Jun 17, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17 [Archived Catalog]

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POLS 4756 - The Politics of Visibility


Vision and visibility are key organizing features of political inquiry, responsibility, governability, and contestation. Particularly in a contemporary setting inundated with technologies for seeing and rendering a wide variety of subjects and phenomena visible, power and visibility have become intrinsically interconnected. Studies the various manifestations of vision, visibility, and invisibility. Racialized politics of visibility especially emphasized, along with the multifaceted ways that visible identities more generally render some bodies and subjects more susceptible to political surveillance, social control, and discrimination.

Requisites: 6 Hours in AAS or 6 hours in POLS or 6 hours in WGS
Credit Hours: 3.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I



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