BAIS 330 - Slow Violence Global Politics

Unit(s): 4

This course considers the following questions: What are the important ways in which our contemporary world is structured by and through violence of different forms? How have certain modes of violence been produced and legitimized such that they are no longer registered as violence in either official or popular discourses? How might we be implicated in the naturalization of violence in global politics? Throughout the course, we examine these questions in relation to several key themes, including colonialism, gendered and racialized constructions, political and economic inequalities, degraded lives and personhoods, and ecological devastation. Course materials combine interdisciplinary scholarship with oral histories, short stories, films, and poetry.

College of Arts and Sciences