ANTHROP 706 / Bodies, Politics, Data

3 unit(s)

This course examines how power operates in, on, and through the body. We will attend to how the datafication and surveillance of health, bodily processes, and life itself reconfigure and reinvent racialized, sexed, gendered, and other categories of difference through which bodies and populations are classified and managed. The case studies and theoretical frameworks for this course draw inspiration from scholarship in anthropology, queer/trans studies, Black studies, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies (STS). Areas of inquiry may include global/ public health, biomedicine, carcerality and surveillance, genetic science, algorithms, international development, and human rights.