Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A specific theme within the field of gender, sexuality, and women's studies, not otherwise covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses, will be dealt with as occasion and demand warrant.

COURSE DETAILS:

How can we bring together conversations about Indigenous feminisms from across Asia and Africa as well as Australia, Europe, and the Americas? How can we build a transnational comparative approach to Indigenous feminisms between the Americas and elsewhere to decenter the Western hemisphere in our thinking? What happens when we centre Indigenous knowledges, theories, methodologies, stories, and practices? How can we understand world politics, economies, histories and peoples differently if our stories depicted Indigenous peoples as actors, knowers, and producers of theory and knowledge? What is the relationship between Indigenous feminisms and other feminisms? This course invites students to develop a foundational understanding of Indigeneity, gender, and relationality as it intertwines with race, class, colonialism, imperialism, and other aspects of power. To do this, we will explore the rich landscape of Indigenous feminisms, and Indigenous feminist theories and methodologies. We will also examine the global connections between race, patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. In keeping with Indigenous feminist praxis, we will also look at Indigenous women’s resistance all around the world to think about what Indigenous feminist futures look like.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: https://www.sfu.ca/gsws/undergraduate/courses/goals

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