ANTH 8800 - Biopolitics:Culture and State

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Biopolitical states organize individuals and populations as resources. Knowledge is produced and circulated to facilitate productivity, health, normality, disciplined forms of happiness, and docility. Social expertise is mobilized to enhance nation building and economic expansion. Discourses of eugenics in Nazi Germany, national security in post-9/11 United States, and history as myth in contemporary India domesticate difference, asphyxiate and assimilate dissent. Examining the political and cultural impact of national security laws, such as the Patriot Act (United States), the Prevention of Terrorism Act (India), and Article 23 (Hong Kong), as mediated by race/ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexuality, and gender, we will examine the biopolitical as it operates through the twin mechanisms of cultural dominance and the state, its governmentalities productive of myriad forms of resistance.

Credits:

2.00 - 3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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