This course explores methods to understand unequal power relations. Organizers and scholar-activists often “power-map” what people and organizations they can work with (or against) in planning an advocacy campaign. Academics, drawing on traditions in feminist sociology, call researching the ruling relations that structure complex unequal power relations “institutional ethnography” (IE). The course offers an overview of public records requests, archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews, and writing.

You can see a working draft of the syllabus here: https://tinyurl.com/COGR201L