Governing Space: Confinement, Circulation, and Surveillance
SOC-STD 98SG
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Description
How do states, empires, and institutions exercise power through space? This course examines the infrastructures, architectures, and atmospheres through which governance operates, tracing how spatial arrangements shape collective life, regulate conduct, and materialize domination. Drawing on political theory, urban sociology, carceral studies, and legal geography, we explore how spatial regimes take form—from colonial enclosures and internal colonies to national monuments, urban displacement, juridical inscription, and atmospheric control—asking how space governs where we move, who we become, and what futures remain imaginable.
Course Notes
This course will be lotteried and is open to non-concentrators if space permits. This course must be taken for a Letter Grade and cannot be taken Pass/Fail.
Not Available for Cross Registration
