Anthropology 2590-02:  Saving the World?

Anthropologies of Development and Humanitarianism

Instructor:                China Scherz – Office: 208 Brooks – crs4he@virginia.edu

Lecture Time:          Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45

Lecture Location:    Dell 1 105

Office hours:            Wednesdays 2-4:30 and by appointment – please use the sign up feature on Collab to secure a slot

Over the second-half of the 20th century development and humanitarianism largely came to replace colonialism and mission as the dominant forms of international engagement.  In this course we will explore the production and representation of development and humanitarianism’s subjects and objects and the politics and anti-politics of intervention.  In so doing we will map the historical contexts and contemporary practices of these distinct, but related, modes of “world saving.”