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This course introduces students to literature that discusses risk, surveillance, and social control. Emphasizing sociological and anthropological approaches, topics may include risk and surveillance in the contexts of local and global migrations, our changing climate, policing and national security, public health and medical care, work and leisure, consumption and addiction, urban spaces, and digital traces of our social relations and cultures. The course also prepares students interested in taking more advanced courses that deal with themes of risk, surveillance, fear, digital culture, consumption and addiction in everyday life.
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