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Semester 1

Global and Transnational Feminisms (PLIT10159)

Subject

Politics

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed 4 Politics courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses, and we cannot consider interdisciplinary courses or courses without sufficient Politics/Government/International Relations focus. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

This class will teach students about contemporary feminist protests and politics in global perspective. Focusing on specific sites of struggle including in India, Iran, Egypt, and China, we will learn about forms of anticolonial and anti-authoritarian protest. Attending to the forms of politics that unfold on the streets and online, we will examine how feminist protest challenges charts new directions in theorizing power, social movements, and intimate politics.

Course Description

This is a course that gives students the analytical vocabulary to make sense of feminist movements for sovereignty and justice across the world. Focusing on movements against sexual and gender-based violence and anti-authoritarianism in Iran, India, China, and Egypt, we understand the nature and form of anticolonial resistance, theorize non-Western social movements, and pay attention to new forms of politics that are mediatized, embodied, and intimate. Students will gain an understanding of the complex meanings of feminism in different regional contexts, and study the nature of anticolonial power struggles. **Part 1: Theories of anticolonial power (including readings by Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, Saba Mahmood, and Nivedita Menon). **Part 2: Feminist Movements (including readings by Dilar Dirik, Tahereh Aghdasifar, Poulomi Roychowdhury). **Part 3: Feminist Futures (including readings on transnational feminisms by Millie Thayer, Ashwini Tambe, Anna Storti). **Student Learning Experience via a weekly seminar. At the end of the course, students can expect to: be conversant in different genealogies and lineages of non-Western feminisms; to learn about anticolonial epistemologies of power; to historicize current feminist movements against longer histories of Empire and authoritarianism; to write about current feminisms for public audiences via website entries on our collectively created public blog; to develop academic essay writing skills while working on a full-length final essay examining a feminist movement of the student's choice.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 85%, Practical Exam 15%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a Politics exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one Politics course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second Politics course will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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