| Course Title: Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Productive and Reproductive Labor in the Middle East' |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: How has global capitalism shaped labor and the lives of working people in the Middle East, a region that has historically been considered marginal to European and North American metropoles? This question will guide our analysis of "free" versus "unfree" and "formal" versus "informal" labor. We will develop a better understanding of the shifting location of the Middle East within the world economy. We will examine ways in which the region's incorporation into the global economy has relied on and encouraged the spread of "unfree" and "informal" labor. Finally, we will study the effects of this proliferation of unfree and informal labor on the organization of reproductive and care labor within households in different parts of the Middle East. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Nadia Latif | nlatif@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Seminar | Wednesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 126 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Anthropology or Middle Eastern Studies. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| MDEAS0001 | MDEAS: Middle Eastern Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Middle Eastern Studies major. |
| ASIAN0001 | ASIAN: Asian Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 8 | Available: 7 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Author: Engels, Friedrich Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781839761515 Publisher: Verso |
Required | 19.95 |
| Title: Uprooting: The Crisis of Traditional Agriculture in Algeria Author: Bourdieu, Pierre Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780745623542 Publisher: Polity Press |
Required | 34.95 |
| Title: Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Author: Rosenfeld, Maya Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780804749879 Publisher: Stanford University Press |
Required | 38.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |