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Patrick Lynn Rivers

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Education: AB, Rollins, Winter Park, FL; MA and PhD, North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Concurrent Position: co-director, a.field (www.afield.ca). Books: Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa; Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics (in press). Articles: Studies in Law, Politics and Society; Critical Studies in Media Communication; M/C Journal; Journal of Film and Video; South African Law Journal; ImageText; Australasian Journal of American Studies; Critical Arts; Darkmatter; African Identities; Space and Culture; Bulletin FrancoPaix; Briarpatch; Interventions; Journal of Curriculum Studies; Borderlands Journal; Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Book Chapters: Penser creer l'urbain; Literacies, Literature and Learning: Reading Classrooms Differently; In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism. Commentary: Art Talk Chicago; The Star (Toronto); Winnipeg Free Press; The Star (Johannesburg); New City (Chicago); Daily Voice (Cape Town). Reviews: Church History; Law & Politics. Entry: "Encyclopedia of American Studies." Awards: Postdocs, University of Chicago and University of Minnesota (declined); Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant; Connaught Fund Grant; SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant.

Courses

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Description

Topics in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences are topical courses that involve dialog between various social science disciplines including anthropology, geography, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, and beyond. Emphasis is placed on ruptures and cross-fertilizations among the various academic disciplines.

Class Number

2245

Credits

3

Description

The course is a general introduction to politics in the United States, closely examining several current policy debates. Significant attention is given to the ways that the critical engagement and intervention of artists, writers, and other creators contribute to and shape these debates. Topics include but are not confined to Iraq and the politics of war, globalization and economic change, immigration 'reform,' global warming and environmental politics, cultural policymaking.

Class Number

1811

Credits

3

Description

This introductory course is used to historicize globalization as well as to understand its contemporary dimensions. Emphasis is placed upon analyzing the rationales underlying globalization, the emergence of institutions making globalization possible, manifestations of globalization in culture (especially art and popular culture), and resistance to globalization as shaped by race, nation, gender, class, and their intersections. Possible authors and texts include Saskia Sassen, Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects; Anita Chan, et. al., Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization; Ann Marie Stock, On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking During Times of Transition; Valentine Moghadam, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks; and McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto.

Class Number

1821

Credits

3

Description

This is an introductory course surveying themes in international politics. Possible themes include: theories of international relations, human rights, globalization, environmental concerns, defense and national security, international organizations and trade. Possible readings include: Kegley, World Politics: Trend and Transformation (2010); Hernandez-Truyol and Powell, Just Trade: A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights (2009); Giddens, The Politics of Climate Change (2009); Sylvester, War, Feminism & International Relations (2010); Lisk, Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Responding to an International Crisis (2009).

Class Number

2251

Credits

3