Department of Tufts University Fall 2011 Professor Consuelo Cruz

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Political Culture in Comparative Perspective

This seminar studies the relationship between culture and power. The seminar begins by exploring different perspectives on culture, then moves on to examine the role of values, , group identity, public symbols, collective memory, and discourse in the contestation of power and the shaping of political structures. The focus of analysis and discussion is both theoretical and empirical. There is no particular regional emphasis. Instead, we will deal with a wide range of case studies drawn from various countries, both in historical and contemporary settings.

Course Requirements: Informed class participation is essential, and will count for a substantial portion of your grade (20%). A 10 minute class presentation (outlining the central points of the assigned readings for that session, or a reasoned outline of discussion topics for that session) will count for another 20%. The remaining 60 % will be determined by the quality of your final paper.

Reading Materials: All assigned readings will be available on Blackboard. ______

1. Introductory Session Overview and housekeeping.

2. Culture and Power: , History, Anthropology

Ann Swidler, “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies,” American Sociological Review, Volume 51 (April 1986), pp.273-286.

Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, and Sherry B. Ortner, “Introduction,” in their edited volume, Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 3-45.

3. Culture and Power: Political Science

William M. Reisinger, “The Renaissance of a Rubric: Political Culture as a Concept and Theory,” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 7:4, pp.328- 352.

David Laitin, “Political Culture and Political Preferences;” and “Response” to Laitin by Aaron Wildavsky, both articles in American Political Science Review (APSR), 82, pp.589-597.

Lisa Wedeen, “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science,” in APSR, 96:4 (December 2002), pp.713-728.

4. Culture, Conquest, State-Building

Patricia Seed, “Failing to Marvel: Atahualpa’s Encounter with the Word,” Latin American Research Review,” 26:1 (1991), pp.7-32.

Robert Schneider, “Swordplay and Statemaking: Aspects of the Campaign Against the Duel in Early Modern France,” in Charles Bright and Susan Harding, Eds., Statemaking and Social Movements, Essays in History and Theory (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1984), pp.265-295.

Roger Friedland, “The Institutional Logic of Religious Nationalism: Sex, Violence and the Ends of History,” in Politics, Religion, and Ideology, 12:1 (2011), pp.65-88.

5. Culture, Rebellion, Revolution

John Charles Chasteen, “Fighting Words: The Discourse of in Latin American History,” in Latin American Research Review, 28:3 (1993): 83-107.

Willian Sewell “ and Social Revolutions: Reflections on the French Case,” plus Skocpol’s “Rejoinder,” in , Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1997), pp. 169-209.

Rodney Baker, “Rebels and Vigilantes,” in Baker’s Legitimating Identities: The Self- Representation of Rulers and Subjects (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 89- 105.

6. Culture and Political Membership

Rogers M. Smith, Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.19-174.

Susan Bibler Coutin, “The oppressed, the Suspect, and the Citizen: Subjectivity in Competing Accounts of Political Violence,” American Bar Foundation 26:1 (Winter 2001), pp.63-94.

7. Memory, Learning, Politics

Paloma Aguilar, “Collective Memory of the Spanish Civil War: The Case of the Political Amnesty in the Spanish Transition to Democracy,” in , 4:4 (Winter 1997), pp.88-109.

Nancy Bermeo, "Democracy and the Lessons of Dictatorship", in Comparative Politics (April 1992), pp. 273-291.

Richard Ned Lebow, “The Future of Memory,” in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Special Edition, Volume 617 (May 2008), pp. 25-41.

8. Performance, Debate, Democracy

James Herrick, The History and Theory of Rhetoric (Boston: Allyn and Bacon), pp.1-27 (required); plus 32-88 and 92-140 (optional).

Leigh Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 1-171.

9. Cross-Cultural Politics

Bikhu Parekh, “The Cultural Particularity of ,” pp.156-175.

Francis Fukuyama, “The ?” (Summer 1989), pp.3-18

Samuel Huntington, “The ?” in The New Shape of World Politics (New York: Agenda, 1999), pp. 67-91.

Fouad Ajami, “The Summoning,” in Ibid., pp.92-100.

10. Cross-Cultural Politics (continued)

M. Hakan Yavuz, “Cleansing Islam from the Public Sphere,” Journal of International Affairs, 54:1 (Fall 2000), pp.21-42.

Heiner Bielefeldt, “Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate,” Human Rights Quarterly 17.4 (1995), pp. 587-617.

Michael Ignatieff, “The Attack on Human Rights,” Foreign Affairs (November/December 2001), pp.102-116.

11. Identity: Construction, Tolerance, Recognition

Srdja Pavlovic, “Literature, Social Poetics, and Identity Construction in Montenegro,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 17:1 (Fall 2003), pp. 131-165.

Karen Barkey, “Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 19:1-2 (December 2005), pp.5-19.

Sanjay Ruparelia, “How the Politics of Recognition Enabled India’s Democratic Exceptionalism,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 21 (November 2008), pp. 39-56.

12. Culture and World Politics

Marco Verweij, Andrew Oros, and Dominique Jacquin-Berdal, “Culture in World Politics: An Introduction,” in their edited volume, Culture in World Politics (New York: Saint Martin Press, 1998), pp.1-33.

Roland Bleaker, “Neorealist Claims in Light of Ancient Philosophy: The Cultural Dimension of International Theory,” in Ibid., pp.89-115.

Marc H. Ross, “The Cultural Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict,” in Ibid., pp.156-186.

Joseph Nye, Jr., “Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics,” in his Understanding International Conflict: An Introduction to Theory and History (Boston: Pearson Longman, 2005), pp.1-32.