Seminar: BA: Care, Labor and Technology - Details

Seminar: BA: Care, Labor and Technology - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: BA: Care, Labor and Technology
Veranstaltungsnummer BA: SE: SO/I
Semester WiSe 2026/27
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 2
erwartete Teilnehmendenzahl 35
Heimateinrichtung Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Nächster Termin Montag, 19.10.26, 16:15 - 17:45 Uhr Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum
Voraussetzungen Recommended Reading: Weekly readings have been assigned and uploaded on the Student Portal
Lernorganisation Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.
Leistungsnachweis Modulleistung: Individual essay on the topic of “Politics of Care and Disregard in the World” (8000 words)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
SWS 2
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum

  • Montag, 16:15 - 17:45, Wöchentlich (ab dem 19.10.26)

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

What does care look like to you? Is it when families care for children, elderly or sick members in need of special attention? Is it picking up your friend from the airport? Is it political activism towards better futures? It is tending to, fixing and learning to live with human and non-human others? Is care always liberating or can it be complicit in sustaining various forms of unfreedom? This course is designed to understand how care is an important lens to understand social organization and how it impacts the individual as they exist in relation with human, non-human others as well as powerful institutions, like the state and the market, that impacts life chances. This course will offer insights on what care can look like in different settings, hospitals, homes, cities, farms, refugee camps, how caring is determined by structural and political conditions. In this course students will learn about care informed by a range of perspectives from feminist, queer, black, disability studies, STS and decolonial theory. They will learn about care as a deeply intersectional phenomenon. They will also learn about care as mediated through different laboring bodies and technologies and how to study care critically in their future research sites. This seminar is aimed at critically thinking about the world we currently live in and how human life and dignity can be sustained in the near future.