COML 6338 - Border Theory/Border Practice

(crosslisted) LSP 6338

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with COML 3338/LSP 3338.

A. Banerjee, D. Castillo.

As human migration around the world reaches a crisis unseen since WWII and as fences and walls once again dominate political rhetoric, how do we reckon with borders – not just as a metaphor but as a way of life? By examining how ideas and practices of borders interact and collide with their physical and embodied realities, this course approaches one of the most urgent questions of our time in a comparative, transnational framework. Starting with the U.S.-Mexico border and human flows across the Indian subcontinent, we will venture into numerous other zones to develop conceptual frameworks and critical vocabularies for borders in the twenty-first century.