Master
2025/2026
Vagrancy in the Perspective of Global History and Anthropology
ID 1102574
Type:
Elective course (Global and Regional History)
Delivered by:
Department of History
When:
1 year, 4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
12
Course Syllabus
Learning Objectives
- Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory and to provide a comprehensive overlook of key anthropological theories.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
- Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
- Able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis
Course Contents
- Vagrancy and modernity
- “A thorn in the side of states”
- Vagrancy across the social and political landscape of modern empires and nation states
- Legislation against vagrancy
- Social production of Vagrancy across the social and political landscape of modern empires and nation states
- Plebeian modernity: illegality, and the urban poor
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Gerasimov, I. (2018). Plebeian Modernity : Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1635990
- Scott, J. C. (2020). Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Polanyi, K. (2014). The Great Transformation : The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Vol. Unabridged). Boston, Mass: Beacon Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=715728