SLGY 3327

(3 Credits) 3 Lecture hours This course examines power as a central framework for understanding political life in a global context. It analyzes how colonialism, capitalism, and gender shape the formation of states as institutions of coercion, regulation, and redistribution that classify and stratify subjects. Students will explore how people respond to and contest state actions, and consider the emergence, transformation, and uncertain futures of state power and political order.