Life and Death: Relations of Biopower and Necropower
SISP 320
Spring 2019 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
SOC 320 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Disability Studies, Health Studies |
This seminar is an advanced examination of how science and technology shape the politics of life and death. We will consider how science and technology have become handmaidens to human (and, in some cases, not human) life and death, impacting the social, legal, and ethical frameworks we use to define what constitutes the embodied, relational, and conceptual space between "alive" and "dead." Using theories of biopower and necropower as our guides, we will cover a diverse set of themes including sexual reproduction, birth, population, toxicity, decay, genocide, mortality, and the afterlife as they intersect with modern institutions of power. We will ask, How can we better understand the ways in which social institutions and actors deploy sciences and technologies to foster health or manufacture death? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SISP |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT) |
Major Readings:
Lisa Stevenson. LIFE BESIDE ITSELF: IMAGINING CARE IN THE CANADIAN ARTIC
Rob Nixon. SLOW VIOLENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENTALISM OF THE POOR
Timothy Pachirat. EVERY TWELVE SECONDS: INDUSTRIALIZED SLAUGHTER AND THE POLITICS OF SIGHT
Lisa Marie Cacho. SOCIAL DEATH: RACIALIZED RIGHTLESSNESS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE UNPROTECTED
João Biehl. VITA: LIFE IN A ZONE OF SOCIAL ABANDONMENT
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Examinations and Assignments:
Discussion questions, media project, reading notes project, and a final research paper |
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