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Katharyne Mitchell
GEOG 553
Seattle Campus
Focuses on important contemporary topics in cultural geography. Examines current theoretical debates in anthropology, sociology, geography, feminist criticism, and cultural studies as they relate to the landscape. Include critical questions surrounding issues of representation and ethnography. Designed to help student prepare for advanced fieldwork. Offered: Sp.
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This graduate seminar introduces and provides a geographical perspective on what Michel Foucault proposed as the analytic of governmentality or 'art of government.' It focuses specifically on the assemblages of power targeting subjects of rule in the contemporary neoliberal moment. Governmentality has often been described as “the conduct of conduct,” and neoliberal governmentality can be seen to combine the forces of the market and the state to rationalize the conduct of many aspects of modern life. In this course we investigate specific sites and technologies in which power is rationalized under conditions of free-market globalization.
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