Anthropologies of Insurgency: Bandits, Rebels and Freedom Fighters

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course explores the interlinked categories of rebel, bandit, and freedom fighter to understand insurgency from an anthropological viewpoint. Privileging sociological and micropolitical analysis, the course approaches specific instances of illegal use of force in their sociocultural and historic settings, and builds toward a consideration of insurgency from "the actors' points of view".