Production, Work and Consumption
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 doctoral research project within the thematic area of Production, Work and Consumption;
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.
General characterization
Code
73200107
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Maria dos Anjos Maltez Cardeira da Silva
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- APPADURAI, Arjun (ed.) 1986 The Social Life of Things. Cambridge,Cambridge U. Press New York Press;
- HANN, C. & PARRY, J. 2018 Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books;
- HIRSH, E. 2001 Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work, Oxford: Berg;
- HODSON, R. et al. 2005 "The benefits of being there: evidence from the literature on work" in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, vol.34 (4): 470-493;
- ISHERWOOD, B. C. & DOUGLAS, M. 1996[1979]. The World of Goods:Towards an Anthropology of Consumption, New York: Routledge.
Teaching method
Teaching Methodologies: Transferring of general competences within a classroom context (problematization, research design, types of tools and scenarios for managing and implementing research); tutorial supervision, discussion activities designed to enable the acquisition of competencies and habits of reflection, intersubjective critique and clear expression of knowledge.
Workshops with invited speakers who have done research in the domain of the current projects.
Evaluation method
Assessment - Students participation and presentation of the final draft of the thesis project(100%)
Subject matter
Students should develop their research projects leading to the design of their PhD dissertation in Anthropology, Production, Work and Consumption. This process will be mentored by tutors. The common learning features aim at sorting out possible interconnections between theoretical and conceptual idioms and relevant methodologies for the drawing up of concrete 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.