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Apr 23, 2024
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POLS 4756 - The Politics of Visibility
Vision and visibility are key organizing features of political inquiry, responsibility, governability, and contestation. Particularly in a contemporary setting inundated with technologies for seeing and rendering a wide variety of subjects and phenomena visible, power and visibility have become intrinsically interconnected. Studies the various manifestations of vision, visibility, and invisibility. Racialized politics of visibility especially emphasized, along with the multifaceted ways that visible identities more generally render some bodies and subjects more susceptible to political surveillance, social control, and discrimination.
Requisites: 6 Hours in AAS or 6 hours in POLS or 6 hours in WGS
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will comprehend the differences and points of overlap between visible and less visible identities.
- Students will have adopted as possible political practices democratic forms and forums of participation that attempt to alleviate some of the problems of a politics of visibility.
- Students will have developed critical perspectives regarding the diverse privileged vantage points for seeing, including the male and white gazes.
- Students will understand how visibility works as a political concept and technology within and along powerful structures and forces.
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