ANTH 2732 - THEORIZING FROM EX-CENTRIC SITES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In a recent essay, anthropologist Faye Harrison (2016, 170) calls on anthropologists to theorize from "ex-centric sites"-"Southern" locations, "particularly the peripheral zones where critical intellectual trajectories have been sustained despite trends toward erasure." Taking up Harrison's call, this advanced graduate seminar engages decolonial theories advanced by scholars from Southern locations or peripheralized social groups. We will critically engage the works of scholars like Anibal Quijano, Amie Cesaire, Christina Sharpe, David Scott, Faye Harrison, Franz Fanon, Jean Casimir, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Walter D. Mignolo, Catherine E. Walsh, Yanick Lahens, Valentine Y. Mudimbe, Ramon Grosfoguel, Ngg wa Thiong'o, and others. We will also explore how these scholars' ideas and methods may inform how we engage our research praxis.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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