For March 18 class - from Carol, students please take note - change in readings

Please see the updated syllabus posted on the Drive folder. I have cut down the readings to give more time for the book review presentations, and reorganised them between sessions 6 and 7 slightly (to distribute the load better for the presenters. Also please note that I uploaded a critical review of Gupta's Red Tape by Harriss and Jeffrey that should be read along with the book. Everyone please ensure that you have done all the reading in advance!                                                      

March 18

1.       Bureaucracy

Pierre Bourdieu, Loic J. D. Wacquant, Samar Farage, Rethinking the state: genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field. Sociological Theory 12(1): 1-18, 1994.

Akhil Gupta, Red Tape; Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India (Orient BlackSwan, 2012), Chaps 1, 2, and Epilogue.

John Harriss & Craig Jeffrey Depoliticizing injustice. Economy and Society 42(3):507-520, 2013.

2.      The ‘everyday state’

Jonathon Shapiro Anjaria, Ordinary states: everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai. American Ethnologist 38(1): 58-72, 2011.

Emma Tarlo, Paper truths: the Emergency and slum clearance through forgotten files. In Fuller and Beneit, Everyday State, pp 68-90.

Mathew Hull, Ruled by records: the expropriation of land and the misappropriation of lists in Islamabad. American Ethnologist 35(4): 501-18, 2008.

                                   

Please remember that we have an extended session on March 18 to include the book review presentations. Those who are writing book reviews should upload them by Thursday so that everyone has time to read the reviews in advance. Presenters will have 10 minutes each to briefly discuss the book, and 5 minutes for discussion.

Please upload your book reviews by today evening latest to the Google Drive folder.