Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Examines security issues and events with attention to gender. Focuses on themes related to war, political violence, post-war reconstruction, militarism, military culture, and peace activism with attention to women and marginalised communities, gender norms, and feminist and queer approaches to rethinking security and imagining peace.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course examines security issues and events with attention to gender, including examining ways that individuals experience security and insecurity differently, depending on their gender; engaging with feminist and queer theory challenges to ‘traditional’ definitions and understandings of war, security, and insecurity; and centring sources of insecurity that largely impact women, transgender, and racialized communities. The unit covers themes related to war, political violence, the women peace and security UN agenda, post-war reconstruction, militarism, military culture, and peace activism.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

The learning goals of the course are:

• to gain knowledge of feminist and queer theories of security, war, and peace;
• to explore a range of definitions and theories of security and relate these to ‘real world’ security events and wars;
• to consider how vulnerable populations might experience war and security differently;
• to consider innovative alternative and solutions to pressing global issues related to gender, security and development;
• to engage with scholarship that crosses several disciplines, including international relations, security studies, gender studies, and Indigenous studies.

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

REQUIRED READING NOTES: