Violence and conflict take on many forms in all societies. Violent exclusions based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and religion are paramount to many conflicts present in the world today. This course will address violence in the context of anthropological theory and will draw on examples from ethnographic research on a range of topics such as tribal conflict, modern warfare, political violence and terrorism. Students will study violence as a phenomena ever present in our histories and our daily lives and also look at subjects such as trauma, social suffering and recovery.
Basically this is a class for us to question what we think about conflict, identity and how they are connected. This is more generally a class to expose ourselves to different issues connected to violence, inequality and understanding more about how we are connected to different social problems in the world. Many of the topics that we talk about are difficult, unpleasant and some are extremely upsetting. It is okay to be upset, the important point is to develop our awareness and a more critical understanding of power dynamics and how we view each other.
Basically this is a class for us to question what we think about conflict, identity and how they are connected. This is more generally a class to expose ourselves to different issues connected to violence, inequality and understanding more about how we are connected to different social problems in the world. Many of the topics that we talk about are difficult, unpleasant and some are extremely upsetting. It is okay to be upset, the important point is to develop our awareness and a more critical understanding of power dynamics and how we view each other.
- 教師: Rickard, Joshua