GSFS 386 - Nightlife: Place, Identity and Feeling Alive

FC SSCI

4 credits
What does it mean to feel truly alive only at certain times and places? In this course, we consider the geographic places and cultural practices of nightlife. We will explore the ways nightlifes risks and rewards are produced, distributed, and regulated to understand their seeming paradoxes: the same physical location can be hedonistic and someones daily grind, carnivalesque and tightly scripted, liminal and big business, criminal and completely quotidian. Nightlife shapes our identities and reproduces social inequalities, but these fleeting experiences also circumscribe the places we spend most of our timework and home. Fieldtrips required.
This course is cross-listed with SOCI 386