Instructor: Dr. Alifa Bandali
Investigation of historical and contemporary scholarship on the diversity of families, focusing on differences of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class within and across national borders. Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.
Description: This course thinks with some of the theories and realities of gender, sexuality, race and class relations as they relate to the family, nation and state. Threaded through our course will be understandings of belonging. We will ask: who is able to belong, and what does family, nation and state have to do with it? We will examine contributions made by feminist, anti-colonial, anti-racist and LGBTQ2SIA+ scholars to challenge normative ideologies and research that re-iterate neoliberal, settler colonial, cis-gendered, heteronormative and racialized understandings that have informed dominant conceptions of family, nation and home to name a few.