Lecture 1: introduction

Lecture 2: (The changing nature of) the Field

1) Nader, Laura (1972). Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives Gained From Studying Up

Lecture 3: negotiating statehood

1) Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

Lecture 4: staging politics and symbolic repertoires

1) “Staging Politics” by Julia C. Strauss and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien (2007) Power and
performance in Asia and Africa, London, Tauris: Introduction
chapter 9: Nicolas Jaoul : Street Politics and Democratization in India

Lecture 5: staging politics and symbolic repertoires pt.2

1) Schurr, C. (2013) Visual ethnography for performative geographies: how women politicians
perform identities on Ecuadorian political stages

Lecture 6: Identity, territory, and the politics belonging

1) Jeffery, Laura. (2007). How a plantation became paradise: Changing representations of the
homeland among displaced Chagos islanders. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
2) Kevin C Dunn (2009) ‘Sons of the Soil’ and Contemporary State Making: autochthony,
uncertainty and political violence in Africa, Third World Quarterly, 30:1, 113-127
Lecture 7: Power from Below
1) Simon Turner: Negotiating Authority between UNHCR and ‘The People’
2) James Scott: Domination and the Arts of Resistance . Chapter 7 "The lnfrapolitics of
Subordinate Groups" (p.183)

Lecture 8: Riots and protest

Laura Naegler (2014): “The ritual of insurrection and the ‘thrill seeking youth’.(p. 151-168)

Lecture 9: Political Mobilisation in the Digital age

1) How to Be Visible in Student Politics: Performativity and the Digital Public Space in
Bangladesh
2) Democracy in an age of viral reality: A media epidemiography of Spain's indignados
movement John Postill