lecture, intro anthropology, "the state and its discontents"
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THE STATE AND ITSDISCONTENTS TA Jacob O. Gold ([email protected])
ANTH100: The Human AdventureProfessor Smith
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PART 1: HYPOTHESIS: PERIODS OF CRISIS AND COLLAPSEREVEAL HOW STATES FUNCTION AND WHY WE LIVE IN THEM.
VS.
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SUBMITTING TO THE STATE: A VERY EXPENSIVE SOCIAL CONTRACT
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651CE)Code of Hammurabi (ca.1750BCE)
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SOME SOURCES OF STRESS:
• Climate Change, Natural Disasters• Population Pressure• Economic Disruption• Inequality• External Aggression• Systemic Violence• NEW IDEAS
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CASE 1: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1799) AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION (1791-1804)
FRANCE CROP FAILURES ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS FISCAL CRISIS CLASS CONFLICT CONTINENTALRIVALRIES
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HAITI
• SUGAR PLANTATION SLAVERY • CLASS CONFLICT • REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FROM FRANCE
Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806)
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CASE 2: COLLAPSE OF ANGKOR (CA. 800-1500CE)• MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD ENDS(CLIMATE INSTABILITY, DROUGHTS, FLOODS)• HYDRAULIC SYSTEM CAN’T COPE • SIAMESE INVASION • RELIGIOUS CHANGE • ROYAL OVERREACH?
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PART ONE CONCLUSIONS• STATE CRISIS CAN LEAD TO REFORM, REVOLUTION,
COLLAPSE, NEW STATES…
• STATE-LEVEL CHANGE INVOLVES MULTIPLE FACTORS REINFORCING EACH OTHER
• “STATES” COME AND GO, BUT THE STATE STICKS AROUND…
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PART 2: RESISTING STATE* POWER
* OR NON-STATE ACTORS LIKE CORPORATIONS THAT MAY ALSO HAVE STATE CONNECTIONS
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WEAPONS OF THE WEAK: EVERYDAY FORMS OF PEASANT RESISTANCEJAMES C. SCOTT (1985)‘Most of the political life of subordinate groups is to be found neither in the overt collective defiance [against] powerholders nor in complete hegemonic* compliance, but in the vast territory between these two polar opposites’
* Hegemony: from Greek ἡγεμονία hēgemonía, "leadership, rule”. The established political, social, and military dominance of one class or group over others. (Intra-state or Inter-state)
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Public transcript: open public interaction between superordinates and subordinates
Hidden transcript: critique of power that goes on offstage, where the power-holders can’t see it
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NON-VIOLENCE IS NOT “PASSIVE”
• Marches
• Sit-Ins
• Boycotts
• Protests
• Organizing
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND 21ST CENTURY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
SOME PROS: Platform for organizing; Harder for state authority to disrupt.
SOME CONS: “Substitute or Substance?”, “Noise” …
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WHAT DO YOU WANT, HOW WILL YOU GET IT?
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP OTHERS?