Anthropology 488 –Modern Europe - 11-12:20 M/W
Professor Jessica Greenberg
391 Davenport Hall
Please email for appointments to meet jrgreenb@illinois.edu
In recent years, the Anthropology of Europe has produced exciting and innovative contributions to some of the most central debates in the social sciences. At the same time, changing geopolitical relations in the post-Cold-War and postcolonial world have challenged Europe’s privileged status as the arbiter of political and social modernity. Using ethnographic case studies, cultural studies and social theory, we will interrogate modern Europe as an ideological, cultural, political, and economic project. We will ask how the anthropology of Europe-in-crisis sheds light on contemporary social challenges including: political economy and neoliberalism; immigration and citizenship; the politics of race and gender; human rights and law, and the future of democracy.
- Teacher: Jessica Greenberg