ANTH 7512 - Nation/Nationalisms:Gendered Encounters

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

This course examines the inescapably gendered ideologies and discursive practices of nationhoods and mediates the inadequacies between global capital and national particularisms. It focuses on gendered and subaltern encounters with "nation," delineated by class, ethnicity,caste, religion, sexuality, and region. How is the "local" imbricated with the "global" as it operates through the construction, reification, amanipulation of gendered identities How does the gendering of violence shift the spaces in which cultural citizenship is shaped How does violence as political action reshape social structures In tracing subaltern agency and resistance, and the literal and figurative mechanisms that link states to everyday and episodic violence, this course examines histories of the postcolonial present-their cartography in wars, nationalisms, militarisms, "fundamentalisms," ethnic violence, right-wing movements-in conditions named "peace

Credits:

2.00 - 3.00

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Instructional Type:

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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