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3.00 Credits
This course examines central works of these two thinkers, as well as their uses in 20th-century social thought. Particular attention is given to the critical, emancipatory, and problematic dimensions of their work. Through readings that locate their thought in philosophical and political contexts, we will explore their impact in historical contexts, and in relation to the present. How are these thinkers relevant to understanding modernity/postmodernity What social movements and interventions draw on their thinking What shifts and reconfigurations did/does their work make possible, and how has their work been transformed through relations with critical theory, feminisms, postmodernisms, and postcoloniality
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3.00 Credits
The European Enlightenment and Jewish Haskala were movements for rational critique of religion and orthodoxy in cultural tradition. The Enlightenment responded to prolific oppression in European history linked to the imbrication of Christianity and political states. The Haskala sought to rethink Jewish tradition in the context of secularization in Christianized Europe. Radical social thought disproportionately emerged from Jewish thinkers. What discontinuities and continuities exist between secular Jewish thought and the cultural history of the Jews How is a people's spiritual legacy renegotiated and transformed through an affirmative and critical relation to the Enlightenment project to organize social relations according to reason and freedom How are the boundaries between the secular and religious, tradition and modernity, spirituality and politics, challenged by emancipatory Jewish thought These are some of the questions we will explore through close reading of texts by Marx, Freud, Kafka, Arendt, Benjamin, Derrida, and others.
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3.00 Credits
This course excavates practices and discourses of self and sexuality through cross-cultural and historical inquiry. How do inherited legacies of Christianity and human science inform contemporary relations to the body, pleasure, identity, and community in the Western world How are these forces resisted or reproduced in liberation movements organized around gender and sexuality How are experiences and understandings of subjectivity and sexuality mediated by nation, history, language, race, class, gender, and power What can we learn from an examination of cultural differences regarding these issues among indigenous peoples in New Guinea and North America, or through an analysis of diverse movements and issues in global contexts
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3.00 Credits
What is development What have been the cultural, ecological, and political impacts of development What are the intersections between colonization, development, modernization, and globalization How can we engender development This course engages a discursive analysis of development, its deconstruction, and reframing within postcolonial and feminist contexts. What are the distinctions between development processes in the global South and the North as mediated by power, class, gender, race, culture, nation, and rural/urban issues Drawing on post-1950 experiences from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this course examines the historical and contemporary challenges toward prioritizing concerns of marginalized communities, especially women, in development processes.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
The works of Karl Marx and Michel Foucault circulate throughout contemporary critical discourses concerned with libratory practice, informing ethical dissent. Both thinkers excavate the present through historical analysis attentive to dynamics of power, utilizing thought to expand space for critical reflection and social resistance. How might we use their thought to think the present in ways that facilitate creative intervention for justice that sustains diverse worlds and interrupts the normalization and violence of dominance How might close readings of their works, and contemporary scholarship in conversation with their thought, enable new relations to questions of race, gender, class, power, sexuality, heteronormativity, colonialism/"post"coloniality, culture, and social change How might this enable a (re)thinking of justice, of selfdetermination,of legacy
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Engaging the imagination that coerced the sacred and the profane within 20th-century revolutions, and proliferated new cultural, political, economic, and ecological dynamics across the globe, we will examine the relations of power, domination, and resistance as they storied histories of hope and despair, brutality and compassion. This course explores 20th-century revolutions, examining the legacies of colonialism and postcolonial subordination, fascism, and genocide; state and statelessness; communist, socialist, and ethnic movements; and indigenous liberation struggles. Through such engagement, how might we question our historical inheritances How might we reconvene commitments within diverse worlds to rethink the historical present
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Postcolonialism struggles with the death of memory where its promises to the poor are least honored. Their actions for self-determination are policed to benefit the advantaged. The political commitments of the privileged to the marginalized are defiled in once-colonized regions. Engaging the legacies of internal and external colonization, how do we understand the crimes and contradictions of European imperialism since the 15th century How do we bear witness to the histories of colonization How do we connect to legacies of resistance and complicity to colonization, and to the imagination of freedom, to intervene effectively in the present
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3.00 Credits
Directed Seminar in Research
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The advanced student's researching and writing of a thesis or dissertation progresses with the mentorship of, and in close consultation with, one's Thesis or Dissertation Chair and Committee.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Who has the right to life Whose life matters At the intersections of modernization and militarization intrinsic to nation building in the 21st century, the cultural survival of indigenous communities is endangered, as nations perceive traditional subsistence cultures as inadequately productive and socially anachronistic. Indigenous and local struggles for cultural survival raise critical issues for the ecological sustainability of our planet. They point to languages, values, ways of being, spiritualities, imagination, and memory precious to sustaining our world. In this course, we will examine the scope of governmental control; international treaties, covenants, and processes; and the role of progress as it perpetrates the genocide, both physical and cultural, of indigenous peoples.
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