SHUM 4630 - Recognition, Abjection, and State Ideology

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Co-meets with ANTHR 7130/GOVT 6845/SHUM 6630.

K. Yamamoto-Hammering.

“Recognition, Abjection, Ideology” introduces seminal theorizations of modern state power with reference to ethnographic texts that focus both on the formation of national subjectivity and social exclusion. While the course examines relations between the economy and the effectiveness of state rhetoric, it also addresses how state ideologies today require the expulsion of certain groups from general society, and how these groups maintain their own socialities.

For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.