Colonizing Time

Upper-level seminar that examines the relationship among time, power, and social difference. How modern time, colonial rule, and capitalism co-developed; how we engage ideas of time through race, kinship, sexuality; globalizing temporalities of work and unemployment; anticipatory projects such as peacebuilding, technoscience, science fiction; alternative temporalities through postcolonial critique and indigenous futurism. Prerequisites: Junior standing. One sociocultural anthropology course or consent.