ANTH 257S - Surveillance
Looks at surveillance in anthropology and related social studies/humanistic disciplines. Engages work on observing, the power dynamics of watching and being watched, and technologies of surveying and surveillance—from colonial ethnography to contemporary regimes of data collection. Readings examine state surveillance, policing, bureaucracy, and digital platforms, alongside less formal practices of monitoring embedded in care, labor regimes, humanitarianism, and everyday life. Emphasizing ethnographic approaches, the course attends to how surveillance is lived, felt, and unevenly distributed. Also explores refusal, protest, opacity, and counter-surveillance as political and ethical responses.
Elana Resnick
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