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Self, Culture and Society

reading list, Spring 2023


John Kelly

Part One
What is Social Science?
Postmodern and Postcolonial Reconsiderations

Week One Social Science paradigms?


1.1 launch of course: paradigms, in retrospect and prospect

1.2 Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) chs 1-6
(pp.1-65).

Week Two
2.1 Kuhn, contd. chs. 7-10. (66-135)

2.2 Kuhn, rest. chs. 11-13 and 1969 postscript (136-210)

Week Three Foucault: paradigm change, or what?


3.1 Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1
Part One “We ‘Other Victorians’” (1-13)

3.2 Foucault, cont’d.


Part Two “The Repressive Hypothesis” (17-49)

Week Four power, knowledge, pleasure; discourse and materiality


4.1 Foucault, cont’d.
Part Four “The Deployment of Sexuality” (77-131)

4.2 Foucault, cont’d.


Part Five “Right of Death and Power Over Life” (135-159)

[[ note: some instructors prefer Discipline and Punish (1975) over The History of
Sexuality vol.1. (1976). If you are undecided, see notes on Foucault choice, below.
In either case, Foucault follows Kuhn, considering dates and tone. ]]

Week Five Postcoloniality


5.1 Edward Said, Orientalism “Introduction” (pp.1-28)
(add, if you wish examples, either ch1 or ch3 listed next; ch.1
covers
earlier and obscure examples, ch3 Napoleon, text and conquest
stories)

5.2 Said, Orientalism, cont’d “The Scope of Orientalism”


either entire (pp.31-110)

1
or ch.1 “Knowing the Oriental” (31-49)
and/or ch.3 “Projects” (73-92)
and/or ch.4 “Crisis” (92-110)
---and/or---
Foucault, ch. 3, “Scientia Sexualis” (H of S vo.1 pp.53-73)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in
Postcolonial?”
[[ add the Foucault chapter if you wish your class to confront
Foucault’s orientalism; Appiah if you want to discuss
postcoloniality and postmodernism in relation to each other,
and/or Africa & Asia)

Part Two
Some Contemporary Issues

Week Six The Human impact upon the environment


6.1 The Challenge of the Anthropocene, to all other politics
Dipesh Chakrabarty “The Climate of History: Four Theses”
---and/or---
Chakrabarty, “Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate
Change”
---and/or---
Chakrabarty, “Climate and Capital: On Conjoined Histories”

6.2 Challenges to the Anthropocene narrative


Eric Swyngedouw, “Whose Environment? The End of Nature, Climate
Change
and the Process of Post-Politicization”
---and/or---
Andreas Malm and Alf Hornborg, “The geology of mankind? A critique
of the
Anthropocene narrative.”
---and/or---
Prasenjit Duara, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a
Sustainable Future “Introduction” and ch.1.

Week Seven Third-Wave Feminism, inside and outside the West


7.1 Judith Butler “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”
---and/or---
Butler, “Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic
Discourse”
---and/or---
Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women”

7.2 Saba Mahmood, “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent:

2
Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival”
---and/or---
Amia Srinivasan “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?”

Week Eight The engineering of facts and its limits


8.1 Bruno Latour, “War and Peace of Microbes” Intro. & chapters 1,3,4 (1-
59,111-150)

8.2 Jeffrey Bennett, “The “Bad” Kill: A Short Case Study in American
Counterinsurgency”
(pp.311-325 in Anthropology and Global
Counterinsurgency)
Latour, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to
Matters of Concern”

Week 9.1 Self, Culture, Society and Schizophrenia


9.1 Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a
Black Disease
Preface, Part 1, Part 3, Part 6.

Week 9.2, Ten Globalization and the rise of global cities


9.2 Francis Fukuyama “The End of History?”
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam “Singapore: Global City”

10 Arjun Appadurai “Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the


Horizon of
Politics”

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