300217 Social Dis/Orders: Caste, Race, Gender in Focus (WkS) (SoSe 2017)

This term’s research class will be organized in 4 or 5 topical blocks lasting for 6 til 8 hours. The doctoral students will be expected to present their material - such as empirical data, literature recherche, (parts of) chapters - while paying attention to the following topics / concepts:

1) Symbolic / social boundary dynamics
2) Lives and bodies in borderlands / ‘fronterias’ and transits
3) Social (con)figurations with the focus at activist / intellectual positionings
4) (Positional) movements and imaginaries

More topics relating to the broader theme of ‘social dis/orders’ can be suggested and agreed upon before and at the beginning of the Summer Term.