Columbia University is offering a new class this semester:
Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement, taught by
Hannah Appel. Columbia's course listing says "dissenting voices of all kinds are encouraged" . . . with
registration by instructor's permission only. Field trips to
Zuccotti Park are planned.
"ANTH V3897y Occupy the Field: Global Finance,
Inequality, Social Movement 4 pts. Hannah Appel. Occupy the Field is a
field-based course about Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement more
broadly. The course offers training in ethnographic research methods alongside a
critical exploration of the conjunctural issues in the Occupy movement: Wall
Street, finance capital, and inequality; political strategies, property and
public space, and the question of anarchy; and genealogies of the contemporary
moment in global social movements. Class time will be divided between fieldwork
in an around the Occupy movement, and seminar at Columbia. In other words, this
class will meet off-campus several times, and students will be expected to be
involved in ongoing OWS projects, to be discussed in class. While the syllabus
draws extensively on ethnographic and anthropological work, it is also broadly
interdisciplinary, incorporating texts and approaches from sociology, political
theory, economics, history, and primary source material from OWS and beyond.
The class will also incorporate guest lecturers from Columbia and the wider
intellectual and activist community. Dissenting voices of all kinds are
encouraged in this class, and one need not have a particular orientation toward
OWS to participate. REGISTRATION BY INSTRUCTOR'S PERMISSION ONLY"
May we suggest spending time instead with our
members of Congress where the odds of meeting the 1% are even higher?
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