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POLS 4637

State and Power

A theory-heavy seminar that asks what the state actually *is* once you stop treating it as a self-evident object, tracing how it gets constituted through bureaucratic fields, disciplinary techniques, networks of calculation, and the material infrastructure of capitalism. You read Weber, Althusser, Skocpol, Tilly, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Latour in close succession, and the workload reflects that: roughly twelve short response papers across the term, sustained discussion, and a poster presentation that forces you to synthesize a position. It sits at the upper end of the POLS curriculum, building on earlier political theory and comparative politics courses, and is most useful if you are heading toward graduate work where you need to argue about power without leaning on textbook definitions.

Kredi3ECTS5FakülteFaculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social SciencesBölümPolitical Science and Public AdministrationKoordinatörOnur Özgöde

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 114–20 Eyl
Devlet I: klasik yaklaşımlar, Weber ve Althusser
State I: Classical Approaches: Weber, Max. 1958. “Politics as Vocation.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, 77¬-128. Oxford University Press; Althusser, L. (1971). “Ideological State Apparatuses”, in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Monthly Review Press.
Max WeberAlthusserideological state apparatusesPolitics as Vocation
Hafta 221–27 Eyl
Devlet II: eleştiriler, Skocpol ve Tilly
State II: Critics: Skocpol, Theda. 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research.” In Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. 3-37. Cambridge University Press. Tilly, Charles. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. 169-91. Cambridge University Press. Mitchell, Timothy. 1991. “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics.” American Political Science Review 85(1):77-96. Steinmetz, George. 1999. “Introduction: Culture and the State.” In State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural Turn, edited by George Steinmetz. 1¬-49. Cornell University Press.
SkocpolTillyBringing the State Back InTimothy Mitchell
Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki
Bilgi ve iktidar: Foucault okumaları
Week 3. Knowledge and Power: • Foucault, Michel. 1972. “The Discourse on Language.” In The Archeology of Knowledge, 215-237. Pantheon. • Foucault, Michel 1977. “Two Lectures.” In Power/Knowledge. Colin Gordon, ed. Pantheon Books: 78-108. • Foucault, Michel. 1979. "Panopticism." Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 195-228. Vintage.
Michel FoucaultThe Discourse on LanguagePower/KnowledgePanopticism
Hafta 45–11 Eki
Devlet ve iktidar: governmentality
Week 4. State and Power: Foucault, Michel. 2007. Security, Territory, Population. Picador. (Lectures 1-4) Collier, Stephen J. 2009. “Topologies of Power Foucault’s Analysis of Political Government beyond ‘Governmentality.’” Theory, Culture & Society 26 (6): 78-108.
Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, PopulationStephen J. Colliertopologies of powergovernmentality
Hafta 512–18 Eki
Mücadele alanı olarak devlet: Bourdieu
State as a Field of Struggle: Bourdieu, Pierre. 1999. “Rethinking the State: Genesis and the Structure of the Bureaucratic Field.” In State/Culture, edited by George Steinmetz. 53-75. Cornell University Press. Bourdieu, Pierre. 2015. On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992. Polity. (Lectures of 10 & 17 January, 1990, 7¬-21 February and 14 March, 1991; Pp. 105-35, 162¬-205 & 220-34)
Pierre Bourdieubureaucratic fieldOn the StateState/Culture
Hafta 619–25 Eki
Ders yok: bahar tatili
No Classes, Spring Break
bahar tatili
Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas
Actor-network olarak devlet I
State as Actor-Network I: Callon, Michel, and Bruno Latour. 1981. “Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How Actors Macro-Structure Reality and Sociologists Help Them to Do So.” In Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, 277-303. Routledge. Latour, Bruno. 1987. “Centres of Calculation.” In Science in Action. 215¬-257. Harvard University Press.
actor-networkUnscrewing the Big Leviathancentres of calculationCallon
Hafta 82–8 Kas
Actor-network olarak devlet II
State as Actor-Network II: Latour, Bruno. 2009. The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d’Etat. Polity. Latour, Bruno. 2007. “How to Think Like a State.” P-133 La Haye. 1¬-8.
The Making of LawConseil d'EtatHow to Think Like a StateLatour
Hafta 99–15 Kas
Altyapı olarak devlet: Mann ve Mitchell
State as Infrastructure: Mann, Michael. 1984. “The Autonomous Power of the State : Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results.” European Journal of Sociology 25 (2): 185-213. Mitchell, Timothy. 2009. “Carbon Democracy.” Economy and Society 38 (3): 399-432.
Michael Mannautonomous power of the stateCarbon DemocracyTimothy Mitchell
Hafta 1016–22 Kas
Devlet ve piyasa I: Polanyi
State and the Market I: Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. MA: Beacon Press.
Karl PolanyiThe Great Transformationpiyasa
Hafta 1123–29 Kas
Devlet ve piyasa II: Callon
State and the Market II: Callon, Michel. 2021. Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. Zone Books. (Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 7, and 8)
Michel CallonMarkets in the Makingcompetitioninnovation
Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara
Devlet, toplumsal cinsiyet ve ırk
State, Gender, and Race: Brown, Wendy. (1992). Finding the man in the state. Feminist Studies, 18(1), 7-34. Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. 2000. “The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid.” In Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Pp. 195¬-227. MIT Press.
Wendy BrownBowker & Starrace classificationapartheid
Hafta 137–13 Ara
Devlet ve doğa: Jasanoff ve Latour
State and Nature: Jasanoff, Sheila. 2005. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press. • Latour, Bruno. 2004. “Exploring Common Worlds.” In Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.
Sheila JasanoffDesigns on NatureBruno LatourPolitics of Nature
Hafta 1414–20 Ara
Devlet ve polycrisis: iklim, virüs, demokrasi
State and the Polycrisis of Climate, Viruses, and Democracy: Tooze, Adam. 2021. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy. Viking. Latour, Bruono. 2021. After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis. Polity
polycrisisAdam ToozeShutdownAfter Lockdown

Değerlendirme 35% · 3 adım

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Papers(s)/Reports Weekly Memos 15%
In-class participation Participation 20%
Poster Presentation Presentation 0%

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