Communication 497P - ST- On Citizenship & Belonging

Citizenships and belongings are unstable, dynamic, ongoing sites of struggle that animate one another. This course looks at citizenships and belongings as communication practices that include and produce multiple and competing discourses, relations, and lived experiences. Using critical women of color, feminist, queer and performance theories, the course begins and centers questions on citizenships and belongings from and through their systemic exclusions, namely those whose subjectivities, bodies, identities and relations place them outside the bounds of the norm. This decolonial approach includes the makings and doings of intersectionality, reflexivity, resistance, counterpublics, and worldmakings through narratives, creativity, aesthetics, and embodiments of POC, queer, trans, working class, migrant, and others who forge alternate intimacies, citizenships and belongings. Course work will include, but will not be limited to, opportunities for non-normative knowledge production and research such as such as performance, creative and experimental writing, digital and visual practice.

Open to Senior and Junior Communication majors only.