Latin American Studies 201st - Colloquium: Topics in Latin American and Latino/a/x Studies-Surveillance, Tech, and Latinx Communities

This course examines critical interdisciplinary intersections between Surveillance, STS, and Latinx studies. It focuses on colonialism, capitalism, neoliberalism, and their role in shaping surveillance, security, and nation-empire building. It also explores how Latina/o/x communities experience surveillance and technology from colonialism to contemporary dynamics of dehumanization. Students read writings on surveillance, discipline, and punishment, centering racialized and gendered scholars like Ivan Chaar Lopez, Simone Browne, and Joy James. The course studies surveillance and tech systems controlling global mobility, migration, enclosures, extraction, and reproductive and sexual labor. Finally, students read how Latinx communities use technologies for memory, placemaking, information sharing, and struggle. Enrollment limited to 20.