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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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No Classes – Spring Break
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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.
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Week 8. State and Sovereignty: Bodin, J. 1992 [1593]. “Book 1, Chapter 8: On Sovereignty.” In On Sovereignty. Erlenbusch, Verena. 2013. “The Place of Sovereignty.” Critical Horizons 14 (1): 44–69.
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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
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State and the Market I: Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. MA: Beacon Press.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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