Occupy Archaeology! Interrogating Inequality, Past and Present

We are the 99%! Black Lives Matter! These rallying cries bring inequality to the front-and-center of western political and media discourses. Yet a social system dividing the haves and have-nots is hardly a modern phenomenon. This course considers injustice diachronically and on a global scale, examining ways in which the material world studied by archaeologists creates -- and is created by -- social divisions, and critiquing the ways that archaeology as a discipline is a part of the problem.