This introductory course explores the ways that the idea of culture underpins legal and political discourses, frameworks and agendas. Using the work of post-colonial, feminist and legal anthropologists, we will do a close (and interesting!) reading of primary sources, such as UN protocols and conventions, asylum and refugee principles, and development and anti-trafficking campaigns to explore: the boundaries of culture’s explanatory power; how problematic assumptions about the Global South are reproduced and mobilized through cultural explanations; and how activists from the Global South respond to and reframe these assumptions.
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Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Course Level: 2000-level
Credits: 4
M/W/Th 8:30AM - 9:50AM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Course Frequency: One time only
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