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Immigration and the Politics of Fear
This course will examine the role of fear in shaping ideas about immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. We start from the notion that emotions are social formations with particular histories and political significance. We will refrain from assuming that fear is nothing more than a feeling or an automatic response and instead take it as a site that allows us to examine how psychological and legal experts together define and dispute what is normal, reasonable, credible, plausible, real, appropriate, and timely. The seminar will cover themes such as risk and threat, race and origin, pain and injury, confession and testimony, fiction and figuration, and personhood and representation. We will look at newspaper articles, social media content, legal opinions, case law, court transcripts, and psychological evaluations, as well as texts in politics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, comics, and films. Students will write a short essay on the politics of fear. Throughout the course, they will develop their toolkit to critically reflect on an emotion of their choice.
Details:
- Catalog Number
- ANTHRO 15S-01
- Class Number
- 22919
- Course Cost
- $4116.00
- Population
- High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
- Units
- 3
- Interest Area
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- Course Format & Length
- In-Person, 8 weeks
- Instructors
- Valentina Ramia
- Dates
- -
- Schedule
- Tue, Thu 11:30 AM - 1:20 PM
- Course Notes
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All readings will be available on Canvas under the “Files” tab. The links to films and media archives will be sent as “Announcements” on Canvas.