ClassInfo - Spring 2020 Global Studies Classes

Spring 2020 | GLOS 5611 Section 001: Stories, Bodies, Movements (67427)

Instructor(s): Richa Nagar
Pramila Vasudevan (Secondary Instructor)
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 6 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: GLOS 3611 Section 001
GWSS 3611 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020

Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 215
Enrollment Status:: Open (4 of 5 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: For most of us, stories seem to simply 'happen.' We listen to stories, we tell stories, we are moved by stories, and we retell stories. However, every act of telling stories involves making decisions or moves, and each re-telling of a familiar story may either give birth to new meanings, nuances, and affects, or, it may erase their possibility. Thus, each storyteller can be seen as a translator of stories with a responsibility to retell stories ethically. It is precisely through these translational acts that all politics become politics of storytelling. In this course, we will consider the ways in which the politics of the global and the intimate derive their meanings, effects, and affects from the circulation, transaction, and re-tellings of stories within and across borders. We will ask how a praxis of ethical engagement with politics can be imagined as a praxis of receiving and retelling stories. By immersing ourselves in the process of remembering, telling, listening, trimming, interweaving, distilling, and performing stories, we will consider how ethical receiving and retelling of stories involves continuous revising, repositioning, and re-theorizing of such vexed and entangled terrains and terminologies as identity, community, rights, and justice, as well as the contingent meanings of knowledge, truth, and ethics. This course engages this terrain through a mode of active learning in which all the participants will read and reflect, listen and discuss, tell and retell, watch and play, move and perform collectively. By becoming aware of the ways in which our minds-bodies-souls are inserted in the receiving and translation of stories, we will grapple together with the ways in which our bodies--as our embodiments--help to relationally shape not only our own performances but also our responses to the performances of other living and moving bodies around us. We will learn from writings, film, songs, and plays by writers, artists, activists, and thinkers from a r
Class Notes:: Grad student only, or instr consent. Contact Richa Nagar at nagar@umn.edu FFI.
Class Description:: Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67427/1203

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