Gender and Social Inclusion, Social Reproduction and Feminist Interventions (2024/2025: Periode 3)

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Cursusdoel

After completion of this courses, students are able to:
A) understand, analyse, evaluate, and apply insights from scholarship on gender and social inclusion and social exclusion;
B) conduct a limited individual research project interpreting new material collected and co-created with one (or more) research-partner(s) involved in a social and political intervention;
C) demonstrate ability to apply critical and independent thinking in political and activist contexts and therefore able to write a 'management summary' or 'policy recommendation' directed at professional and/or activist actors in the field studied;
D) reflect on connections between feminist activism and research projects addressing social inclusion and social exclusion. body { font-size: 9pt;

Vakinhoudelijk

This course is for students in the RMA Gender Studies and GEMMA; students from the RMA programmes Musicology, Philosophy, CLS and MAPS and other RMA programmes should check with the course coordinator before enrolling. Only this way participation can be granted. After approval by the course coordinator, please contact the Student Desk of Humanities for enrollment in this course. The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.

'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in' Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929).

Gender scholars have shown how social inclusion and social exclusion are gendered and how this gendering intersects with other forms of in- and exclusion. In this research seminar, students explore several feminist research traditions that aspire to make a societal difference, theories on social reproduction, feminist participatory action research and oral history, studies on affective, intimate or caring labour. Question guiding the discussion will be: in what ways may gender scholars contribute to social and political feminist interventions (whether via activism, via alternative living or via policy design)? What can critical researchers achieve when working closely with non-academic partners from social and political activism, ngo's, private companies or state institutions?

In this research seminar students will work on these questions by (1) reading, discussing and writing about examples of feminist research about social in- and exclusion, and by (2) writing a research paper based on the interpretation of new material (narratives, memories, lived experiences, information) collected and co-created with one (or more) research-partner(s) involved in a social and political intervention.

The readings will touch on a wide range of topics that might be studied as examples of social in- and exclusion and that are objects of social and political interventions: Family and kinship arrangements, gender based violence, social policies, UN development goals, legal and police interventions, transnational care chains, traditional and alternative health care, employment policies, education, social work, body politics, or equal opportunity policies. This allows for a wide range of topics for research papers. Students are invited to write about cases that are connected with their experiences and/or aspirations in the field of social and political interventions.

Aanvullende informatie

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September.

Career orientation
The seminar explicitly addresses the opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges of integrating scholarly work in social and political practices of feminist interventions. An idea for an activist intervention,'management summary' or 'policy recommendation' aimed at readers or co-creators who can use the findings in their professional or activist contexts is an important component of the final paper.

Werkvormen

Seminar
Toelichting

In class sessions, students discuss and compare scholarly approaches and practice techniques of interviewing and oral history. Short lectures and guest lectures from gender and feminist scholars working in NGOs and activist praxis are also a component of the course.

Bijdrage

Students prepare class discussions in small groups.

Voorbereiding

Students read assigned texts, prepare questions and points for discussion; compose two critical reading reports; and write a paper based on exploratory research with primary sources and new material (e.g. interviews, documents, archives, political statements policy papers) from state (national, international, local) and or non-state (activism, NGOs) actors.

Toetsing

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 1,5

Ability to understand, analyse, evaluate and apply insights from scholarship on gender and social inclusion in an individual research project based on primary material from social and political practices of feminist interventions.

Announced in course syllabus.

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 70% | ECTS 3,5

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • GEMMA: Master degree in Women's and Gender studies
  • Gender Studies (Research)

Voorkennis

Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de verplichte literatuur bekend


Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

L.I. Candidatu l.i.candidatu@uu.nl

Docenten

L.I. Candidatu l.i.candidatu@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 4 november 2024 tot en met vrijdag 22 november 2024

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 20 januari 2025 tot en met dinsdag 21 januari 2025

Inschrijving niet geopend
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