University Course Planner The University of Adelaide Australia

GEND 3019OL - Gender and Race in a Colonial World III

Career: Undergraduate
Units: 3
Term: 4110
Campus: Online
Contact: Up to 3 hours per week online
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange: Yes
Available for Non-Award Study: Check with School
Pre-Requisite: At least 6 units of Level II undergraduate study
Incompatible: GSSA 2105/EX, GSSA 3004/EX, GEND 2019
Assessment: Quiz, online exercises, research assignment
Syllabus:

This course takes an intersectional and decolonial approach to gender, race, and other intersectional categories, exploring how European colonial ideas and practices created many of our current assumptions about race and gender, and how this thinking continues to influence power structures today. Using Lugones’ concepts of the ‘coloniality of gender’ and ‘heterosexualism’ (among others), we will trace the origins of gender, race and racism in colonial discourses, and look at how they have contributed to contemporary heteronormative gender roles for both colonising and colonised societies. Hearing from Black, Indigenous, ‘Third World Feminist’, ecofeminist and Islamic feminist scholars, we will take a critical look at how colonial thinking creates overlapping binaries between ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’, ‘rational’ and ‘natural’, ‘liberated’ and ‘oppressed’, and how these dualisms work to justify or obscure ongoing inequality and exploitation. We will look into a range of contemporary global issues and contexts where these dynamics still commonly play out, including in nationalism, economic development, feminist campaigns, Indigenous issues, environmental debates, and global ‘gay rights’ campaigns. In recognising colonial ways of thinking, we will also attend to alternatives, looking for more ethical ways to practice cross-cultural solidarity, and encountering anti-colonial visions for a more just and relational world.

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Course Outline

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Critical Dates

Term Last Day to Add Online Census Date Last Day to WNF Last Day to WF
4110 Mon 15/03/2021 Thu 25/03/2021 Fri 07/05/2021 Fri 11/06/2021


Class Details

Enrolment Class: Lecture
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
16212 01OL 50 8 This class does not have any timetabled face-to-face sessions. Please check MyUni or contact your Course Coordinator for details.