The End of Citizenship (249-0-20)

Instructors

Paul James Gillingham
847/467-4829
Harris Hall - Room 323

Meeting Info

Harris Hall L06: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

This course explores the historically shifting characteristics of what makes people think, feel and act like citizens across the world and in spaces stretching from polling booths to bowling leagues. Students will look at texts of global history as disparate as Aristotle's Politics, the poetry of Claudia Rankine, and dystopian analyses of digital surveillance from Ecuador to South Africa. By placing these in historical context the course centres on the ends of citizenship, understood in two ways: ends as in the goals of people who are or would be citizens, and ends as in the processes through which those peoples' citizenship can be terminated.

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Foundational Discipline
Social and Behavioral Science Foundational Discipl
Historical Studies Distro Area
Global Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area