Topic and thesis For this essay, I’d like you to draw on the work we’ve read since the Reading Week break to write an essay exploring the relationship between movement and power.

Topic and thesis: For this essay, I’d like you to draw on the work we’ve read since the Reading Week break to write an essay exploring the relationship between movement and power. To keep things focused and give you a head start, I will provide you with a thesis, which is: One of the major ways that power works on and through humans is by directing their movement.
Clarification: By “movement” I mean it in a literal sense, as in the ways people and things move through space, are held in spots, guided in particular directions over others, channeled this way or that, up or down, here and there, organized in their spatial coordinates, or are figured as ‘on the move’ and highly mobile vs. sedentary, stuck, rooted, moored, or held back. Movement refers to the general ways bodies move in space. But movement also has a more figurative and temporal meaning, as signaling something about progress, change, and transformation, a condition of being through time. Any of these leads falls under the rubric of “movement” and the question I am asking you to explore is how power (social, political, economic, etc) intervenes into the lived experience of movement in any of these senses.
Organization: You are more than welcome to just adopt, without modification, the general thesis I provide here, or sharpen it to your liking. However, to help you organize your essays, I am asking you to come up with TWO or THREE thematic subheadings that allow you, in each of the two or three sections of your essay they demarcate, to analytically explore the general topic of your paper and advance (explore, support, prove, convince me of) your overall argument in two or three different ways.
Sources: You are to draw primarily on the sources we have read since the Reading Week break, with the mandatory specification that each sub-section of your paper must draw the bulk of its content from at least two of our ethnographies (the books). Earlier sources and the films we’ve watched can be drawn on for support.