Ted Hopf
Professor of Political Science
Office: 2176 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(o): (614) 292-3392
(f): (614) 292-1146
email: hopf.2@osu.edu
Identity Politics (PS 737)
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Spring 2004 Political
Science 737
Ted Hopf
2176 Derby
292-3392
hopf.2@osu.edu
Class Hours: 330-615p Tuesdays
Office Hours: 130-330p, Thursdays
Course
Overview
This is a course that explores the
origins, reproduction, and effects of social identity from a variety of
perspectives. The sources of identity that are investigated include the self,
group, society, and state, as well as their more complicated combinations. The
identities whose origins, maintenance, and effects we study are nation,
ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and race. The approaches we take to
make sense of identity politics include writings in political science, social
psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural and post-colonial
studies. This course is designed as a “tasting menu,” not a comprehensive
effort to advance a single point of view. It is hoped that exposure to a wide
variety of literatures will inspire greater interest in some, and reasoned
distance from others.
Much of this material will be
unfamiliar to you; this is good. Some of the material will be very hard to
understand; this is still better. Since the purpose of this course is to expose
students to theories of identity from a variety of perspectives, it is both
expected and welcome that we feel somewhat lost and stumped by these new
challenges. This class is designed to work through these difficulties
collectively, in class and without.
Course Expectations
Class participation will constitute 25%
of your grade. Half of that will be based upon your in-class presentations of
readings. Those presentations will be graded according to
1.
how clearly and concisely you present the authors'
arguments, methodologies, and evidence
2.
how effectively you highlight the strengths and weaknesses
of the foregoing
3.
how well you are able to situate the author with respect to
other readings in the class
4.
how imaginatively you are able to link the author's work to issues
beyond the immediate subject of concern.
5.
and, perhaps most important, how well you make value out of what you
read, both for yourself, and for the class more generally.
Each
class presentation will be accompanied by a 1-2 page typed handout to be
emailed to all class members by 9am the day of the class. It should address
Points 1-4 above.
The second half of the participation
grade concerns your active participation in class in general. This consists of
responding to the presentations of others by offering your own suggestions with
respect to 1-4 above.
Twenty-five percent of the final grade
will consist of 3-4 5 page essays. These can be based on your presentation or
on topic we mutually agree to. These will be due on April 13, May 4, May 18, and June 1.
Fifty percent of the final grade is the
final paper of no more than 25 pages. There are at lesat two broad options for
this paper.
Option One: Choose one of the
substantive identities: nation, sexuality, gender, or race and at least two of
the origins: self, group, society, and/or state and society, and critically
evaluate how the identity you have chosen is reproduced by the mechanisms you
have chosen.
Option Two: Choose two of the
substantive identities, one of the origins, and evaluate how the identities are
different and similar with respect to the reproductive mechanism chosen.
Option Three: Negotiate a topic with
me.
Final
Paper Due 8 June
Course Readings
You should purchase the following books
online at your favorite web-vendor, or anywhere else you choose.
John Gillis, ed. Commemorations. The Politics of National Identity (Princeton 1994)
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
(Doubleday 1966)
Allison Weir, Sacrificial Logics. Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity
(Routledge 1996)
Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, Women Don’t Ask. Negotiation and the Gender
Divide, (Princeton 2003)
David D. Laitin, Hegemony and Culture (Chicago 1986)
David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation (Cornell 1998)
All readings not taken from the above
books can be xeroxed from a master set in the Reading Room, 2174 Derby,
8am-6pm, M-F
I. Origins of Identity
Week One, 30 March
Overview
Week Two, 6 April
Introduction
Iver B. Neumann, Uses of the Other (Minnesota 1999), pp. 1-15, 207-16
Ger Duijzings, Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo (Columbia 2000),
pp. 1-36
Selves
Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity, (Stanford, 1991), Ch 2, “The Self:
Ontological Security and Existential Anxiety,” 35-63
Madan Sarup, Identity, Culture and the
Postmodern World, pp. xiii-66
Recommended
Ted Hopf, Social Construction of International Politics, (Cornell 2002), pp.
1-23
Peter L. Callero, “Toward a Meadian
Conceptualization of Role,” The
Sociological Quarterly 27:3, 343-58??
Roy F. Baumeister, “The Self,” in Handbook of Social Psychology, 4th
Edition, (Random House, 1998), pp. 680-740
Joel M. Charon, Symbolic Interactionism, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1998), 72-97, 110-25,
Sheldon Stryker and Anne Stratham,
“Symbolic Interaction and Role Theory,” in Gardner Lindzey and Elliot Aronson,
eds. Handbook of Social Psychology, 3rd
Edition, Vol. 1 (Random House 1985), 311-78
Sheldon Stryker, “Symbolic
Interactionism: Themes and Variations,” in Morris Rosenberg and Ralph H.
Turner, eds. Social Psychology.
Sociological Perspectives (Basic 1981), 3-29
H.D. Forbes, Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Personality (Chicago 1985), 19-64
Paul R. Brass, “Elite Groups, Symbol
Manipulation and Ethnic Identity Among the Muslims of South Asia,” in David
Taylor and Malcolm Yapp, eds. Political
Identity in South Asia, London 1979, pp. 35-77
Ivana Markova, “Knowledge of the Self
through Interaction,” in Krysia Yardley and Terry Honess, eds. Self and Identity: Psychosocial Perspectives
(Wiley 1987), 65-80
Norman K. Denzin, “A Phenomenology of
the Emotionally Divided Self,” in Yardley and Honess, Self and Identity, 287-96
Week Three, 13 April
Groups
Marilynn B. Brewer and Rupert J. Brown,
“Intergroup Relations,” in Handbook of
Social
Psychology, 4th
Edition, pp. 554-94
or
Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns, “Social
Psychology and Intergroup Conflict,” in Daniel
Chirot and Martin E.P. Seligman, eds. Ethnopolitical Warfare, pp. 319-42
Alan Page Fiske, Kitayama, Markus, and
Richard E. Nisbett, “The Cultural Matrix of
Social Psychology,” in Handbook of Social Psychology, 4th
Edition, 915-81
Recommended
Michael Herzfeld, “The European Self:
Rethinking an Attitude,” in Anthony Pagden, ed. The Idea of Europe (Cambridge 2002), 139-70
R.S. Perinbanayagam, Signifying Acts. Structure and Meaning in
Everyday Life, Southern
Illinois, 1985, “The Significance of
the Other,” 135-58, 167
Iurii M. Lotman and Boris A. Uspenskii,
“Binary Models in the Dynamics of Russian
Culture to the End of the Eighteenth
Century),” in Alexander D. and Alice Stone Nakhimovsky, eds. The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History
(Cornell 1985), pp. 30-66
Hazel Rose Marcus and Shinobu Katayama,
“Culture and the self: Implications for
cognition and emotion,” Psychological Review 98:2, 1991: 224-53
Richard W. Shweder and Edmund J.
Bourned, “Does the concept of the person vary
cross-culturally?” in Shweder and
Robert A. LeVine, eds. Culture theory.,
Cambridge1984, 158-99
Week Four, 20 April
Societies
Berger and Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, ALL
Eviatar Zerubavel, Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past, pp.
11-36
Recommended
Karl W. Deutsch, Nationalism and Social Communication. An Inquiry into the Foundations
of Nationality MIT 1953, pp.
60-80
Charon, Symbolic Interactionism, 151-90
David L. Morgan and Michael L.
Schwalbe, “Mind and Self in Society: Linking Social
Structure and Social Cognition,” Social Psychology Quarterly 53:2 (1990),
148-64
Bronwyn Davies and Rom Harre,
“Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves,”
Journal for
the Theory of Social Behavior 20:1 (1991), 43-63
Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, Stanford 1990, pp. 1-15, 52-65
Margaret R. Somers and Gloria D.
Gibson, “Reclaiming the Epistemological ‘Other’”
Narrative and the Social Constitution
of Identity,” in Craig Calhoun, ed. Social
Theory and the Politics of Identity Blackwell 1994, pp. 37-99
Michael A. Hogg, Deborah J. Terry, and
Katherine M. White, “A Tale of Two Theories: A
Critical Comparison of Identity Theory
with Social Identity Theory,” Social
Psychology Quarterly 58:4, (1995), 255-69
Margaret R. Somers, “The narrative
constitution of identity: A relational and network
approach,” Theory and Society 23 (1994), 605-49
Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process New York: Urizen Books, pp. 143-52
Week
Five, 27 April
States and Societies
Gillis, Commemorations, pp. 74-149, chapters by Bodnar, Davis, Zerubavel,
and Savage
Rita Smith Kipp, Dissociated Identities, Michigan 1993, pp. 67-84, 105-23
Annie E. Coombes, Reinventing Africa, pp. 187-213
Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees Berkeley
1989, pp. 103-32
Jamey Gambrell, “The Wonder of the
Soviet World,” December 22, 1994 New York
Review of
Books,
pp 30-35
Riva Kastoryano, Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany,
pp. 38-63
Recommended
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism reframed (Cambridge 1996)
Andrew Vincent, Theories of the State, Basil Blackwell 1987, 1-44
Paul Brass, Ethnic Groups and the State Barnes and Noble 1985, pp. 1-56
Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood, Harvard 1992
Cristina Rojas de Ferro, “Identity
Formation, Violence, and the Nation-State in
Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Alternatives 20 (1995), pp. 195-224
II.
Varieties of
Identity
Week
Six, 4 May
Nations and Ethnicities
Ernst Renan, “What is a Nation?,” in
Eley and Suny, 42-55
Alexander J. Motyl, “Inventing
Invention: The Limits of National Identity Foundation,” in
Ron Suny and Michael Kennedy, eds. Intellectuals and the Articulation of the
Nation (Michigan 1999), 57-78
Prasenjit Duara, “Historicizing
National Identity, or Who Imagines What and When,” in
Eley and Suny, 151-77
Ronald Suny, “Why We Hate You: The
Passions of National Identity and Ethnic Violence” January 2004 ms.
Michael Herzfeld, Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern
Greece, Texas 1982,
pp. 3-23
Jacqueline Stevens, Reproducing the State (Princeton 1999),
Chapter Two, “The Nation
and theTragedy of Birth,” 102-48
Ger Duijzings, “The Kosovo Epic: Religion
and Nationalism among the Serbs,” in Religion
and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo (Columbia 2000), pp. 176-202
Recommended
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (Verso 1991)
Linda McDowell, Gender, Identity and Place. Understanding Feminist Geographies
(Minnesota 1999), 170-202
Gregory Jusdanis, The Necessary Nation (Princeton 2001)
Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny,
“Introduction: From the Moment of Social History to the Work of Cultural Representation,”
in Eley and Suny, Becoming National,
(Oxford 1996), 3-37
Etienne Balibar, “The Nation Form:
History and Ideology,” in Eley and Suny, Becoming National, pp. 132-50
Julie Skurski, “The Ambiguities of
Authenticity in Latin America: Dona Barbara and the Construction of National Identity,” in
Eley and Suny, Becoming National, pp.
371-402
Ali Z. Mazrui, Cultural Engineering and Nation-Building in East Africa,
Northwestern 1972, pp 3-37
Anthony P. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations, Blackwell 1987, pp. 129-52
Guntram H. Herb, “National Identity and
Territory,” in Herb and David H. Kaplan, eds.
Nested
Identities. Nationalism, Territory, and Scale, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999,
9-30
Erica L. Benner, “Marx and Engels on Nationalism and National Identity: A Reappraisal,” Millennium 17:1 (1988), 1-2
Liisa Malkki, “National Geographic: The
Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and
Refugees,” in Eley and Suny, 432-53
Iver Neumann, Uses of the Other, Chs 6 and 7, Russia and Bashkortostan, 161-206
Yuri Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal
Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted
Ethnic Particularism,” in Eley and
Suny, Becoming National, pp. 203-38
Nadav Safran, Egypt in Search of Political Community Harvard 1961, pp 101-21
Geoff Eley, “Some Thoughts on the
Nationalist Pressure Groups in Imperial Germany,” in Paul Kennedy and Anthony Nicholls, eds.
Nationalist and Racialist Movements in
Britain and Germany Before 1914 Macmillan 1981, pp. 40-67
William A. Wilson, “The Kalevala and
Finnish Politics,” in Felix J. Oinas, ed. Folklore,
Nationalism,
and Politics Slavica 1978, pp. 51-75
Week Seven, 11 May
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: An
Epistemological and Methodological Intermezzo
David D. Laitin, Hegemony and Culture, pp TBA
David D. Laitin, Identities in Formation, pp TBA
James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin,
“Explaining Interethnic Cooperation,” APSR
90:4 (December 1996), 715-35
James Fearon and David Laitin,
“Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity,” IO 54:4 (Autumn 2000), 845-77
Weeks Eight and Nine, 18-25 May
Genders and Sexualities
A.
Joan Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category
of Historical Analysis,” American
Historical
Review 91:5 December
1986, pp 1053-75
Allison Weir, Sacrificial Logics. Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity
Routledge
1996, pp. 1-64, 112-28, 145-90
B.
Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, Women Don’t Ask. Negotiation and the Gender
Divide, (Princeton 2003) ALL
Stephanie A. Shields, “The Education of
the Emotions,” and “Ideal Emotion and the Fallacy of the Inexpressive Male,” in
Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the
Social Meaning of Emotion, pp. 89-138
Jane K. Cowan, “Going out for Coffee?
Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures
in Everyday Sociability,” in Peter
Loizos and Evthymios Paptaxiarchis, eds. Contested
Identities. Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece (Princeton 1991), 180-202
Jonathan Michel Metzl, “The Gendered
Psychodynamics of Pharmaceutical Advertising,” in Prozac on the Couch (Duke 2003), pp. 127-164
C.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western
Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses,” Feminist Review 30, autumn 1988, pp. 65-88
Richard A. Shweder, “’What about Female
Genital Mutilation?’ and Why Understanding Culture Matters,” in Why do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural
Psychology (Harvard 2003), pp. 168-216
D.
Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir, pp. 56-63, 78-85, 132-4, 160-7, 181-4
Didi Herman, “Representing Homsexuality
and its Agenda,” and “No Lesbians, Gay Lesbians, Feminist Lesbians,” in The Antigay Agenda: Orhodox Vision and the
Christian Right, pp. 60-110
Recommended
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge
1990), vii-78
Nilufer Gole, “The Gendered Nature of
the Public Sphere,” Public Culture
10:1 (Fall
1997), 61-82
Barbara Smuts, “The Evolutionary
Origins of Patriarchy,” Human Nature
6:1, 1995, pp 1-
32
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Women Workers
and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of
Domination, Common Interests, and the
Politics of Solidarity,” in M. Jacqui Alexander and Mohanty, eds. Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies,
Democratic Futures (Routledge 1997), pp. 3-29
Ruth Levitas, “We: problems in
identity, solidarity and difference,” History
of the Human
Sciences 8:3 (1995),
89-105
Deniz Kandiyoti, “Identity and its Discontents:
Women and the Nation,” Millenium 20:3
1991, pp 429-43
Patricia Gurin and Aloen Townsend,
“Properties of gender identity and their implications
for gender consciousness,” British Journal of Social Psychology 25
(1986), 139-48
David M. Buss and Douglas T. Kenrick,
“Evolutionary Social Psychology,” in Handbook
of
Social
Psychology,
4th Edition, 1998, 982-1026
Nancy Fraser and Linda J. Nicholson,
“Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter
beteen Feminism and Postmodernism,” in
Nicholson, ed. Feminism/Postmodernism
(Routledge 1990), pp. 19-38
Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and DIsorder in Early Modern Seville
Princeton 1990, pp
118-52
Week Ten, 1 June
Races
A.
Bell Hooks, “Representing Whiteness in
the Black Imagination,” in eds. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A.
Treichler, Cultural Studies, pp.
338-46
Todd Boyd, “Dead Man Walkin’: Tupac’s
Journey into the Heart of Darkenss,” “Young, Black, and Don’t Give a Fuck:
Experiencing the Cinema of Nihilism,” and “True to the Game: Basketball as the
Embodiment of Blackness in Contemporary Popular Culture,” in Am I Black Enough for You?, pp. 82-127
John L. Jackson, Jr.,”Class(ed) Acts,
or Class Is as Class Does,” in HarlemWorld:
Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America, pp. 123-58
B.
Alaina Lemon, Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from
Pushkin to
Postsocialism (Duke 2000), Ch 2, “Roma, Race, and Post-Soviet Markets,”
56-79
Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe, (Stanford, 1994), Ch 8, “Peopling Eastern
Europe,
The Evidence of Manners and the
Measurements of Race,” 332-55
C.
Annalee Newitz, “White Savagery and
Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the
Media,” in Matt Wray and Annalee
Newitz, eds. White Trash. Race and Class
in America (Routledge 1997), 131-54
Allison Graham, Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil
Rights Struggle, “Introduction: Remapping Dogpatch,” “’The Purest of God’s
Creatures:’ Whit Women, Blood Pollution, and Southern Sexuality,” and “Civil
Rights Films and the New Red Menace: The Legacy of the 1960s,” pp. 1-53, 147-94
Recommended
Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind. Media and
Race in America (Chicago 2000)
Jacqueline Stevens, Reproducing
the State (Princeton, 1999)
Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation (Cambridge, 1998)
