Fall 2025 - GSWS 830 G100

Selected Topics Graduate Seminar I (5)

44-Global Approaches to Indigenous Feminism

Class Number: 7414

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 3 – Dec 2, 2025: Thu, 4:30–8:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Selected Topics

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/graduate/courses/goals

Grading

  • Participation: 10%
  • In class writing portfolio: 40%
  • Group discussion facilitation: 20%
  • Group Knowledge Synthesis: 30%

NOTES:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here:
http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

All weekly readings will be made available through the SFU library. Students will not be required to buy any textbooks.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

At SFU, you are expected to act honestly and responsibly in all your academic work. Cheating, plagiarism, or any other form of academic dishonesty harms your own learning, undermines the efforts of your classmates who pursue their studies honestly, and goes against the core values of the university.

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RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.