Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Seminário de Especialidade em Poder, Resistência e Movimentos Sociais (not translated)

Code

73200106

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Antropologia

Credits

10

Weekly hours

2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

At the end of the seminar the students will be able to:
a) Develop theoretical, analytical and methodological skills and competencies that would allow them to design and write a PhD research project within the thematic area Power, resistance and Social Movements;
b) Draw up (an initial) available literature review related to the research problem they have outlined;
c) Acquire the ability to integrate their research issues within the main debates and analytical viewpoints which characterise this anthropological area of study, in a sustained and critical manner.

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

Bibliography

DENZIN, Norman K. e Lincoln, Yvonna S. (eds) (1994) Handbook of Qualitative Research, London, Sage.
DELLA PORTA, Donatella; DIANI, Mário (1999) Social Movements: an introduction, London, Blackwell.
SCOTT, James (1985) Weapons of the weak - Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (1990) Domination and the arts of Resistance- Hidden Transcripts, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
TARROW, Sidney (1994) Power in movement - Social movements, collective action and politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
THOMPSON, E.P. (1971) [2008] A economia moral da multidão na Inglaterra do século XVIII, Lisboa, Antígona.

Teaching method

Transferring of general competences (from problematization to research design and of the types of tools and scenarios for managing and implementing research) within a classroom context, tutorial guidance, discussion activities designed to enable the acquisition of competencies and habits of reflection, intersubjective critique and the clear expression of knowledge.

Evaluation method

Students participation and presentation of the final draft of the thesis project.

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