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Susan F. Harding Home  Directory Susan F. Harding
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Title: |
Professor of Anthropology |
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Email: |
hard@ucsc.edu |
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Phone: |
(831) 459-2240 Office |
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Office: |
Social Sciences 1, 347 |
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By appointment |
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| Education History | |
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B.A., M.A., Ph. D., University of Michigan |
| Research Focus | |
Teaching Specialties: Narrative and rhetoric, social movements, state formation, millennialism, born-again Christianity, American culture, religion.
Area of Research: Rural political economy and culture; religious and political communities and discourses.
Area of Fieldwork: Village Spain and American churches. |
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Susan Harding's training and early work were grounded in political-economic, historical, and symbolic approaches to culture and focused on how social relations and cultural identities are transformed. In Spain, she reconstructed how villagers, as they responded to agrarian reforms under Franco, refashioned their peasant and preindustrial capitalist way of life into a form of industrial and consumer capitalism. This became part of a broader inquiry into modern statemaking and cultural politics. Thinking of the "state" as an arena in which social factions construct, articulate, and contest cultural meanings, identities, and hegemony, she studied millennial movements and the American civil rights, feminist, and profamily movements. In 2000, she published a study of the cultural movement that swept through many conservative Christian communities during the 1980s and 1990s, converting them from a marginal, anti-worldly, separatist people into a visible and vocal public force. She is curently writing a book on figures, texts, media events, movements, organizations, and other practices that are revoicing "the religious right" and socially conservative Christianity, creating alien speaking positions inside their discourses, and swerving and redirecting them to other ends. She is also researching, writing about, and participating in local movements to remake "retirement" and "aging" in America. |
| Selected Publications | |
Histories of the Future (edited with Daniel Rosenberg). Duke University Press, 2005.
The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics, Princeton University Press, 2000.
Remaking Ibieca: Rural Life in Aragon under Franco. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Statemaking and Social Movements: Essays in History and Theory (edited with C. Bright). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984. |
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