Identities

The broad goal of this seminar is to raise and explore important questions about identities. It explores how identities are formed, how they evolve over time, what identities do in political economic life or what people do with identities in political economic life. It also examines why some identities are more politically salient than others, and what the epistemological and ethical consequences of various ways of conceptualizing identities are. Readings focus on cases in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.