29732
Graduate Course
WiSe 13/14: Migration, Gender and Emotion
Forrest Holmes
Comments
For anthropology, 'globalization' is manifest above all in the accelerated mobility of people and symbols, of emergent global dynamics in media and migration (Appadurai 1996). Though migration is a constant throughout human history, in other words, today's world is defined in many places by new forms and experiences of it. This seminar will begin by surveying contemporary ethnographic approaches to migration, mobility and transnationalism, before focussing on questions of subjectivity and subject-formation in migrant contexts. On the one hand, this involves engaging with issues such as belonging and identity, particularly as these relate to the concept of diaspora. On the other hand, this seminar will explore in greater depth the point at which cultural systems of meaning, in the conventional sense, interface with the bodily and spontaneous: emotions. Emotions are beginning to receive more specific attention in ethnographic research on migration and transnationalism, and we will discuss the unique perspective such a focus can provide. We will also devote specific attention to gender as a factor of overarching significance in migration contexts. Women not only migrate in specific ways, but the emotional dynamics in which they participate are differently patterned than those engaged in by men, sometimes radically so. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2013-10-15 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-10-22 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-10-29 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-05 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-12 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-19 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-26 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-12-03 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-12-10 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-12-17 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-07 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-14 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-21 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-02-04 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-02-11 14:00 - 16:00