Jason Rodriguez Home  Directory Jason Rodriguez
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Graduate Student |
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Email: |
rigo311@hotmail.com |
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Social Sciences 1, 331 |
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Office Hours: |
Fri 3:15-4:15pm |
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| Education History | |
B.A. Psychology
Texas Wesleyan University
M.A. Anthropology
University of Texas at Arlington |
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ANTH 138 - Political Anthropology
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Translating Bodhgaya: A study of a women's empowerment organization and a welfare school, both of which are funded through relations of contact intelligible to the Indian State as "tourism development." This research takes place in Bodhgaya, the enlightenment site of Prince Siddhartha, located in Bihar, the state popularly understood as the most "lawless," "corrupt," "backward" state in India.
Theoretical Interests:
Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Time/Temporality, Death as (Im)Possibility, The Philosophy of Praxis, Truth Effects, Ontologies of History and the Metaphysics of Capitalism/Globalization, Reproduction of the State through Discourses of Corruption. |
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