Anthropology and Organisations
Code
722170081
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Analysis of various types of organisations and how they are structures to intervene in several spheres of social life;
The international organisations and their role in the spreading of imperialist ideologies centered in the \"west\" in several contetxs;
Perspectives of the action of the organisations and the impacts of their action.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
The role of ideology in organisations;
Main trasnanational organisations and their role in the economy and in society;
Participation of anthropologists and other social scientists in organisations,
Bibliography
FISHER, W. F. (1997) Doing good? The politics and antipolitics of NGO practices, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 26, pp. 439-464
GOLDMAN, M. (2001) The birth of a discipline: Producing authoritative green knowledge, World Bank-Style, Ethnography 2001; 2; 191-217
KEARNEY, M. (1995) The local and the global: The Anthropology of globalisation and transnationalism, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol.24, pp.547-65,
STIRRAT, R.L. (2000) Cultures of consultancy, Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 20(1) 3146
WRIGHT, S. (1994) Anthropology of Organizations, London, Routledge
Teaching method
The seminars rest on the reading of relevant texts, recommended for each session, by all the students and the discussion of the proposed themes.
Evaluation method
The evaluation components consist of the participation in the seminars (20%) and an essay reflecting the acquisitions of knowlwdge during the semestre (60%).