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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
What would it mean to consider the state from the lens of sexuality How might we engage the nexus of state and sexuality in ways that help us scrutinize the state This course focuses on queer critiques of the state. The state serves as a site for the biopolitical regulation of subjects and populations. Sexuality, the reproduction of heteronormativity, is the node through which state power and biopolitical regulation proceeds. Bringing to bear strands of queer theory and critical scholarship on the state, this course reassesses how the state is imagined and how state reproduction of heteronormativity is conceptualized. Examples of immigration law, mobilization against "sodomy law," and state policies meantto discipline bodies, sexuality, and market exchanges, among others, will help engage questions of state power and its fractures.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
What forms of everyday and epical, epistemic and performative violences structure public and domestic spheres, statist and subaltern discourse, institutionalizing gendered, sexualized, heteronormative, religionationalist, raced, and classed dynamics This course will examine the contours of violence as mediated by historical continuities and discontinuities alive in the present. We will interrogate the governmentalization and normalization of violence, inquiring into the bloodlines and labyrinths, axioms and protocols that organize domination and resistance across the social, political, and legal body, in local and postlocal contexts.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Engaging subaltern, poststructuralist, feminist frameworks, this course examines culture and community in breakdown, assertion, dislocation. Through archaeological inquiry that excavates majoritarianism, nationalism, identity formation, and related dynamics, we explore the biopolitics of states. In prioritizing minority-subaltern claims in rethinking the historical present, we explore an ethics of response to suffering as it pertains to hybridized, hierarchically organized worlds brutalized by racism, class conflict, war, gender violence. As postcoloniality interrogates academy, how might we think about the effects and contradictions of our struggles, rather than reproduce ourselves as knowers How does the rewriting of history intervene toward the (im)possibility of justice
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Coursework that extends a student's field of inquiry beyond current CIIS courses. Requires a syllabus and contract signed by the student and faculty member, and approved by the program chair.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
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.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines issues of war and peace in the historical present as persistent crises of religion, nation, ecological destruction, gendered violence, and racism confront us at the turn of this century. Military interventions in the global South violate communities and nations, while democracy is rendered monochromatic in the United States. What legacies produce the fundamentalization of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism What are the effects on culture, power, class, and gender What enables the repeated violation of human rights in and between the global North and South What ethics and processes can further peace linked to justice
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
In response to chronic human rights failures in nation building in the 20th and 21st centuries, movements that enact ethical dissent are critical to the democratization of society. Addressing the culture, history, and politics of social justice movements globally, this course examines their legacy in response to political oppression and religious extremism. We explore resistance and alliance, attentive to issues that enable and constrain liberatory practice and brutalize resistance. We engage state-community relations and methodologies of dissent, drawing on the civil rights movement in the United States, Hindu nationalism in India, state and statelessness in Israel and Palestine, land struggles in Zimbabwe, and colonialism in Ireland.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines how women in predominantly Muslim societies of South Asia and the Middle East encounter Islamization, modernization, development, and democracy. How do Muslim women and Muslim-ness differ within a variety of temporalities and locations What are the meanings of citizenship How do the state, women's groups, Western donors, and militant Islam face off in the struggle for full citizenship rights for women What are the continuities and discontinuities between the colonial past and the postcolonial present This course explores how reformist women's movements are transformed under the pressures of economic globalization and neoliberal state policies, and the ways in which we can conceptualize the emergent links between local groups and transnational advocacy networks.
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3.00 Credits
Critical reflection on social relations has animated thought in its modern and postmodern expressions in thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and Spivak. Some name this move to thought oriented toward the historical present as a transition from philosophy to social theory. Others speak of the end of metaphysics or deconstruction or a critical ontology of ourselves. Critique finds life in "objects" like truth, history, subjectivity, capitalism, reason, consciousness, sexuality, Christianity,culture, power. Through the above, in conversation with feminist and postcolonial thought, we will interrogate intersections of reflection and action toward social justice.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines histories of postcoloniality in South Asia. Addressing competing nationalisms in Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and focusing on India and Pakistan, we will inquire into institutionalized and gendered violence in nation building in South Asia. We will explore the intersections of globalization and militarization, and constructions of sectarian, monolithic, and religious nationalisms. We will trace contested histories of state building via Hindu majoritarianism in India and military dictatorship in Pakistan. How do current formulations of state limit a resolution to conflict in Kashmir and escalate nuclear politics in South Asia What democratic forces intervene for justice and peace
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