996014 Critical States and Cocaine Connections: an ethnography of trans-national organised crime in Bissau (S) (WiSe 2016/2017)

The seminar pairs the methodology (ethnography) with a focus on grounded theory. This makes it possible to have a closer look on the field site, define the empirical material, and discuss the emerging theoretical insight.

Schedule:

Day 1

Texts:
Corbin, Juliet M., and Anselm Strauss. 1990. "Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria." Qualitative sociology 13.1: 3-21.

Stoller, Paul. 1997. "Globalizing method: The problems of doing ethnography in transnational spaces." Anthropology and Humanism 22.1: 81-94.

Nordstrom, C. 1997. “Chapter 1. Creativity, violence and the scholar.” A different kind of war story. Philidelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press

Yates, Joe. 2004. "Criminological ethnography: risks, dilemmas and their negotiation." British Journal of Community Justice 3: 19-32.

Lecture: Critical states and cocaine connections

Day 2

Texts:
Nader, Laura. 2011. "Ethnography as theory." HAU: Journal of ethnographic theory 1.1: 211-219.

Vigh, Henrik. 2006. "Social death and violent life chances." Navigating youth–generating adulthood: social becoming in an African context. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.

Scott, James C. 1998. “Chapter 9. Thin simplification and practical knowledge: Metis.” Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven: Yale University Press

Lecture: Conflict, crime and social navigation

Further Information:
http://anthropology.ku.dk/research/research-projects/current-projects/distortion/participants/henrik_vigh/

Bibliography

Corbin, Juliet M., and Anselm Strauss. 1990. "Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria." Qualitative sociology 13.1: 3-21.

Nader, Laura. 2011. "Ethnography as theory." HAU: Journal of ethnographic theory 1.1: 211-219.

Nordstrom, C. 1997. “Chapter 1. Creativity, violence and the scholar.” A different kind of war story. Philidelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press

Scott, James C. 1998. “Chapter 9. Thin simplification and practical knowledge: Metis.” Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven: Yale University Press

Stoller, Paul. 1997. "Globalizing method: The problems of doing ethnography in transnational spaces." Anthropology and Humanism 22.1: 81-94.

Yates, Joe. 2004. "Criminological ethnography: risks, dilemmas and their negotiation." British Journal of Community Justice 3: 19-32.

Vigh, Henrik. 2006. "Social death and violent life chances." Navigating youth–generating adulthood: social becoming in an African context. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.