Instructor: Dr. Litsa Chatzivasileiou
Critical examination and practical applications of concepts, theories, methods, and strategies of gender-aware organizing at the community and international levels. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.
Term 2
Description: Critical examination and practical applications of concepts, theories, methods, and strategies of gender-aware organizing at the community and international levels.
This course explores social movement building based on anti-oppression values, anti-authoritarian and anti-state practices and anti-colonial, anti-racist principles of community and transnational organizing centred particularly around the issues of border imperialism, migrant justice, settler colonialism and carceral oppression. Through an array of readings by activists and scholars in Critical Resistance Studies, Critical Refugee Studies, Critical Race Studies, and Abolitionist Feminism, including case studies, political art such as graphic novel/activist journalism, and film we will be rethinking protest, resistance, survival, and political mobilization. We will also examine forms of decolonizing social relations and ourselves as activists through the principles of “revolutionary love” and transformative justice, or of what community organizer, Harsha Walia refers to as “emotional, healing justice” to address personal, collective, and systemic traumas as the cornerstone of community care.