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Class number:
2922
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Title: Border Intimacies |
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Department: Human Rights Studies |
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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 19 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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Available seats: 3 |
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Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, MC - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Aldrete, Diana |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Part of the evolution in border studies is recognizing borders as institutions governing the lives of individuals and groups, and as such conjure ideas of separation from self to the other. Considering Human Rights to be a modern theoretical ideal, the topic of power and sovereignty is further assessed in relation to border policies. How does the border affect the intimate connections of home, kinship, familial and ancestral ties, culture, gender, sexuality, language, race, class, and labor? How does globalization and neoliberalism affect migrants who must form intimacies in a new space? This course explores different "border intimacies" forged by people engaging with violence, institutional structures, and cultural practices as they cross borders. Readings include border studies, human rights, social sciences, ecocriticism, and the humanities. |