This course examines the experience of violence and suffering from a cross-cultural perspective.
We will examine the political and social
"creativity" of violence from the
perspective of anthropology's encounter with
the details of everyday life.
How can we understand violence as a phenomenon
that animiates (rather than opposes) the cultural
and social production of the everyday, of law,
and our identity as citizens of the nation-state
in a globalized world? We will rely on ethnographies
and theories, as well as more experimental forms of expression (film, autobiography, testimonial).
Topics include: refugees and statelessness, genocide, collective violence, terror, mourning and grief,
humanitarianism, political violence,
the body, and idea of living under a state of emergency. |
