ANTH 479 B Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology (Mobility, Economy, and Disease)
Summer 2020 [full-term] (SLN: 14443)
Time: MW 9:40-11:50
Zoom Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91171863716
Instructor: Khathaleeya Liamdee, Ph.C. Sociocultural Anthropology (liamdk@uw.edu)
Syllabus: Link
Introductory Survey: Link (Please finish the survey before the class time)
Image: A medic checks the temperature of a driver coming from Italy due to the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Italy at the Brenner Pass border crossing between Italy and Austria. (Photo by Andreas Gebert/Reuters)
Course Description:
This course introduces students to fundamental concepts about globalization, cross-border movements, and multiple forms of mobility across space, time, and identity in relation to the issues of health and infectious diseases. It is an invitation to think critically about the mobility and immobility of people and things. The readings comprise wide-range literatures about how biopolitics, governmentality, transnationalism, and global capital impact complex patterns of migration and disease controls at the borders. In addition, students will be prompted to explore a case of COVID-19 pandemic through the issues of economic and health disparities and state regulation of movement.
Course Format:
This course has two weekly zoom meetings: Monday and Wednesday mornings from 9:40 – 11:50. We will usually take a break during the class time, though we may elect to end class early depending on the program for the day and zoom fatigue. During our class meetings we will be having a brief lecture session relating to assigned readings each day and we will routinely break into several formats of group discussion. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any special requirement for accessing reading materials and viewing the visual materials we cover in class or for participating in the lecture or discussions.
Student learning goals:
- Students understand anthropological perspectives on mobilities as fundamental forms of the lived experience of human and more-than-human beings.
- Students can demonstrate the interrelation between mobility, economy, and disease.
- Students examine the case of COVID19 from their own interests to express personal concerns and hopes and to provide feasible policy recommendation by applying anthropological concepts from reading materials.