ANTH 635: Regional Ethnography

ANTH 635-001: Space, Place, and Mobilities
(Spring 2027)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T

Horizon Hall 4000

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Section Information for Spring 2027

ANTH 635 - 001: Space, Place, and Mobilities

This course examines space, place, and mobilities, and their confluence, as social, cultural, and political processes shaped by power, governance, institutions, inequality, aspiration, and desire. From anthropology, we pay attention to dwelling, attachment, and the lived texture of place. From geography, we consider the politics of space: what shapes it, who controls it, and who is excluded from it. From mobilities research, we focus on flows, circulation, and the politics of who gets to move, and who gets stopped. Together, they give us a wider lens and sharper vocabulary for thinking about public spaces, infrastructures, borders, and other sites where social worlds are built, policed, and contested.


Our questions are theoretical and political: How do publics form, or fail to form, in shared space? How do liberal and illiberal projects materialize in roads, checkpoints, plazas, and elsewhere? What does democracy look like on the ground, and in transit? And how do aspirations, for a better life, a better place, a way out, take shape within and against material constraint?


Expect close readings of ethnography (across several regions) alongside social theory, cultural analysis, and your own emerging projects.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

In-depth study of peoples and cultures of a specific world region (e.g., East Asia, Latin America, South Asia) and critical scholarship on the region. Content may include cultures defined by diaspora, migration, and other global forces and processes. Notes: May be repeated when topic is different. Offered by Sociology & Anthropology. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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