COML 6335 - [Borderworks]

(crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 6633, LATA 6640, LSP 6640, SPAN 6640)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014.

A. Banerjee, D. Castillo.

The seminar explores a new model of South-South comparison through a study of borders in Latin America and South Asia. Rather than the traditional vantage point of examining mobility, inclusion, and exclusion between West and East or North and South, we privilege theoretical insights and site-specific texts generated within the two regions and emerging out of their dialogue. Discussions will be organized around topics including indigeneity, gender, labor, and violence, and dates such as 1848, 1947, 1971, and 9/11 that decisively affected the concept and function of borders in Latin America and South Asia.