This course engages with the ideas of those who, in their struggles for dignity, have been in overt and subtle ways rendered enemies of the state. It explores how they challenge received knowledge about what life should look like, including even the notion that it need be lived within the very structure of the state. The course engages a wide-ranging set of actors: from out-and-out anarchists to feminists urging for more intimate kinds of reordering. It engages with the communities of care that sidestep the regimes of life ordered by the states in which they find themselves. We also ask the crucial question, who decides who the enemies are?

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: