Term 1
GRSJ_V 501-201
Title: Issues in Decolonizing and Feminist Methodologies
Instructor: Dr. Jemima Pierre
Description: This seminar is centrally concerned with the ethics and politics of knowledge production in a world structured through gendered white supremacist, imperialist, and capitalist power. How do we trace the intimacies of the relationships among places, peoples, ecologies, and economies of the modern world? How do we engage in historical recognition and bear witness to this history of violence and dispossession – but also of transformative forms of resistance? How do we reconcile the colonial production of economies, states, and cultures with the ongoing “postcolonial” othering and dispossession of people? What are ethical modes of intellectual inquiry? As a course on methods, our objectives are: 1) to explore the ways that methods are informed by epistemologies which are, in turn, shaped by history, politics, and ethics; 2) to understand how radical scholars have come to devise their research questions and modes of analysis, and why these are important not only for humanistic and scientific inquiry, but also for liberation.
Required for first year MA and PhD students.