Grounding the Global Anthropological Perspectives Professor Ieva Jusionyte
Grounding the Global: Anthropological Perspectives Professor: Ieva Jusionyte jusionyte@fas. harvard. edu Office Hrs: Weds 10: 30 -11: 30 & Thurs 2 -3 pm in Tozzer 216 TF: Shuang Lu shuanglu@fas. harvard. edu Office Hrs: Tues 2 -4 in Tozzer 315
9/28 Lecture outline Module I: Political Anthropology Case study: Migration and the U. S. -Mexico border • Q&A with Jason de León • Continue the topic of migration: o “Migration-specific capital” (Bourdieu; economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital) o Anti-immigrant laws: 287(g), Arizona’s SB 1070, “Secure Communities”, Operation Streamline) o Media portrayals of migration (word choice, metaphors) • Written assignment #1 due Friday, September 30
• "The magazine covers serve, in this way, as a finger on the pulse beat of America's concern with immigration, a concern that is often at odds with itself. " (82 -83)
https: //thesocietypages. org/socimages/2014/08/16/saturday-stat-the-invention-of-the-illegal-immigrant/
http: //ideas. time. com/2012/09/21/immigration-debate-the-problem-with-the-word-illegal/ http: //www. cc. com/video-clips/82 ovjs/the-colbert-report-jose-antonio-vargas
https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Gz. EUHF 1 KPY 8
Next class MODULE II Medical & Urban Anthropology: Injury and Survival in Inner-City Chicago 10/5 Urban poverty, abandonment, development Required readings: • Laurence Ralph, 2014. Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Part I) • Paul Farmer, 2004. “An Anthropology of Structural Violence. ” Current Anthropology 45(3): 305– 325. Q&A with Laurence Ralph
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