INFRASTRUCTURES AND POWER

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

This seminar course asks why “infrastructure” – that which enables other things to happen – has recently become such an important concept in the human sciences. After reviewing recent and classic theoretical approaches we explore recent anthropological studies of infrastructures-in-action ranging from information and media infrastructures to environmental and biotic infrastructures to infrastructures of governance and power. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 622 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 422 if student has credit for ANTH 622 .