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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Public Policy
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Limor Samimian-Darash
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Prof Limor Darash
Course/Module description:
The course has two purposes. First, to examine policy as a social-cultural and historical phenomenon. Second, to clarify the connection between technology and society, while introducing the main theoretical approaches in the field. Finally, we will examine how policies are designed, developed, and executed, with particular attention to the regimes of truth and power within which they appear.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To examine policy as a social-cultural and historical phenomenon.
To understand the connection between technology and society, and know the main theoretical approaches in the field.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Mandatory attendance and active participation - 20%
Article presentation - 20%
Final paper - 60% (of which 10% for presenting it in class)
Course/Module Content:
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Required Reading:
וובר, מקס. 2009.”המדע כייעוד". תכלת 39: 98- 128.
Rabinow, Paul. 2007. "Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary". Pp. 1- 11, 54-65. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University press.
Shore, Cris, and Susan Wright. 2011. “Conceptualizing Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility.” In Policy Worlds: Anthropology and Analysis of Contemporary Power. Shore, Cris, Susan Wright, and David Pero (Eds.). Pp. 1-25. New York: Berghahn Books.
Wedel, Janine R., Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, and Stacy Lathrop. 2005. “Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 600(1): 30-51.
Ferguson, James, and Gupta, Akhil. 2002. “Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality". American Ethnologist 29(4): 981-1002.
Scott, James C. 1998. "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed". Pp. 1-52. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Foucault, Michel 2007. "Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78". Pp. 55-86, 115-134. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dean, Mitchell. 1999. “Basic Concepts and Themes.” In Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society". Pp. 16-51. London: Sage.
פוקו, מישל. 2008. "תולדות המיניות I: הרצון לדעת". עמ' 113-123. תל-אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד.
פוקו, מישל. 2008. "תולדות המיניות II: השימוש בתענוגות". עמ' 7-34. תל-אביב: רסלינג.
Porter, Theodore M. 1996. "Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life". Pp. 3-9. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Brenneis, Don. 1994. “Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman". Cultural Anthropology (9):23-36.
פוקו, מישל. 1986. "תולדות השיגעון בעידן התבונה". עמ' 56-11. ירושלים: כתר.
Petryna, Adriana. 2013. “Biological Citizenship". In Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Pp. 115-148. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Samimian-Darash, Limor. 2013. “Governing Future Potential Biothreats: Toward an Anthropology of Uncertainty". Current Anthropology 54(1)
Samimian-Darash, Limor. 2011. “Governing through time: preparing for future threats to health and security". Sociology of Health & Illness 33 (6).
Samimian-Darash, Limor. 2017. “Anthropology of security and security in anthropology: Cases of counterterrorism in the United States". Anthropological Theory 17 (1)
Samimian-Darash, Limor and Rotem, Nir. 2019. “From Crisis to Emergency: The Shifting Logic of Preparedness". Journal of Anthropology 84 (5)
Additional Reading Material:
Samimian-Darash, Limor. 2011. “The Re-Forming State: Actions and Repercussions in Preparing for Future Biological Events". Anthropological Theory 11(3): 283-307.
Trouillot, Michel R. 2001. “The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind". Current Anthropology 42(1): 125-138.
Foucault, Michel. 2008. “Course Summary". In The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Colle'ge De France 1978-79. Translated by Graham Burchell. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Foucault, Michel. 2003. "The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984". Rabinow, Paul, and Nikolas S. Rose (Eds.). Pp. 18-24, 58-63. New York: New Press.
Hacking, Ian. 1991. “How Should We Do the History of Statistics?” in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Burchell, Graham et al. (Eds.). Pp.185-195. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Calhoun, Craig. 2004. “A World of Emergencies: Fear, Intervention, and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Order". Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie 41(4): 373–395.
Hacking, Ian. 1986. “Making Up People". In Reconstructing Individualism. Heller, Thomas L., and Brooke-Rose, Christine (Eds.). Pp. 161-171. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Shore, Cris, and Wright, Susan. 1999. “Audit Culture and Anthropology: Neo-liberalism in British Higher Education". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5(4): 557-575.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 60 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 20 %
presentation
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