ANT 458H -
ANTHROPOLOGY OF CRIME, LAW AND ORDER
SE1143, UTM, Spring 2008.
Dr. Dylan Clark, Assistant
Professor,
This course will pay special attention to the work of Michel Foucault, particularly with regard to his work on criminality, law, and order. We will explore the growth of a “modern” regime of crime and rights, and seek to explore how the expansion of “rights” is linked both to “governmentality” and to new vectors for power. In other words, we will be looking at how people in many places increasingly govern themselves, how they align themselves with concentrations of power, and how “freedom” and “rights”—which supposedly protect from power—may play roles in harnessing and augmenting power. These directions of thought will lead us to a study of the emergent forces of neo-liberalism.
Required books—please purchase:
* Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. (ISBN-10: 0679752552) (About $16 on Chapters.ca or Amazon.ca, plus expedited shipping) (OLD Vintage EDITIONS are fine! Even the page numbers are the same.)
* Foucault. Power (Essential Works of Foucault, vol. III) (ISBN-10: 1565847091) ($19 on Chapters.ca or Amazon.ca, plus expedited shipping)
* We will also have handouts and readings available on CCNET, on the UT library system, and on the Internet.
BOOKS
AND
Course grading: midterm exam 20%; final exam: 40%; research
paper:
20%. homework, quizzes, and participation (combined): 20% (ratio of 6
percent
for attendance, 6 percent for oral contributions and positive,
respectful
impact on class, 7 percent for unannounced quizzes.)
Written quizzes are possible on any
day of class. They will be based on the current
reading only, not on previous reading. This
course requires a lot of reading. If you
are unable to read a lot for this class, you should consider dropping
the
course. If you miss a quiz, there will not be a make-up. No make-ups,
that
is, except for emergencies and religious holidays (as approved by
diversity officer on campus).
Participation includes attendance, preparation, arriving
on time,
not leaving early, and being a positive and respectful member of the
class.
Oral participation is vital.
Expectations, Policies, and Common Courtesy
Attendance: Students are expected to attend all classes.
Punctuality: You are expected to arrive and be settled in your
seat by
the beginning of class and to remain until the end of class, or you
will see
deductions in your participation mark. Unless you become ill, do not
begin
packing up books or stand to leave before the end of class, because
this is
distracting to all. If you know you cannot stay for the entire period,
please
sit near the door and leave very quietly.
Courtesy in Class: Every student is expected to pay close
attention in
the lecture or film. Refrain from talking during lectures and films,
except to
ask or respond to a question from the instructor. Even quiet talking is
distracting and disrespectful for your fellow students and your
instructor.
Turn off pagers and mobile phones. In class, your undivided attention
and
courtesy is also expected; however, this is your opportunity to discuss
what
you are learning in class with your professor and one another. You are
encouraged to thoughtfully ask and answer questions, but please, no
confidential, whispered conversations. Anything you say should be
directed to
the class as a whole.
Email Communication: Emailing with your professor is a form of
professional communication. Please write courteously and clearly; do
not use
text-messaging abbreviations or slang. Please clearly indicate your
questions
or concerns. Be sure to provide a summary of the email topic in the
Subject
line (do not just write “Hi” or leave the Subject blank, or your email
may be
rejected as junk mail by the UT server). You should ALWAYS use your UT
email
address if at all possible – the UT server regularly rejects hotmail
accounts
as potential spam. Your message should be very brief, polite, and to
the point.
(For example: subject; [ANT322] Question about Sept 12th lecture.
Dear Professor Clark, I am having trouble with your claim that
It’s usually not worth explaining your missing presence, your missing
papers,
etc. Generally speaking, something came up and you missed class. It is
your
responsibility to get notes from another student. Back up your computer
files,
start projects long before they are due, and study hard. You will not
be
excused from your work: just get the job done. In severe situations
(death in
the family, disabling illness, etc.) provide written proof. I’ll
do my best to help students in crisis.
If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please
submit to me
a letter from the proper UTM authorities in a timely manner so that
your needs
may be addressed. UTM has procedures to determine accommodations based
on
documented disabilities. If you have religious scheduling concerns,
please
report these in the first or second week of class. I will do my utmost
to
respect disabilities and religious issues if they should arise.
MID-TERMS and FINAL EXAMINATIONS
Both the mid-term and final exams will consist of multiple choice,
fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions on ALL materials
presented in the
class (readings, lectures, AND films). We will also have questions in
which you
recognize the passage and answer questions about it.
The final exam will be cumulative.
*MISSED EXAMS*
Avoid missing an exam - the procedure for taking a make-up exam is
strictly
regulated by the university, and these policies will be followed in all
cases.
Please notify the instructor by email or phone as soon as possible if
you miss
an exam.
* For the Mid-term Exam, see Section 7.9 “Term Tests” in the UTM
Calendar for
2006-2007. A valid doctor's excuse or similar university-approved
excuse will
be required to take the make-up for the mid-term. ONE makeup will be
given for
the mid-term, the week after the regular exam. All makeup exams will be
short
answer format only, not multiple choice.
* For the Final Exam, see Section 7.14 “Examinations” in the UTM
Calendar for
2006-2007. You will have to submit a petition to Registrarial Services,
among
other requirements, and re-take the exam during the Deferred
Examinations
Period (possibly Feb. 2007 during Reading Week, or as otherwise
scheduled by
the university). All makeup exams will be short answer format only, not
multiple choice.
****LATE EXERCISES: (1) Late exercises may be penalized per calendar
day,
including weekends. It is your responsibility to turn in late
assignments to
the teaching assistant in her office, at her convenience. Do not submit
your
assignment to the secretary nor to anyone else in the Department of
Anthropology. Do not slide your assignment under the instructor's
office door.
The assignment has not been officially submitted until you sign the
submission
form. You are also advised to make a copy of your assignments before
submitting
them.
Cheating is strongly discouraged.
PLAGERISM on exams
and
written work: You may get lecture from other students for days when you
are
absent, but the answers you submit must be your own independent work.
Exercises
in which duplication is detected will be severely penalized. For more
details,
see Academic Honesty; and the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters in
the UTM
Calendar for 2005-2006 under Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters. It
is your
responsibility to be familiar with this code, and adhere to it.
We will use
TurnItIn.com to
protect against cheating. You must submit your papers electronically.
(If you
have a strong opposition to TurnItIn.com, please see the prof. We can
have you
submit drafts of your paper 3 weeks early and manually check them
against a
database.) Normally, students will be required to submit their course
essays to
Turnitin.com for a review of textual similarity and detection of
possible
plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be
included as
source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database, where they
will be
used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. The terms that
apply to
the University's use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the
Turnitin.com web site.
A
final warning to cheaters, plagiarizers, and other rapscallions:
• 98% of students are honest. Those who are not degrade the university
itself
and do not belong in college.
• Ignorance of university policy is no excuse. See university policies
if you
have any questions.
• If you submit a paper you yourself do not understand, you flunk the
course.
You may be required to explain your paper in a private oral
examination. If you
do not understand your "own" sentences, or the content of your
"own" paper, this will be taken as evidence of plagiarism.
• Copying large sections from a book/article/lecture/friend, and then
changing
some words, is plagiarism. If you include any information from
lectures, books,
articles, or web pages, it must be explicitly cited, with exact
references. If
you fail to do this, we will begin disciplinary proceedings.
"Accidents" are not acceptable: proofread your paper to make sure
that it is your own, and to make sure that you have given credit to
your
sources.
• Those who are caught cheating on an exam or quiz will be submitted to
disciplinary proceedings.
• Now you know.
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Notes on reading:
• Read both text and illustrations, except as noted.
• Do not fall behind. The reading is too challenging and too extensive
to cram
before an exam. Moreover, participation in class is important to the
success of
the course.
Course Calendar:
(
January 9 (begin reading ASAP)
January 16 “Truth and Juridical Forms,” (Power: 1-90)
January 23 “Body of the Condemned,” (D&P: 3-31)
“Spectacle of the Scaffold,” (D&P: 32-69)
January 30 “Generalized Punishment” (D&P: 73-103
“The
February 6 “The Politics of Health in the 18th C” (Power: 90-105)
“Omnes et Singulatim” (Power: 298-325); Kristian Williams “The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing” (about 10 short pages) (http://www.monthlyreview.org/1203williams.htm)
February 13 “Docile Bodies” (D&P: 135-69); “The Means of Correct Training” (D&P: 170-94)
READING WEEK
February 27 Midterm Examination.
March 5 “Panopticism” (D&P: 195-228; see illustrations in the middle of the book too) “Complete and Austere Institutions” (D&P: 231-56)
March 12 “Illegalities and Delinquency” (D&P: 257-92)
“The Carceral” (D&P: 293-308)
March 19 “Truth and Power” (Power: 111-33)
March 26 “Governmentality” (Power: 201-23); Pierre Bourdieu, “Utopia of Endless Exploitation: The Essence of Neoliberalism,” (http://mondediplo.com/1998/12/08bourdieu ) (about 6 short pages).
April 1 Papers due.
April
2 Joshua
Barker, “State of
Stoler, Ann. "Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule." Comparative studies in society and history 31.1 (1989):134-161.
http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/44768
Also: be
finished viewing “Shadow Play” DVD in the library.
April 9 Foucault “The Subject and Power” (Power: 326-48); “Preface to Anti-Oedipus” (Power: 106-10); “Confronting Governments: Human Rights” (Power: 474-5).
April. 17 12
pm-3 pm
Room: SE2105 C. Final exam. Cumulative.
(to be) On Reserve at UTM library: “Shadow Play: