Ethnography Studio
12:10pm–2:00pm
SCHERMERHORN HALL SCH 467 EXT
Morningside
Seat data provenance: Directory as of August 23, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Description
Ethnography is often taught as a method of observation. This course begins from a different premise: ethnography is a political technology of knowledge production shaped by empire, race, capital, gender, and disciplinary power. It is also a fragile and unfinished writing practice that scholars continually remake. This seminar treats ethnography as a site of struggle over these questions: Who can produce knowledge? Whose worlds become legible? Which archives endure? What research should refuse to know? And, how writing itself organizes relations of power?
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- 4 credits
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