SHUM 4686 - Textures of Friendship: Ethics, Politics, Crossings

(crosslisted) ANTHR 4186, FGSS 4686
(ALC-AS, CA-AS)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with ANTHR 7186/FGSS 6686/SHUM 6686.

R. Yusupov.

We all have friends and value the company of others, but what does it mean to be in a friendship? Against the backdrop of our contemporary moment characterized by borders, oppression, and injustice, this course explores political imaginations and potentialities of friendship practices across borders (ethnic, religious, national, even species) as well as the forms of risks that they articulate. The disciplinary diversity of readings in this course aims at preparing students for completing a short-term ethnographic project on friendships on campus.