Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: Visual anthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology that studies the production and reception of visual media, the visual practices humans employ, human understandings of the visual, and the impacts of the visual on various aspects of human life. Visual anthropologists also use visual methods to document their research. This course […]
Course Director (Fall 2025): D. Winland - winland@yorku.ca The focus of this course is populism, political radicalism, the alt/new right, concepts that have generated a great deal of discussion and debate in media, academia and in everyday conversation. It has been used to describe authoritarian populist leaders including Recep Erdogan in Turkey, Viktor Orban in […]
Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: How do we live and interact with others in multicultural and multiracial communities in Canada? What is the relationship between settler colonialism and multiculturalism? What is the future of multiculturalism? This study away course is a critical study of colonialism,settler colonialism, multiculturalism, and Canadian nation-making by attending to: (a) the […]
Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: Examines anthropological studies of science and technology to explore the power of scientific facts in contemporary cultures. Considers how facts are produced and stabilized in scientific laboratories, how facts are made to travel, and how we incorporate facts in our daily lives and practices. Key themes include the politics of […]
Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course explores questions of identity and belonging in a global framework. We will examine histories of migration and subsequent configurations of cultures, identities and politics. We will explore migration to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdomand will examine how both the country of arrival, as well as […]
Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course examines the complex interplay of cultural and political forces that have created the conditions of possibility of Euro-American expansion and control on a global scale. Throughout the term, we will embark on an exploration that spans both the annals of history and the contemporary context. Through analysis of […]
Course Offering Fall 2025: This course examines the cultural forces that shape the tourist experience and the social, political, and economic consequences of tourist practice. The first part of the curriculum explores various aspects of the tourist experience, including the search for authenticity, the cultural construction of the ‘other’, postmodern encounters with spectacle, and the […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2025-26: How do the living relate to the dead? Covering topics from ancient burial rites to contemporary zombie lore, this course examines how people in cultures around the world – past and present – create, maintain, and renegotiate complex relationships between the living and the dead. The course introduces key concepts in […]
Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course challenges students to think anthropologically about politics and how people act and think politically in their everyday lives. We explore responses to the inequalities left by centuries of colonialism, decades of neoliberalism, the impacts of war, conflict and dislocation, climate change and the rise of authoritarian populism.
Course Director (Fall 2025): O. Alexandrakis - oalexand@yorku.ca As a vast assemblage of humans and non-humans, the city presents unique theoretical and methodological challenges for anthropology. This course introduces students to the theoretical frameworks and methodological tools used by anthropologists through experiential activities and critical readings of ethnographic case studies from both the Global North […]