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Grounding the Global: Anthropological Perspectives Professor: Ieva Jusionyte [email protected] Office Hrs: Weds 10:30-11:30 & Thurs 2-3pm in Tozzer 216 TF: Shuang Lu [email protected] Office Hrs: Tues 2-4 in Tozzer 315 9/28 Lecture outline Module I: Political Anthropology Case study: Migration and the U.S.-Mexico border • Q&A with Jason de León • Continue the topic of migration: o “Migration-specific capital” (Bourdieu; economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital) o Anti-immigrant laws: 287(g), Arizona’s SB 1070, “Secure Communities”, Operation Streamline) o Media portrayals of migration (word choice, metaphors) • Written assignment #1 due Friday, September 30 • "The magazine covers serve, in this way, as a finger on the pulse beat of America's concern with immigration, a concern that is often at odds with itself." (82-83) https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/08/16/saturday-stat-the-invention-of-the-illegal-immigrant/ http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/21/immigration-debate-the-problem-with-the-word-illegal/ http://www.cc.com/video-clips/82ovjs/the-colbert-report-jose-antonio-vargas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEUHF1KPY8 Next class MODULE II Medical & Urban Anthropology: Injury and Survival in Inner-City Chicago 10/5Urban poverty, abandonment, development Required readings: •Laurence Ralph, 2014. Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Part I) •Paul Farmer, 2004. “An Anthropology of Structural Violence.” Current Anthropology 45(3): 305–325. Q&A with Laurence Ralph