DSOC 7250 - [Theories of State, States of Theory]

(SBA)

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Next offered 2015-2016.

S. Feldman.

Examines how processes of political, economic, and social restructuring reshape state capacities and processes of state formation. The animating question: How have transnational corporatist alliances, social movements, and new hegemonic relations altered how we understand the meanings, activities, and power of rule? Critical to these discussions are the contours of nationalisms and fundamentalisms as these emerge and reconfigure national, regional, and global alliances and practices, as well as shape interpretations of current processes of resistance, change, and forms of intervention. The course engages historical, poststructural, postcolonial, and comparative theories particularly as these have emerged and been refined by current debates.