ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Lecture 23Outline of Last LectureI. States, Social Control, and IdentityII. Public and Private SpacesIII. Social Control and the Built EnvironmentIV. Grown in DetroitOutline of Current LectureI. Prologue: Deriving State PowerII. Surveillance, A How To GuideIII. Grown in Detroit: Urban GardeningIV. Getting Ghost: Getting Grown?V.CurrentLectureFrom Identity and Belonging to Culture and TimeI. Prologue: Deriving State Powera. The State as an Idea vs. the State as an Administrative Systemi. State as idea: rarely interact with the idea of the state, mostly we focus on more mundane things, just kind of take for granted what is “controlling” usii. The power to withhold information contributes to the idea of the State asa singular entity (Philip Abrams)1. State has the ability to say no, to put up a street barricade and say don’t look here makes us intrigued and want to look there2. Creates a belief that there is something big and knowledgeable “above us”3. The reason we believe in the state as an idea comes down to this, he argues iii. State as a system: the complexities of bureaucracies, etc. that we actually deal with every dayiv. What does this have to do with Identity and Belonging?v. What features of ourselves and self-identities are derived from our existence as creatures of the state?b. Features of State Systemsi. Fiscal Systems (taxation)ii. JudiciaryThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.iii. Population Controliv. EnforcementII. Surveillance, A How To Guidea. Governance, Power and Authority Revisitedi. In Grown in Detroit: how do you conduct the students’ conduct, how do you get the power to change themii. In Getting Ghost: who has the authority, etc.iii. Observational Controliv. Or, the idea of observational controlIII. Grown in Detroit: Urban Gardeninga. Confronting the challenges of social change at all levelsi. From the perspectives of “experts”1. Teachers: how do we do this, achieve our goals ii. From the perspectives of the teen mom high school students1. What do we do when we go home, etc. b. Our challenge to understand the formation of identity?i. Symmetrical respect for different standpoints – eliminating hierarchical thinking about people who are “experts” vs. people who are learning c. The making of individual identityi. What does it take to gain a better understanding of identity?1. Attention to very particular circumstances and histories, not simply abstract notions like “the State”a. Each person’s experience with the state can be different d. Why does architecture matter?IV. Getting Ghost: Getting Grown?a. Structure of space, often overlap in GGi. Homes (city, black?)1. Familial2. Stable3. Private4. Domesticii. Spots (suburb, non-black?)1. Entrepreneurial2. Fluidity3. Public life4. Commercial enterpriseiii. Drug dealing an attempt at reclaiming identity?iv. Grown in Detroit attempt to re-unite commerce and local
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