 20-May 4		 Retrospective
Week 17.
May 7 – 11 		Finals Week – Panel presenting papers. Date and time tba