ASSIGNMENT QUESTION: HOW MIGHT EXPERIENCES OF ISOLATION AFFECT A PERSON’S SENSE OF SELF?

DISCUSS WITH REFERENCES TO KEY READINGS FROM THE COURSE AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS.

COURSE READING LIST
Essential

Adriana Cavarero. Inclining the subject: Ethics, alterity and natality .
Fuentes, Marisa J.. Dispossessed lives : enslaved women, violence, and the archive . Please read ‘Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown.’
Gail Lewis. Questions of Presence .
Jennifer Mason. Observing and Participating .
Kelvin E. Y. Low. The sensuous city: Sensory methodologies in urban ethnographic research .
Les Back. Why Everyday Life Matters: Class, Community and Making Life Livable .
Lisa Baraitser. Enduring Time . Please read Chapter 5: ‘Enduring.’
Lisa Guenther. Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives . Please read ‘Introduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement.’
Saidiya Hartman. Venus in Two Acts .
Saidiya Hartman. Wayward lives, beautiful experiments .
Saidiya Hartman. Wayward lives, beautiful experiments .
Sianne Ngai. Visceral Abstractions .
Tina Campt. The Grain of the Amateur .
Recommended

Campt, Tina, 1964-. Listening to images .
Cavarero, Adriana.. Relating narratives: storytelling and selfhood .
Christina Sharpe. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being .
Judith Butler. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street .
Karl Marx. The Method of Political Economy .
Maria Tamboukou. Feeling the Real: The Non-Nomadic Subject of Feminism .
Marina Vishmidt. Bodies in Space .
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten. Michael Brown .