CLJ 330
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Global Prisons and Confinement
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Course Description
Prisons worldwide are widely acknowledged as institutions that impose strict limits on individual autonomy and mobility. Yet people's freedoms are regulated through spatial and disciplinary technologies that exceed the prison. This course will explore
how prisons and carceral systems are interconnected and operate globally. We will ask questions such as why are young women in India's university hostels subject to routine surveillance and "curfew" hours? How are state energy projects for environmental conservation implicated in the confinement of marginalized fishing communities in Rwanda? To explore these we will look at how technologies of surveillance, bodily regulation, time, and labor popularly associated with the prison
are exported to different domains of our everyday lives. And how families, communities and institutions engage, embrace, resist, and reinvent these technologies from a cross-cultural and dynamic perspective. The course will pay attention to how they interact with structures of caste, and race that differentially
impact people across a range of institutional and intimate sites such as psychiatric institutions, shelters, homes, and neighborhoods.
how prisons and carceral systems are interconnected and operate globally. We will ask questions such as why are young women in India's university hostels subject to routine surveillance and "curfew" hours? How are state energy projects for environmental conservation implicated in the confinement of marginalized fishing communities in Rwanda? To explore these we will look at how technologies of surveillance, bodily regulation, time, and labor popularly associated with the prison
are exported to different domains of our everyday lives. And how families, communities and institutions engage, embrace, resist, and reinvent these technologies from a cross-cultural and dynamic perspective. The course will pay attention to how they interact with structures of caste, and race that differentially
impact people across a range of institutional and intimate sites such as psychiatric institutions, shelters, homes, and neighborhoods.
Course Typically Offered
Offered spring semester
Career
Undergraduate
Catalog Course Attributes
AUDT - NO (Cannot be audited.), CO24 - SOCSCI (Social Sci and Historical), INTD - ASIA (Asian Studies ASIA), INTD - SOAN (Sociology & Anthropology SOAN)
Min Units
1
Max Units
1
Name
Lecture
Optional Component
No
Final Exam Type
Yes