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Class number:
2820
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Title: Disruptive Bodies |
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Department: Anthropology |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
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End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: T: 6:30PM-9:00PM, MC - 305 |
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Instructor(s): Eisenberg-Guyot, Nadja |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement |
Course Description:
This class will bring disability studies to bear on anthropological conversations about structural violence, processes of disablement, and the social construction of the body. We will explore disability as identity, condition, and position; the kinds of impairments that count as disabilities and according to what social, medical and political forces; the structural relations between race, gender, class, and disability; disability justice; and the politics of injury and illness. We will consider how disability might enable us to do anthropology differently through practice-based exercises, auto-ethnography, and collaborative and experimental research. Through these experiments, students will develop their own projects to construct the methods of a "crip" anthropology. |