The syllabus is comprised of books, articles in Readers and online articles.
Required books are purchased at Akademika bookstore or ordered from online booksellers, such as amazon.co.uk. Required books are also available at the University Library (provided the item is held).
Articles in Readers / Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out, please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to https://vpn.uio.no
Books
@ Fassin, Didier: Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present. University of Cambridge Press, 2012 (275 sider)
@ Gardner, K and Lewis D.: Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the twenty-first century. Pluto Press, 2015.
Curriculum Articles in Readers/Compendia
Arce, A. and N. Long "Bridging two worlds: an ethnography of bureaucrat-peasant relations in western Mexico", pp. 179-208 in An anthropological critique of development, ed. Mark Hobart. Routledge, 1993.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland "Speed", pp. 39-57 in T. H. Eriksen: Globalization: The Key Concepts, 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Nuttall, Mark "Living in a World of Movement: Human Resilience to Environmental Instability in Greenland", pp. 292–310 in The Anthropology of Climate Change, eds. S. Crate and M. Nuttall. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009.
Sanders, Todd "The making and unmaking of rains and reigns", pp. 276–297 in The Anthropology of Climate Change – A Historical Reader, ed. M. Dove. Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell, 2014.
Wilhite, Harold "Energy consumption as cultural practice: Implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use", pp. 60-72 in Cultures of Energy, eds. S. Strauss, S. Rupp and T. Love. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013.
Curriculum Online articles
Benjaminsen, T. A. and I. Bryceson (2012). "Conservation, green/blue grabbing and accumulation by dispossession in Tanzania." Journal of Peasant Studies 39(2): 335-355. tandfonline.com
Edelman, M., et al. (2013). "Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories." Third World Quarterly 34(9): 1517-1531. tandfonline.com
Escobar, A. (1991). "Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology." American Ethnologist 18(4): 658-682. jstor.org
Ferguson, J: "The Uses of Neoliberalism" in Antipode 41(1), 2010. Pp 166-184 (18 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Gardner, B. (2012). "Tourism and the politics of the global land grab in Tanzania: markets, appropriation and recognition." Journal of Peasant Studies 39(2): 377-402. tandfonline.com
Hilgers, Mathieu (2012) The historicity of the neoliberal state. Social Anthropology, 20 (1): 80–94. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Hyndman, David (1995) Afek and Rebaibal: Ideologies of social protest and the Ok Tedi mining project in Papua New Guinea. The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 104 (1): 75–88. jstor.org
Lazar, S. (2012). "A desire to formalize work? Comparing trade union strategies in Bolivia and Argentina." Anthropology of Work Review 33(1): 15-24. anthrosource.net
Li, T. M. (2014). "What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39(4): 589-602. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Millar, K. (2014). "The Precarious Present: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." Cultural Anthropology 29(1): 32-53. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Mollona, M. (2005). "Factory, family and neighbourhood: the political economy of informal labour in Sheffield." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11(3): 527-548. jstor.org
Muehlebach, A. (2011). "On affective labor in post-fordist Utaly." Cultural Anthropology 26(1): 59-82. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Prentice, R. (2012). "“No One Ever Showed Me Nothing”: Skill and Self-Making among Trinidadian Garment Workers." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 43(4): 400-414. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Richard, A. and D. Rudnyckyj (2009). "Economies of affect." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15(1): 57-77. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Rizzo, M. (2013). "Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study." Review of African Political Economy 40(136): 290-308. tandfonline.com
Tsing, A. (2009). "Supply Chains and the Human Condition." Rethinking Marxism 21(2): 148-176. tandfonline.com
Wacquant, Loïc (2012) Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism. Social Anthropology, 20 (1): 66–79. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Further Readings (not compulsory): download pdf-file