The course GEOG 8230: Race, Space, and Biopolitics, taught by Dr Arun Saldanha in Spring 2009. This graduate seminar seeks to investigate the conceptual intricacies of the becoming-political of human life, of ‚Äúbiopolitics.‚Ä?
GEOG 8230: Race, Space, and Biopolitics
Few students of the state, the city, colonialism, gender or war can escape at some point addressing the question of race. As a system of classifying and segregating bodies, race pops up even when we think we are studying something else. Obviously, there is biological variation within the human species, but exactly why this variation has become so insidiously political is a difficult problematic, shaking up any attempt at disciplining academic boundaries. This graduate seminar seeks to investigate the conceptual intricacies of the becoming-political of human life, of ‚Äúbiopolitics.‚Ä?
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