This workshop will begin with a presentation that outlines existing anthropological theory on statehood and governmentality in order to interrogate the ways in which Asian bodies are being (and have historically been) Otherized as a means of justifying their control. We will examine the pathologization of Asian immigrants through historic examples and contemporary mediascapes. Students will analyze several case studies of COVID-19 mediascapes as a means of better understanding the relationship between statehood and the citizen-body. 

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a little about Noël:

Noël Um, M.A. is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University and Teachers College studying Anthropology and Education. She is interested in im/migration, mobilities, resettlement education, citizenship, trauma, critical pedagogies and DPRK-ROK relations. Her teaching appointments have been in the Education, Anthropology, and East Asian Studies departments at Columbia, and the International and Transcultural Studies department at Teachers College.