Anthropology and Political Participation

Eckert, Julia M. (2022). Anthropology and Political Participation. In: Giugni, Marco; Grasso, Maria (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. Oxford Handbooks (pp. 101-115). Oxford University Press 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198861126.013.6

[img] Text
Political_Participation.pdf - Published Version
Restricted to registered users only
Available under License Publisher holds Copyright.

Download (1MB) | Request a copy

From an anthropological perspective, political participation can be defined as all action that attempts to have part in deciding upon one’s collective circumstances. It encompasses all practices that engage with the order of things to impact on it, also those not usually identified with participation in a political system. Anthropologists consider historically changing ways of how membership in polities is formed and study diverse imaginations of political community that are articulated in practices of political participation, not only those of the nation state or its parts, nor only small-scale local ones, but addressing at times the political order of world society. Political participation for anthropologists is thus defined not by its method or its addressee; nor is it restricted to formal citizenship; rather, it is all action in respect to power, which lays claim to the promise of self-determination, and the power to define that very “self”.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology

UniBE Contributor:

Eckert, Julia

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

Series:

Oxford Handbooks

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anja Julienne Wohlgemuth

Date Deposited:

16 Sep 2022 11:47

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:24

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198861126.013.6

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/172832

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/172832

Actions (login required)

Edit item Edit item
Provide Feedback