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Undergraduate Course: Political Work (PLIT10093)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaPolitics Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionWhat do people do when they are doing politics? What does politics consist of? What is political work and how is it done? This course seeks to explore the microsociology of the political process, drawing on a range of perspectives from different disciplines.

The course is organized in three sections, with varying emphases on actors, actions and artefacts. A first section focuses on what we might take core activities of engagement or activism, representation and administration in turn. It establishes a sense of politics as people doing things, as something carried on between men and women with first and last names. It takes the boundaries of politics to be those not of the territory, but of the room and the street; it begins to study politics from the inside out.

The second section is based on the recognition that political life is essentially word-based, and turns on talk in meetings and on the production and circulation of documents and texts. A third section, in turn, explores its irreducible materiality, investigating the way politics is embedded in artefacts and instuments, machines and technologies, buildings, spaces and human bodies.

A skills strand is woven across these substantive elements, introducing students to the basic research methods of documentary analysis, interview and observation and requiring them to craft case studies their own.

In these ways, the course aims to capture politics in some of its essential social forms. It makes no a priori distinction between the local, the national and the international, or between the disciplines that might be used to understand them. Its intellectual roots are diverse: they include discourse theory and practice theory as well as a range of other approaches across the social sciences.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have at least 4 Politics/International Relations courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.

** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting Student Office directly for admission to this course **
High Demand Course? Yes
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  45
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 12/01/2015
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 30, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 166 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this course will:

-acquire and explore a conception of politics and policy making as a domain of practice or 'work';

-have a detailed understanding of different instances and dimensions of political work;

-develop appropriate ways of interpreting and accounting for it through the critical appreciation of case studies;

-acquire and use essential skills of data collection and analysis in researching and writing case studies of their own;

-in delivering presentations, reflect critically on their own and others' work.

This is not a training course. It will not teach you start a riot, get a job at the UN, form an NGO or become Home Secretary, but it will give you much to reflect on as you do each of these things. It will deepen your fascination with politics, your appreciation of its spectacle, your sense of wonder at the way things happen and that they happen at all. It will help you to think critically about what it means to do politics and whether you want to do it differently.
Assessment Information
The course will be assessed by a 4000 word course paper. This will comprise a case study of some element or aspect of 'political work', and will be derived from empirical investigation by documentary, interview or observational methods. It will provide relevant background and context, draw on secondary literature as appropriate, and offer critical reflection, analysis and discussion. A typical case study might be based on an interview with a practitioner, observation of a meeting or event or the analysis of documents and material artefacts.

Students will be required to present outline proposals for case studies in class. These presentations will function as formative assessment, and will receive oral feedback but will not be awarded a mark. This constitutes a fotmative feedback event.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description The course will be delivered over 11 weeks, in workshops organized around the discussion of case studies, supported by mini-lectures and student presentations. It will normally be taken by students in their third year of undergraduate study.
Syllabus 1. political work
2. activism
3. representation
4. administration
5. meetings
6. documents
7. researching political work
8. political things: artefacts, bodies
9. political space: buildings, places
10. presentations
11. conclusion & revision
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list political work: politics, policy and practice

politics as the production of collectively binding decisions; work and its connotations; the idea of practice: action, knowledge and norms; sources and implications of thinking of politics as practice and practice as politics

key reading

Callon, M and Latour, B (1981) 'Unscrewing the big Leviathan: how actors macro-structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so', in Knorr-Cetina, K D and Cicourel, A V (eds) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: toward an integration of micro and macro-sociologies, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Markoff, J (1999) 'Where and when was democracy invented?', Comparative Studies in Society and History 41 (4) 660-690
Reckwitz, A (2002) 'Toward a theory of social practices. A development in culturalist theorizing', European Journal of Social Theory 5 243¿263

further reading

Adler, E and Pouliot, V (eds) (2011) The Practice Turn in International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Adler and Pouliot 'International practices'
Ball, S J (1993) 'What is policy? Texts, trajectories, toolboxes', Discourse 13 (2) 10-17
Bevir, M and Rhodes, R A W (2010) The State as Cultural Practice, Oxford: Oxford UP
Bigo, D (2011) 'Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations: power of practices, practices of power', International Political Sociology 5 225¿258
Clarke, J (2012) 'The work of governing', in Coulter, K and Schumann, W R (eds) Governing Cultures: anthropological perspectives on political labor, power and government, New York: Palgrave
Colebatch, H K (2006) 'What work makes policy?', Policy Sciences 39 (4) 309-321
Enloe, C (2011) 'The mundane matters', International Political Sociology 5 (4) 447-450
Faucher-King, F (2005) Changing Parties: An Anthropology of British Political Party Conferences, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; ch 1 'An anthropological approach to "conventional politics"'
Freeman, R, Griggs, S and Boaz, A (2011) 'The practice of policy making', Evidence and Policy 7 (2) 127-136
Gledhill, J (2000) Power and its Disguises. Anthropological perspectives on politics, London: Pluto; ch 6 'From macro-structure to micro-process: anthropological analysis of political practice'
Hoppe, R (1999) 'Policy analysis, science and politics: from 'speaking truth to power' to 'making sense together', Science and Public Policy 26 (3) 201-210
Kubik, J (2009) 'Ethnography of politics: foundations, applications, prospects', in Schatz, E (ed) Political Ethnography. What immersion contributes to the study of power, Chicago: Chicago UP
Miettinen, R, Samra-Fredericks, D and Yanow, D (2009) 'Re-turn to practice: an introductory essay', Organization Studies 30 (12) 1309¿1327
Paley, J (2002) 'Toward an anthropology of democracy', Annual Review of Anthropology 31 469¿96
Wagenaar, H and Cook, S D N (2003) 'Understanding policy practices: action, dialectic and deliberation in policy analysis', in Hajer, M A and Wagenaar, H (eds) Deliberative Policy Analysis. Understanding governance in the network society, Cambridge: Cambridge UP


activism

demonstrating; organizing; volunteering; new and traditional forms; norms and alternatives; acting, performance and spectacle; demonstration: political and scientific; knowledge, information and communication

case studies

Barry, A (1999) 'Demonstrations: sites and sights of direct action', Economy and Society 28 (1) 75-94
Dave, N N (2011) 'Activism as ethical practice: Queer politics in contemporary India', Cultural Dynamics 23 (1) 3-20
Greenberg, M 'In Zucotti Park', New York Review of Books, 10 November 2011, 8 December 2011, 9 February 2012; http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/zuccotti-park/

further reading

Bang, H P and Sørensen, E (1999) 'The everyday maker: a new challenge to democratic governance', Administrative Theory & Praxis 21 (33) 325-341
Berry, C and Gabay, C (2009) 'Transnational political action and "global civil society" in practice: the case of Oxfam', Global Networks 9 (3) 339¿358
Cully and Angelique (2003) 'Women's gendered experiences and long-term Three-Mile Island activists', Gender and Society 17 (3)
Davis, K (2002) 'Feminist body/politics as world traveller. Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves', European Journal of Women¿s Studies, 9 (3) 223¿247
Gorringe, H and Rosie, M (2006) ¿¿Pants to Poverty¿? Making Poverty History, Edinburgh 2005¿, Sociological Research Online 11 (1)
Hendriks, F and Tops, P (2005) 'Everyday fixers as local heroes: a case study of vital interaction in urban governance', Local Government Studies 31 (4) 475-490
Jasper, J (1997) The Art of Moral Protest, Chicago: U Chicago P «googlebook»
Jossin, A (2010) 'How do activists experience transnational protest events? The case of young global justice activists from Germany and France', in Teune, S (ed) The Transnational Condition: protest dynamics in an entangled Europe, Oxford: Berghahn; «googlebook»
Juris, J (2005) 'Violence performed and imagined', Critique of Anthropology 25 (4) 413-432
Léséleuc, E de, Gleyse, J and Marcellini , A (2002) 'The practice of sport as political expression?: rock climbing at Claret, France', International Sociology 2002 17 (1) 73-90
Lovell, T (2003) 'Resisting with authority: historical specificity, agency and the performative self', Theory, Culture & Society 20(1) 1-17
Maiba, H (2005) 'Grassroots transnational social movement activism: the case of People's Global Action', Sociological Focus 38 (1) 41-63
Riles, A (2001) The Network Inside Out, Ann Arbor: U Michigan P; ch 6 'Filling in the action'
Smith, A (2010) Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives. Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance, Manchester: Manchester UP
Wagner, D and Cohen, M (1991) 'The power of the people' Social Problems 38 (4) 543-561


representation

the parliamentarian; the diplomat; advisers and consultants; n-way representation; representation: political and pictorial; Plato's Cave; scripts: bureaucratic and heroic; negotiation; performance: front stage and back stage; breakdown and repair

case studies

Honig, O A (2008) 'The whisper in the leader¿s ear: how do foreign policy advisers perform their job?' International Relations 22 (2) 221-241
Neumann, I B (2005) 'To be a diplomat', International Studies Perspectives 6 72¿93
Wodak, R (2009) The Discourse of Politics in Action: politics as usual, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan; ch 4: 'One day in the life of an MEP'

further reading

Carter, C A (2009) 'Parliamentary committee work, organizational knowledge and EU engagement: a framework for analysis', draft ms, University of Edinburgh
Flynn, P (2012) How To Be An MP, London: Biteback Publishing
Freeman, R (2006) 'Translating trauma', draft ms
Gains, F and Stoker, G (2011) 'Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup', Policy and Politics 39 (4) 485-498
Gusfield, J R (1980) The Culture of Public Problems: drinking-driving and the symbolic order, Chicago: U Chicago P; ch 3 'The fiction and drama of public reality'
Neumann, I B (2002) 'Returning practice to the linguistic turn: the case of diplomacy', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31 627¿652
Pitkin, H F (1967) The Concept of Representation, Berkeley: U California P
Rai, S M (2010) 'Analysing ceremony and ritual in Parliament', Journal of Legislative Studies 16 (3) 284-297
Rosenblatt, G (2007) 'From one of us to one of them: the socialisation of new MPs', Parliamentary Affairs 60 (3) 510¿517
Stubbs, P (2011) '"Managing" consultancy? Charisma, competence and translation in transnational spaces', draft ms


administration

bureaucratic rationality; drafting the law; applying the rules; development: local and international; knowledge and its distribution; situated action; holding things together

case studies

Barnett, M N (1997) 'The UN Security Council, Indifference, and Genocide in Rwanda', Cultural Anthropology 12 (4) 551-578
Healey, P (1992) 'A planner's day: knowledge and action in communicative practice', Journal of the American Planning Association 58 (1) 9-20
Wagenaar, H (2004) ''Knowing' the rules: administrative work as practice', Public Administration Review 64 (6) 643¿656

further reading

Barry, A (2002) 'In the middle of the network', in Law, J and Mol, A (eds) (2002) Complexities. Social studies of knowledge practices, Durham: Duke UP
Biegelbauer, P and Grießler, E (2009) 'Politische Praktiken von MinisterialbeamtInnen im österreichischen Gesetzgebungsprozess', Österreichische Zeitschrift fu¿r Politikwissenschaft 1 61¿77 [English translation available as pdf]
Bueger, C (2011) 'The clash of practice: political controversy and the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission', Evidence and Policy 7 (2) 171¿191
Durose, C (2009) 'Front-line workers and "local knowledge": neighbourhood stories in contemporary UK local governance', Public Administration 87 (1) 35¿49
Geuijen, K, t'Hart, P, Princen, S and Yesilkagit, K (2008) The New Eurocrats: national civil servants in EU policy-making, Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP
Harper, R H R (1997) Inside the IMF: an ethnography of documents, technology and organizational action, San Diego: Academic Press; ch 7 'Desk officers'
Jackson, J T (2005) The Globalizers: development workers in action, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP; ch 5 'Global governance', ch 10 'Rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch'
Landers, B (1999) 'Encounters with the Public Accounts Committee: a personal memoir', Public Administration 77(1) 195-213
Li, T (2007) The Will to Improve: governmentality, development, and the practice of politics, Durham, NC: Duke UP
Maynard-Moody, S and Musheno, M (2000) 'State agent or citizen agent: two narratives of discretion', Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (J-PART) 10 (2) 329-358
Mosse, D (2005) Cultivating Development: an ethnography of aid policy and practice, London: Pluto Press
Mosse, D (ed) (2011) Adventures in Aidland: the anthropology of expertise and professionals in international development, Oxford: Berghahn Books
Rhodes, R A W (2011) Everyday Life in British Government, Oxford: Oxford UP; ch 5: 'The Permanent Secretary'
Stevens, A (2011) 'Telling policy stories: an ethnographic study of the use of evidence in policy-making in the UK', Journal of Social Policy 40 (2) 237-255


meetings

kinds of meeting and kinds of participation; form and content; politics as a form of talk: monologue and dialogue; interview and argument; uncertainty and resolution; decision-making: proposal, confirmation, acceptance; sensemaking; staging

case studies

Kissinger, H (1971) 'My talks with Chou En-lai,' 14 July; National Security Archive 'Kissinger's Secret Trip to China': http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB66/: document 40
Llewellyn, N (2005) 'Audience participation in political discourse: a study of public meetings', Sociology 39 (4) 697-716
Nullmeier, F and Pritzlaff, T (2009) 'The implicit normativity of political practices: analyzing the dynamics and power relations of committee decision-making', Critical Policy Studies 3 (3-4) 357¿374
Wedeen, L (2007) 'The politics of deliberation: qa¯t chews as public spheres in Yemen', Public Culture 19 (1) 59-84

further reading

Andersen, IE and Jfger, B (1999) 'Scenario workshops and consensus conferences', Science and Public Policy 26 (5) 331-340
Faucher-King, F (2005) Changing Parties: An Anthropology of British Political Party Conferences, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Forester, J (1989) 'Listening: the social policy of everyday life', in Forester, J, Planning in the Face of Power, Berkeley: U California Press
Freeman, R (2008) 'Learning by meeting', Critical Policy Analysis 2 (1) 1-24
Galtung, J (1964) 'Summit meetings and international relations', Journal of Peace Research 1 (1) 36-54
Hajer, M A (2005) 'Setting the Stage. A dramaturgy of policy deliberation', Administration and Society 36 (6) 624-647
Hanieh, A (2001) 'The Camp David Papers', Journal of Palestine Studies 30 (2) 75-97
Harper, R H R (1997) Inside the IMF: an ethnography of documents, technology and organizational action, San Diego: Academic Press; ch 8 'A mission to Arcadia'
Latour, B (2003) 'What if we talked politics a little?', Contemporary Political Theory 2 143-164
Litsios, S (2002) 'The long and difficult road to Alma-Ata: a personal reflection', International Journal of Health Services 32 (4) 709-732
Manzo, J F (1996) 'Taking turns and taking sides: opening scenes from two jury deliberations', Social Psychology Quarterly 59 (2) 107¿125
Pritzlaff, T and Nullmeier, F (2011) 'Capturing practice', Evidence and Policy 7 (2) 137-154
Risse, T (2000) '"Let's argue!": Communicative action in world politics', International Organization 54 (1) 1-39
Schwartzman, H B (1987) The significance of meetings in an American mental health center', American Ethnologist, 14 (2) 271-294
Self, J W (2005) 'The first debate over the Debates: how Kennedy and Nixon negotiated the 1960 Presidential Debates', Presidential Studies Quarterly 35 (2) 361-375
Webber, D (1998) 'High midnight in Brussels: an analysis of the September 1993 council meeting on the GATT Uruguay round', Journal of European Public Policy 5 (4) 578-594
Yates, J and Orlikowski, W J (2007) 'The PowerPoint presentation and its corollaries: how genres shape communicative action in organizations', in Zachry, M and Thralls, C (eds) The Cultural Turn: Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions, Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing


documents

government at a distance and over time; dart, medium and artefact; inscriptions; words and numbers; distributed authorship and distributed readership: writing and reading collectively; paper work

case studies

Cambrosio, A, Limoges, C and Pronovost, D (1990) 'Representing biotechnology: an ethnography of Quebec science policy', Social Studies of Science 20 (2) 195-227
Edwards, G (2007) 'How the World Health Organization 1977 report on alcohol-related disabilities came to be written: a provisional analysis', Addiction 102 1711-1721

further reading

Apthorpe, R (1997) 'Writing development policy and policy analysis', in Shore, C and Wright, S (eds) Anthropology and Policy, London: Routledge; googlebook
Berridge, V (ed) (2002) 'Witness seminar: The Black Report and The Health Divide', Contemporary British History 16 (3) 131-172
Brown, A D (2000) 'Making sense of inquiry sensemaking', Journal of Management Studies 37 (1) 45-75
Brown, J S and Duguid, P (1996) 'The social life of documents' «http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue1/documents/index.html»
Feldman, M S (1989) Order without Design. Information production and policy making, Stanford, CA: Stanford UP; part II What Bureaucratic analysts do: ch 4 'Report writing' [googlebook]
Freeman, R (2006) 'The work the document does. Research, policy and equity in health', Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31 (1) 51-70
Freeman, R and Maybin, J (2011) 'Documents, practices and policy', Evidence and Policy 7 (2) 155-170
Garfinkel, H (1984 [1967]) Studies in Ethnomethodology, Cambridge: Polity; ch 6 ''Good' organizational reasons for 'bad' clinic records'; also in Turner, R (ed) (1974) Ethnomethodology, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Gayon, V (2009) 'Un atelier d¿écriture internationale: l'OCDE au travail. Éléments de sociologie de la forme «rapport»', Sociologie du Travail 51, 324¿342
Harper, R and Sellen, A (1995) Paper-Supported Collaborative Work, Technical Report EPC-1995-109, Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge: Rank Xerox www.research.microsoft.com/.../paper%20supported%20work%2095.pdf
Harper, R H R (1997) Inside the IMF: an ethnography of documents, technology and organizational action, San Diego: Academic Press; ch 9 'The use of a staff report'
Hogg, W (2004) 'Plus ça change: continuity, change and culture in Canadian foreign policy White Papers,' International Journal 59 521-536
Law, J and Mol, A (2006) 'Globalisation in practice: on the politics of boiling pigswill', Geoforum 39 (2008) 133¿143
Lindholm, T (1992) 'Article 1: a new beginning', in Eide, A, Alfredsson, G, Melander, G, Rehof, L A, Rosas, A and Swinehart, T (eds) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a commentary, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press
Miller, N and Morgan, D (1993) 'Called to account: the CV as an autobiographical practice', Sociology 27 133-143
Neumann, I B (2007) '"A speech that the entire Ministry may stand for," or: why diplomats never produce anything new', International Political Sociology 1 183¿200
Riles, A (2001) The Network Inside Out, Ann Arbor: U Michigan P; ch 3 'Infinity within the brackets', ch 5 'Designing the facts'
Riles, A (ed) (2006) Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, Ann Arbor: U Michigan P
Sloat, A (2003) 'The preparation of the governance white paper', Politics 23 (2) 128-136
Smith, D E (1984) 'Textually mediated social organization', International Social Science Journal 36 (1) 59-76
Smith, D E (1990) Texts, Facts and Femininity. Exploring the relations of ruling, London: Routledge
Smith, D E (2001) 'Texts and the ontology of organizations and institutions', Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies 7 159-198


researching political work

documents, interviews, observation; writing and analysing case studies

Becker, H (2007) Telling about Society, Chicago: U Chicago P
Dargie, C (1998) 'Observation in political research: a qualitative approach', Politics 18 (1) 65-71
Gerring, J (2004) 'What is a case study and what is it good for?' American Political Science Review 98 (2) 341-354
Gilliat-Ray, S (2011) ¿"Being there": the experience of shadowing a British Muslim Hospital chaplain', Qualitative Research 11 (5) 469¿486
Maanen, J van (1988) Tales of the Field. On writing ethnography, Chicago: U Chicago P
Mosse, D (2006) 'Anti-social anthropology? Objectivity, objection and the ethnography of public policy and professional communities', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12 935-956
Moug, P (2007) 'Non-participative observation in political research: the 'poor' relation?', Politics 27 (2) 108¿114
Nicolini, D (2009) 'Zooming in and out: studying practices by switching theoretical lenses and trailing connections', Organization Studies 30 (12) 1391-1418
Pachirat, T (2009) 'The political in political ethnography: dispatches from the kill floor', in Schatz, E (ed) Political Ethnography. What immersion contributes to the study of power, Chicago: Chicago UP
Puwar, N. (1997) 'Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs', Sociological Research Online 2 (1) «http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/1/4.html»
Richards, D (1996) 'Elite interviewing: approaches and pitfalls', Politics 16 (3) 199-204
Willner, R (2011) 'Micro-politics: an underestimated field of qualitative research in political science', German Policy Studies 7 (3) 155-185
Yanow, D (2000) Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis, Thousand Oaks: Sage

Forester, J, Peters, S and Hittleman, M (2005) Profiles of Practitioners. Practice stories from the field http://courses2.cit.cornell.edu/fit117/index.htm


political things: artefacts, bodies

the politics of things: technology and power; the table; machines, instruments; boundary objects; translation; body and emotion

case studies

Carter, P (2011) 'Governing welfare reform symbolically: evidence based or iconic policy?', Critical Policy Studies 5 (3) 247-263
Coles, K A (2004) 'Election day: the construction of democracy through technique', Cultural Anthropology 19 (4) 551¿580
Mahler, M (2006) 'Politics as a vocation: notes toward a sensualist understanding of political engagement', Qualitative Sociology 29 281-300

further reading

Foucault, M (1980) 'On popular justice: a discussion with Maoists', in Foucault, M Power/Knowledge. Selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977, edited by Colin Gordon, Brighton: Harvester
Holmes, M (2004) 'Introduction: The importance of being angry: anger in political life', European Journal of Social Theory 7 (2) 123-132
Ng, K H and Kidder, J L (2010) 'Toward a theory of emotive performance: with lessons from how politicians do anger', Sociological Theory 28 (2) 193-214
Paley, J (2001) 'Making democracy count: opinion polls and market surveys in the Chilean political transition', Cultural Anthropology 16 (2) 135-164
Reckwitz, A (2002) 'The status of the "material" in theories of culture: from "social structure" to "artefacts"', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32 (2) 195-217
Star, S L and Griesemer, J R (1989) 'Institutional ecology, 'translations' and boundary objects: amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39', Social Studies of Science 19 387-420
Torpey, J (2000) The Invention of the Passport. Surveillance, citizenship and the state, Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Winner, L (1980) 'Do artifacts have politics?' Daedalus 109 121-136

Jacqueline Hassink: The Table of Power: http://www.jacquelinehassink.com/


political space: buildings, spaces

case studies

Salter, M B (2007) 'Governmentalities of an airport: heterotopia and confession', International Political Sociology 1 49¿66

further reading

Abercrombie, M L J (1971) 'Face to face ¿ proximity and distance', in Douglas, M (ed) (1973) Rules and Meanings, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Cochrane, A (2006) 'Making up meanings in a capital city: power, memory and monuments in Berlin', European Urban and Regional Studies 13 (1) 5¿24
Darian-Smith, E (2002) 'Beating the bounds: law, identity and territory in the new Europe', in Greenhouse, C J, Mertz, E and Warren, K B (eds) Ethnography in Unstable Places, Durham, Duke UP
Goodsell, C (1988) 'The architecture of Parliaments: legislative houses and political culture', British Journal of Political Science 18 (3) 287¿302
Laurier, E and Philo, C (2007) ''A parcel of muddling muckworms': revisiting Habermas and the English coffee-houses', Social and Cultural Geography, 8 (2) 259-281
Lawn, M (1999) 'Designing teaching: the classroom as a technology', in Grosvenor, I, Lawn , M and Rousmaniere, K (eds) Silences and Images. The social history of the classroom, New York: Peter Lang
Lazarus-Black, M and McCall, P L (2006) 'The politics of place: practice, process, and kinship in domestic violence courts', Human Organization 65 (2) 140-155
Puwar, N (2010) 'The archi-texture of Parliament: flaneur as method in Westminster', Journal of Legislative Studies 16 (3) 298-312
Riles, A (2001) The Network Inside Out, Ann Arbor: U Michigan P; ch 2 'Sociality seen twice'
Yanow, D (1998) 'Space stories: studying museum buildings as organizational spaces while reflecting on interpretive methods and their narration', Journal of Management Inquiry 7 (3) 215-239

Global Instant Objects: Pneumatic Parliament http://www.g-i-o.com/pp1.htm
Luca Zanier: Corridors of Power: http://www.anzenbergergallery.com [go to: artists: luca zanier]
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
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Email: richard.freeman@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Edwin Cruden
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