Instructor: Dr. Litsa Chatzivasileiou
The intersections of gender, education, and work using sociological and economic frameworks. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.
Term 1
Description:
A study of pedagogies of hope based on care, transformative justice and Indigenous teachings
and practices of the gift economy. We will study feminist critical studies of care, radical Black
abolitionist theory, practices of mutual aid and empathy, and global Indigenous cultures that
cultivate anti-capitalist ways of living based on the principles of co-operation, collective care,
community, gift, reciprocity, gratitude and kinship with the more-than-human world. The course
is designed to provide healing and hope based alternatives to the profoundly colonial, white
supremacist, and ecocidal systems forming our current reality.