Call Number | 00099 |
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Day & Time Location |
T 2:10pm-4:00pm 214 Milbank Hall (Barnard) |
Points | 4 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Elizabeth M Green |
Type | SEMINAR |
Course Description | This course centers disability in its many manifestations and meanings – as an embodied, social, and cultural experience, as an organizing discourse in local and global contexts, as an analytic framework, and as a position from which to approach, think about, and engage in the world. Together, we will seek to understand disability in diverse settings and contexts through ethnographic texts, autobiography, documentary film, and essays, drawing primarily from works in anthropology but also more broadly from the interdisciplinary traditions known as (Critical) Disability Studies. Throughout the semester, we will move between considering disability in more and less specific and categorical terms. We will ask what the stakes are – intellectually, socially, politically - for different ways of doing, thinking, and representing disability. What becomes apparent when we consider, say, the experiences of deaf young adults in India working together to learn Indian Sign Language, or physically disabled adults in the United States whose disabilities must be situated within histories of racialized poverty and urban neglect? What happens – what are the resonances and the tensions – when we put these settings into conversation? Through our engagements with materials analyzing these and many other instances, we will think together about what it means to study and think with disability from different disciplinary perspectives, different methods, and different media. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Anthropology @Barnard |
Enrollment | 14 students (14 max) as of 5:07PM Friday, December 13, 2024 |
Status | Full |
Subject | Anthropology |
Number | UN3091 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Barnard College |
Note | """Instructor Approval Required""-(Please register for the w |
Section key | 20243ANTH3091W001 |