Courses

This colloquium will examine the historical literature on the public sphere, particularly in Europe, Latin America and the United States.  We will examine uses of the category in studies that deal with intellectual debates, cultural processes, elite and popular politics, and the shifting boundaries of public and private life.  Thus, discussions will stress criticisms of Jurgen Habermas' model from the perspective of gender, non-European societies, popular cultures, and class analysis. Field(s): LA