Week 1: Introduction to the course
Tuesday, August 23
Introduction to the course – no readings due
Thursday, August 25
Benedict Anderson. 2006 [1983]. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso. Pages xi – 82.
Week 2: Theorizing Citizenship
Tuesday, August 30
Benedict Anderson. 2006 [1983]. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso. Pages 82-229.
Thursday, September 1
Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. “Beyond ‘Culture:’ Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.” In, Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson, eds. Durham: Duke University Press. Pages: 33-51.
Arjun Appadurai. 2003. “ Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography.” In The Anthropology of Space and Place. Setha M. Low, Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga, eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. 337-350.
Week 3: Seeing the State
Tuesday, September 6
Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta, eds. 2006. The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. London: Blackwell. Pages 1-162.
Thursday, September 8
Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta, eds. 2006. The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. London: Blackwell. Pages 163-286, and 381-400.
Week 4: Unseeing the State
Tuesday, September 13
No new reading -- continue discussion about “The Anthropology of the State”
Thursday, September 15
Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. 2005. “Introduction.” Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. 2006. “Sovereignty Revisited.” Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 295-315.
Week 5: Immigrant Citizenship
Tuesday, September 20
Lisa Lowe. 1996. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham: Duke UP. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3.
Thursday, September 22
Lisa Lowe. 1996. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham: Duke UP. Chapter 5, Chapter 7, and Epilogue.
Week 6: Immigrant Families
Tuesday, September 27
Aihwa Ong. 2003. Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages xi – 141.
Thursday, September 29
Aihwa Ong. 2003. Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages 141 – 286.
Week 7: Ethnic Capitalism
Tuesday, October 4
Rey Chow. 2002. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press. *Chapter 2 (Brushes with the Other-as-Face) is optional reading *
Thursday, October 6
Lauren Berlant. 1997. The Queen of America goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham: Duke UP.
Week 8: Origins
Tuesday, October 11
Reading period – No class meeting and no reading due
Thursday, October 13
Friedrick Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. New York: Penguin Classics. Pages: 3-131.
Week 9: Colonialism
Tuesday, October 18
Friedrick Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. New York: Penguin Classics. Pages: 132-222.
Sherry Ortner. 1978. “The Virgin and the State.” Feminist Studies 4(3): 19-35.
Thursday, October 20
Ann Laura Stoler. 2010 [2002]. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages: ix – 40.
Friday, October 21
Long paper writers: A paragraph is due describing your paper’s topic and your intended approach.
Week 10: Colonial Families
Tuesday, October 25
Ann Laura Stoler. 2010 [2002]. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages: 40 – 139.
Thursday, October 27
Ann Laura Stoler. 2010 [2002]. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages: 140 – 218.
Week 11: Family-States
Tuesday, November 1
Susan Glosser. 2003. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages: ix – 80.
Thursday, November 3
Susan Glosser. 2003. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. Berkeley: University of California Press.Pages: 81-200.
Week 12: Limbo
Tuesday, November 8
Films viewing due:
Deann Borshay Liem, dir. 2000. First Person Plural. Trailer is here. The film will be posted on Collab and the link will be here.
Deanne Borshay Liem, dir. 2010. In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee. Trailer is here. The film will be posted on Collab and the link will be here.
Thursday, November 10
Elena Kim. 2010. Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Duke UP. Pages: xi - 170.
Friday, November 11
Long paper writers: An outline is due of how you plan to organize your paper’s argument and evidence.
Week 13: Limbo and Montreal
Tuesday, November 15
Elena Kim. 2010. Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Duke UP. Pages: 171 - 268.
Thursday, November 17: No class meeting because of the American Anthropology Meetings
Week 14: Presentations
Tuesday, November 22
Three presentations. Speakers TBA
Thursday, November 24: No class meeting because of Thanksgiving Break
Week 15: Presentations
Tuesday, November 29
Three presentations. Speakers TBA
Thursday, December 1
Three presentations. Speakers TBA
Long paper writers: A rough draft is due. It doesn’t have to be complete but 1) it absolutely needs a thesis statement; and 2) should be at least ten pages.
Week 16: Final Thoughts and Future Questions
Tuesday, December 6
No readings due
Final papers due by email at 5pm on Friday, December 16th.
