Interdisciplinary Seminar in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Readings

• Jeffrey W Knopf (2006). “Doing a Literature Review.” Political Science & Politics 39(1), 127–32.
• Valerie Sheppard (2020). Research Methods for the Social Sciences. BC Campus, Open-Access: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/jibcresearchmethods/ Chapters 1, 3 and 5.
• Clifford Geertz (1973), “Thick Description: Toward and Interpretative Theory of Culture,” The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: BasicBooks), 3-30.
• (for context on Geertz’s impact, see https://www.ias.edu/clifford-geertz-work-and-legacy) William Hagen (2005), ‘Moral Economy of Popular Violence’ in Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism
• Rogers Brubaker (2006) Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Princeton: Princeton UP), 1-17, 207- 238.
• Nicholas Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry Ortner (1994), “Introduction” Culture/Power/History, 1-8.
• Eric Hobsbawm (1983), “Introduction: Inventing Traditions” In The Invention of Tradition, ed.
• Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, 1-14.
• Ania Loomba (1998), Colonialism/ Postcolonialism, 1-12.
• Keith Jenkins (2003) Re-thinking History (London: Routledge), 6-32 Alessandro Portelli, “Living Voices: The Oral History Interview as Dialogue and Experience” Oral