ILRIC 6377

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ILRIC 6377
Issues in South Asian Studies

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

This course is an exploration of agrarian political economy that holds "culture" and cultural theory at its core. It begins with a close reading of Williams's (1973) The Country and the City, which attends to the imaginative and material uses of agrarian space (including the people that inhabit that space) over time. We will also think through Williams's political economy, its influences, and his broader theories work, politics, society, and agrarian life. Williams's analytical model holds work and productivism, affect and aesthetics, and political economy in the frame together. A cultural theory-inspired agrarian studies follows on from this tradition, drawing from anthropology, geography, history, and beyond to further explore the relationships between production and consumption, extraction and accumulation, labor and leisure.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRIC 4377

  • 1.5 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 20958 ILRIC 6377   SEM 101

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    • M Uris Hall G08
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Besky, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This is an events-based course. It is open to both undergraduate (at the 4000-level) or graduate students (at the 6000-level). Students will attend ten seminars in the South Asia Program seminar series, participate actively in them, and write short response papers of about 300 words on each event. Graduate students must complete some additional reading. Students signed up for the course will meet briefly in advance of the first seminar to discuss course logistics.