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CS92PROD
The Politics of Death: The Living, the Dead, and the State

HIST 318
Fall 2020
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: ENVS 318, REES 318
Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate

This course will explore the intersections between the living, the dead, and the state, focusing on the ways that death and the dead body raise particular questions and problems for different kinds of political regimes. The course will examine the collisions between the state and the dead, both symbolic and material, by investigating spaces where the state and death intersect in revealing ways: cemeteries, cremation, monuments, rituals, and religious institutions and cultures. The course will also follow, borrowing anthropologist Katherine Verdery's term, "the political lives of dead bodies," the ways in which states mobilize dead bodies to reconfigure the political order.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA CHUM
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENVS-MN)(ENVS)(HIST-MN)(HIST)(REES-MN)(REES-Social Sci)
Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50%

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