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CHUM330
Knowledge and the Making of Difference
CHUM330 FA
Crosslistings: HIST350
Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:01:13 EDT 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 17 0 17
This seminar will explore the ways in which the formation of
knowledge in "modern" societies has relied upon, reproduced
and naturalized social differences and inequalities such as
gender, race, sexuality, nationality, religion, and class.
We will proceed from the insights of Michel Foucault and a
range of feminist and postcolonial critics to analyze the
strategies, processes and collaborations of the scientific
disciplines (biology, anthropology and sociology); the
professions (medicine, public health, psychiatry,
criminology, and social work); and the state (law and
administration) in making and fixing difference. We will
draw on historical case studies of knowledge formation and
their ramifications in imperial North America and Europe as
well as colonial contexts in Africa, South America, South
and Southeast Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
MAJOR READINGS
Michel Foucault, DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH:
BIRTH OF THE PRISON
-- --- -- HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, VOL 1
Ann Stoler, RACE AND THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE (Duke, 1995)
Gail Bederman, MANLINESS AND CIVILIZATION: A CULTURAL
HISTORY OF GENDER AND RACE IN THE U.S. 1880-1917 (Chicago,
1995)
David Arnold, COLONIZING THE BODY: STATE MEDICINE AND
EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIA (California,
1993)
Fatimah Tobing Rony, THE THIRD EYE: RACE, CINEMA AND
ETHNOGRAPHIC SPECTACLE (Duke, 1996)
George Chauncey, GAY NEW YORK (Basic, 1994)
David Sibley, GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: SOCIETY AND
DIFFERENCE IN THE WEST (ROUTLEDGE, 1995)
And selected articles by Lisa Lowe, Elizabeth Grosz,
Nicholas Dirks, Warwick Anderson, Vijay Prashad, Kay
Anderson, Rachel Tolen, John Tagg, Lisa Duggan, David Horn,
Mary Poovey, Donna Haraway, Regina Kunziel, Lauren Berlant,
Nicholas Rose, Donna Guy, Jorge Salessi, Cindy Patton,
Simon Watney, Richard Fung, Tony Bennett, and John Kuo
Wei Tchen.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One long paper, and one short
paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless
preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first
class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE:
Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Johnson, W
- Times: .T..... 1:10PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 0, Fr: 0
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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