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King’s Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre
KISS222 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH FOR POLITICAL
ANALYSIS
Dr Humeira Iqtidar
[email protected]
Department of Political Economy
2015-16
Summer
Workshop
K0.50 King’s Bldg., Strand
1
3 hours
6 May 2016
1-4pm
This module will entail a discussion about whether and how
ethnographic methods can be used to ask different questions from
the ones that anthropologists traditionally ask. Ethnography is a
great method for providing thick description of how people do
different things in multiple contexts. Political analysis explores
‘why’ questions. This course will show how ethnography can be a
useful method in answering such enquiries in specific contexts.
Scott, J. (1985), Weapons of the Weak, New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press.
Gupta, A., Sharma, A. (eds), (2006), The Anthropology of the State,
London: Blackwell.
Emerson, R., Fretz, R., Shaw, L. (1995), Writing Ethnographic
Fieldnotes, Chicage, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Iqtidar, H., (2011), Secularizing Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and
Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Urban Pakistan, Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago.
Best suited to first year students who have not yet embarked upon
fieldwork. This course is for anyone doing ethnography who is
interested in asking ‘why’ questions.
Students will be expected to read some material before the session.
Check the KISS222 tab on the KISS DTC Summer Term Courses
KEATS page.
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