Short Course for M.A. level students of Social Anthropology, designed and taught by Hannah Wadle at the University of Vienna in April 2020.
Part I: Aspects of Longing: social critiques and theoretical propositions
Part II : Contested sites and performances of longing
Part III: Communities of longing and politics of longing
Part IV: The desiring subject: moral ambiguities and local performances
Selected course readings
Selected Literature on Longing
Ahearn, Laura (2003) Writing Desire in Nepalese Love Letters. Language & Communication,23:2, p. 107-122.
Berdahl, Daphne (1999) ‘(N)Ostalgie’ for the present: Memory, longing, and East German things, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 64:2, p. 192-211.
Berliner, David (2012) Multiple Nostalgias: the fabric of heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 18, p. 769-786.
Boym, Svetlana (2001) The Future of Nostalgia. Introduction, Ch. 4 & 5., New York: Basic Books.
Cardoso, M. V. E. (1983) The Ideology of Lusitanian Integralism. Saudade, Sebastianism, and Ideology in Portuguese Politics, 1914-1933, PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester. Ch. I Saudade, p. 25-141.
Chapin, Bambi L. (2014). Socializing Desire: Demanding Toddlers and Self-Restrained Children. In Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village: Shaping Hierarchy and Desire. Rutgers University Press, p. 42-68.
Christou, Prokopis A. (2020) Tourism experiences as the remedy to nostalgia: conceptualizing the nostalgia and tourism nexus, Current Issues in Tourism, 23:5, p. 612-625.
Dias, Cláudia Assunpção; Márcio Jarek; Vilmar Debona (2016) Brief observations on the notion of saudade: cultural symbol and paradox. Hermes. Journal of Communication Hermes, J. Comm. 8 , p. 7-18.
Jansen, Stef (2016) For a Relational, Historical Ethnography of Hope: Indeterminacy and Determination in the Bosnian and Herzegovinian Meantime. History and Anthropology, 27:4, 447-464.
Joseph, S. (2005). Learning Desire: Relational Pedagogies and the Desiring Female Subject in Lebanon. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 1(1), 79–109.
Lunaček, Sarah (2013) Tuareg travelling to Europe. Particularities and Continuities. Stud. ethnol. Croat., vol. 25, str. 159-182.
Marschall, Sabine (2016). The role of tourism in the production of cultural memory: The case of ‘Homesick Tourism’ in Poland. Memory Studies, 9(2), p. 187–202.
Morar, Nicolae and Majorie Gracieuse (2016) Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem. In Morar N., Nail T., & Smith D. (Eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault (pp. 232-246). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Piot, Charles and Kodjo Nicolas Batema (2019). The Fixer. Chronicles of the Visa Lottery. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Rosaldo, Renato (1986) Imperialist Nostalgia. Representations, No. 26, Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory (Spring, 1989), p. 107-122.
Scalco, Patricia D. (2016). The politics of chastity: marriageability and reproductive rights in Turkey. Social Anthropology, 24(3), 324–337.
Stoler, Ann Laura (1995) Race and the education of desire: Foucault’s History and the colonial order of things, Ch. IV, The Education of Desire and the Repressive Hypothesis. Durham: Duke University Press p. 165-195.
Teletin, Andreea; Veronica Manole (2015) Expressing cultural identity through saudade and dor: a Portuguese – Romanian comparative study. In: Maria Manuel Baptista: Identity. Concepts, Theories, History and Present Realities (a European overview) — Vol. I, Coimbra: Gracio Editor, p. 155-174.
Vromen, Suzanne (1993) The Ambiguity of Nostalgia. Yivo Annual Vol 21, p. 69-86.
Yurchak, Alexei (2005). Everything was forever, until it was no more: the last Soviet generation, Ch. 5: Imaginary West: the Elsewhere of Late Socialism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 158-206.