Co-seminar in Anthropology (Full-Term): Homeplaces: The Quest for Dwelling in Critical Times

The seminar focuses on the reciprocal process of people making houses and houses making people. Taking the house as at once a built shelter, a collection of relations and sensoria, and a lively nexus within communities and larger political-economic and ecological regimes, we move across a range of archives, landscapes, and epistemes to ask how lifeworlds and imaginations are made and remade in relation to the quest for dwelling. How does the ethnography of the unhoused and the housed retrain perceptions and detonate abstractions? What comes into view when the praxis of house-ing is the subject of ethnography and critical theory?