UGLB
3320

Spaces of Struggle: Racial Capitalism and Social Reproduction

Schools of Public Engagement: Global Studies

Spaces of Struggle
Fall 2021
Taught By: Ujju Aggarwal
Section: A

Course Reference Number: 11290

Credits: 3

The global pandemic has brought questions related to social reproduction and enclosure; capitalism and race; and the state and geographies of organized abandonment to the fore. This context has provoked new experiments, insurgencies, and mobilizations as well as greater visibility to and emphasis on vulnerability, inter-dependence, and care. These experiments have invoked the politics of mutual aid and prefigurative politics as well as insurgent claims within and against the racial state. In this course, we will explore the spaces of struggle – from occupied factories, to public schools, to homes and the domestic realm---and the attendant theories and practices of that ground collective efforts working to reimagine and redefine relationality, kinship, belonging, and rights. We will explore these spaces of struggle in relation to what they might teach us about social reproduction, racial capitalism, gender, labor, space and scale, and the state.

College: Schools of Public Engagement (NS)

Department: Global Studies (UGLB)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Max Enrollment: 13