ClassInfo - Fall 2021 Global Studies Classes

Fall 2021 | GLOS 3707 Section 001: Disposable People?: Surplus Value, Surplus Humanity (34024)

Instructor(s): Vinay Gidwani
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021

Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 235
Enrollment Status:: Open (24 of 35 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Spring 2024
Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: How do economic and social arrangements generate marginalized populations that are considered "surplus"? What is distinctive about "surplus populations" in the present global age? Have certain segments of humanity -- remaindered lives as it were -- become "disposable" within the existing order of things? In what ways does capitalism's drive for productivity and profit contribute to the rise of superfluous populations? How do states "manage" surplus populations? Who is considered "deserving" and who is not? What kinds of political and ethical questions does the existence "surplus humanity" force us to confront? Our course will address these urgent issues, and others beside by bringing together theoretical and empirical writings on the themes of work, precarity, automation, race, poverty, law, social movements, rights, and politics. Class sessions will be a combination of lectures, student-led discussions, debates, and analysis of audio-visual materials.
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