Absences, Archives, and Adjudicating Criminalities in Settler Colonial States
CHUM 346
Fall 2025
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 347 |
Absence can refer to either distance or nonexistence. Archival inquiry embodies the former and can yield the latter. Both positions pose ethical, interpretive, and political problems. In this course, we will critically approach the archive to ask questions about how its evidentiary forms are used to narrate social relations of power, territorial claims, criminality, and adjudicate past wrongs. What genres of proof do archives produce and naturalize, and how do historical claims corroborate, refuse, or reinterpret "truth" and "knowing"? Readings span Native and Indigenous Studies, American Studies, History, Anthropology, and Postcolonial and Literary Studies, exploring how these approaches address the adjudication of individual and state crimes. The course focuses on settler colonialism and Indigenous politics in North America but engages other global examples. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (American Studies) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Mahmood Mamdani, NEITHER SETTLER NOR NATIVE: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF PERMANENT MINORITIES
Ann Laura Stoler, AGAINST THE ARCHIVAL GRAIN AND COLONIAL COMMON SENSE
Mark Rifkin, BEYOND SETTLER TIME: TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTY AND INDIGENOUS SELF-DETERMINATION
Louise Erdrich, THE ROUND HOUSE
Benjamin Madley, AN AMERICAN GENOCIDE: THE UNITED STATES AND THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN CATASTROPHE
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Examinations and Assignments:
participation; in-class free-writes and reflections; final research paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Woodsum,Antonina Griecci Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
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