Anthropology 546 - Critical Knowledge Practices

This course is designed for people who are actively attempting to teach, conduct research, or do social change work in a way that engages and cultivates the knowledge of marginalized communities. Organized efforts of marginalized people to produce collective knowledge and to make their knowledge matter have bubbled up in and been transported to many places and spaces across the globe, from rural Chiapas to rural Denmark, Appalachia to the Bronx, Brazil to Tanzania, the World Bank to the World Social Forum. This course provides a structure for weekly learning and dialogue about the contexts and implications of such diverse critical knowledge practices, and invites students to consider how the course materials might inform their own practices.

Critical Pedagogy: Global Theories and Practices