The Master in Anthropology and Sociology of Development is a two-year programme designed for students interested in the comparative study of global issues from below, from the margins, and across borders. It explores development in a critical and forward-looking manner as pertaining to all regions in the world including the Global South.

Courses in the programme equip students with analytical and methodological tools in anthropology and sociology to explore four key themes:

• power and conflict
• space, population and mobility
• social movements and transformations
• culture and identity

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WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2011, 12h15-14h00

"ECONOMIES OF ABANDONMENT IN LATE LIBERALISM"

BROWN BAG SEMINAR WITH ELIZABETH POVINELLI

to discuss her new book on Economies of Abandonment :

Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2011)

Those wishing to attend can obtain pdf files of the book's Introduction and Chapter 4, that will serve as a basis for the discussion, from Julie Giabiconi at julie.giabiconi@graduateinstitute.ch

Venue : Room 342 at Voie Creuse 3rd Floor

Elizabeth Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York, and presently a Fellow at the Americian Academy in Berlin. A critical theorist of the politics of difference in late liberalism, she is the author, among others, of The Cunning of Recognition : Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (2002), and The Empire of Love : Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality (2006).