Course Description
Summary
This introductory course explores the ways that the idea of culture underpins legal and political discourses, frameworks and agendas. Using the work of post-colonial, feminist and legal anthropologists, we will do a close (and interesting!) reading of primary sources, such as UN protocols and conventions, asylum and refugee principles, and development and anti-trafficking campaigns to explore: the boundaries of culture鈥檚 explanatory power; how problematic assumptions about the Global South are reproduced and mobilized through cultural explanations; and how activists from the Global South respond to and reframe these assumptions.
