Anthropology of EU JSM 578
Section outline
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1. European Union, post WW II Developments
Literature
Mathieu Segers and Steven van Hecke, Reflections on the History and Historiography of European Integration. In Mathieu Segers and Steven van Hecke (eds) The European Union. Vol. I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024: 1 - 27.
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2. European preindustrial empires and coalitions and Gellnerian Anthropology of Europe.
Online meeting space
Literature
- Michael Mitterauer The Conjugal Family and Bilateral Kinship. In: Mitterauer, M. Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Spatial Path. London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 58-99.
- Goody Jack 2000: The European Family: An Historical-Anthropological Essay. Oxford: Blackwell.
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3. European Family
Record of the Lecture (2020)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RcvnYHnV9mlnWqZ0oku30vk6FuavA18u/view
Literature
- Heady, Patrick 2005: Nuclear Families and Cognatic Descent: Reflections on Two Characterisations of European Kinship. In: Skalník, Petr (ed)Anthropology of Europe: Teaching and Research. Prague: Set Out: 67-76.
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4. European nationalism - state and nation, national centralisation, national boundaries and their overlaps.
Literature
- Areilza, José M. The History and Foundations of European Integration: A contriburion to the debate on the future of the Union. In: C. Arvanitopoulos (ed.), Reforming Europe: The Role of the Centre-Right. The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs.
- Chamberlain, Lesley 2017. Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the Soul of Europe.
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5. The collapse of the Soviet empire, and Postsocialism
An analysis of the thesis that Western Europe experienced the most intense sense of unification at the breakup of the Eastern Bloc.
- Katherine Verdery 1996: What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Wilson, Thomas M. 1998: An Anthropology of the European Union, from above and Below. In: Parman, Susan (ed) Europe in the Anthropological Imagination. Prentice Hall: California State University: 148 - 156.- Shore, Chris 1999: Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the 'Self' in Ethnographic Writing (Italy). In: C. W. Watson, Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. Chicago: Pluto Press.
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Isolation, borders, and minorities in the European Union. Compatriots.
- Jana Ševčíková: Piemule
Recording of the lecture
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Theme 7. Research by European Institutions and Organizations. Attempts to study the institutions of the European Union and other instruments of power. Development of anthropology of institutions.
Literature
- Shore, Chris 2000: Building Europe: The Cultural Policy of European Integration. New York: Routledge.
- -Shore, Chris 1999: Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the 'Self' in Ethnographic Writing (Italy). In: C. W. Watson, Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. Chicago: Pluto Press.
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Literature
Literature:
-Giordano, Christian: Political Regionalism in Globalized Word System: Local Identity Constructions in Europe. -
East European cities in search of the new identity.
Literature
Karolina Koziura 2017: Colonial factor hidden in the transformation of the post-socialist city. Chernivtsi and its complicated cosmopolitan story. In: Krase, Jerome, Uherek, Zdenek: Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration.