Disgust is an emotion, feeling and affective response. It is felt in the body and experienced as a desire for expulsion and distance. While both highly subjective and individual, disgust also has significant social and political effects. In this course students are engaged to reflect on the experience of disgust, its universal nature and particular social and political force. Moving beyond the individual as the locus of disgust, students will be encouraged to develop a critical sensibility and attentiveness to interactions of disgust, as a powerful method for anthropological writing and anlaysis. In this way the course will situated disgust in social, political and religious contexts as a force of abjection and marginalisation but also as affording the potential for radical and embodied forms of critique.
Aims for the course:
• To foster a strong foundation in anthropological research and ethnographic attentiveness.
• To critically engage the connections disgust and social and political life.
• To develop an acute awareness of how value is mediated in non-discursive ways.
Aims for the course:
• To foster a strong foundation in anthropological research and ethnographic attentiveness.
• To critically engage the connections disgust and social and political life.
• To develop an acute awareness of how value is mediated in non-discursive ways.
- Facilitator: Daniel Juan Gouws
- Facilitator: Stephanie Jacobs
- Facilitator: Banele Luvuno
- Facilitator: JESMé EUGENIE Swartz
- Facilitator: Shaheed Tayob