Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Reims campus
Course Title:
Walking in the city : les flâneuses
Course Number:
DHUM 27A27
Course Description:
This class focuses on the French art of “flânerie,” or the act of strolling aimlessly through the city from the late nineteen century to present. Exploring the intersection between the city walker and the urban environments that he or she navigates on foot, this class will provide a unique perspective on the role of public space in the construction of urban modernity in France and political and social emancipation. This class adopts an explicitly class-, race-, and gender-critical approach to the study of “flânerie”—an able-bodied practice that has traditionally been associated with a certain “Baudelairean” archetype of bourgeois masculinity—asking: Who has the right to linger and be seen in public space? Which are the responses feminism could give to the question posed by flânerie? How does the act of strolling aimlessly through the city intersect with other forms of societal privilege, such as gender, class and racial privilege?
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 414, GOVT 398
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