SOC 596

Fall 2024 All Classes

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Recent Developments in Soc

Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive study of selected topics based on contemporary works of major importance in the development of sociological theory.

May be repeated if topics vary.

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SOC 596 class schedule data for fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32748	Lecture-Discussion	MG2	3:30PM -6:20PM	M	115 English Building	Moussawi, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Title: Power, Coloniality, Empire Section Info: This seminar will introduce you to the wide-ranging scholarship on power, empire, and coloniality. We will unpack transnational and colonial structures of domination, while centering the intersections of race, racisms, and racializations, ethnicity, gender and (un)gendering processes, sexuality, and nation and nationalisms. To do so, we will ask the following questions: What is empire? What is coloniality? How does the study of empire help us better understand our contemporary moment? What is at the center of colonial projects and technologies of power? How does empire feel, for those who are colonized and colonizers? And how does empire shape research agendas and knowledge production? We will address a range of topics and theoretical perspectives including: settler colonialisms, comparative empire, south-south solidarities, indigeneity and indigenous studies, racial capitalism, queer theory, decolonial sociology, postcolonial feminist sociology, emotions and affect, territory and land, and migration. Throughout the course we will think about the potentials of having an anti-colonial sociology, what that might look like, and how it impacts our scholarly and public facing work. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.