Decoloniality, Feminism, and Human Rights
FGSS 316
Spring 2023 not offered
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Is decolonialism only about flag-burning, taking a knee, and bringing down statues of colonial figures? The course will study anticolonial critiques and theories about historic and current settler colonialism and connect these with the prevailing racial, gendered, and economic imperial order. Key classic texts will be studied about how former imperial powers continue to neocolonize the world through tax havens, as well as by leveraging the concept of human rights and often at the expense of gender rights. Specific case studies will be examined to illustrate the range of activism and global creative protests that widen the paths to a decolonized feminist future. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS FGSS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (FGSS) |
Major Readings:
Lowe, Intimacies of the Four Continents, Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World, Joseph-Gabriel, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire, Lower, Hitler¿s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, Short, Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide, Smith, Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples, and articles by others.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly seminar presentations, Mid-Term Theme Paper, Final Assignment |
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