Seminar in Power, Resistance and Social Movements
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
The students should develop their research projects leading to the design of their PhD thesis in Power, Resistance and Social Movements. This process will be mentored by all supervisors/researchers involved and students attendance to the course.
The common learning features aim at sorting out possible interconnections between theoretical and conceptual idioms and relevant methodologies for the drawing up of current research projects.
The seminar includes sessions to discuss work in progress, being selected according to this área of specialization and the students research topics.
Specific analytical perspectives will be reviewed as part of tutorial mentoring.
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.