Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
The course explores how identities are
constructed and how these constructions intersect with the construction
of knowledge. Through scholarly readings, fiction and films we will
explore the mutual constitution of identities and the nature of
knowledge. Readings will range from Focauldian perspectives on the birth
of society and the archeology of knowledge, to subaltern studies
discussion on colonial and postcolonial knowledge(s), to Donna
Harraway's manifesto of the Cyborg.
- Theories on social construction, construction of individual identity,
construction of group identity, Gender, class, caste and other forms
of difference
- Panopticon, the birth of society, modes of embodiment Nationalism,
national identity, Orientalism, memory and identity, transnational
identity
- Colonial constructions of the colonized, postcolonial identities
- The politics of reality, subject formation, Structure and agency,
humanism, positivism, environmental determinism
- The archeology of knowledge, power-knowledge, discourse, dialectics
- Relationship of identity to place and environment
- Indigenous knowledge(s), feminist critique of scientific knowledge,
feminist science, subaltern knowledge(s)
- M. Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory,
The Crossing Press, Berkeley (1983).
- M. Foucault. The Archaeology of Knowledge, translated from 1969
version by A. M.S. Smith. Routledge (2002).
- P. Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and
Postcolonial Histories, Princeton University Press (1993).
- M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison,
Translated from 1979 version by A. M. Sheridan, Random House, New York
2nd edition (1995).
- D. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature, Routledge (1991).
- E. Said, Orientalism, Vintage, New York (1979).
- U. Narayan, Dislocating culture: Identities, traditions and
Third World Feminisms, Routledge (1997).
- Other materials will include journal articles and films.
