Provisional Outline of Course
Week 1: Introduction: Indigenous feminisms, post/colonial feminisms and the intersections of political struggles
Week 2: Feminism, post/coloniality and the question of sovereignty (Assam)
Week 3: Feminism, terror and security (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Sudan)
Week 4: Feminism, socialism and authoritarianism (China)
Week 5: Feminist engagements with the politics of religion, secularism and border controlWeek 6: Reading Week
Week 7: Feminist movements in a settler colonial context: political prisoners and decolonial methods (Palestine)
Week 8: Feminism, reproduction and land rights in settler colonial states (Australia, US, Canada)
Week 9: Feminism and Revolution (Algeria)
Week 10: Summary workshop/ Time for assessment discussion
Illustrative Bibliography
R. Icaza (2017) 'Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise' in M. Woons & S. Weier (eds.) Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics, E-International Relations Publishing.
Kaul, N. & Zia, A.(2018) ‘Knowing in our Own Ways: Women and Kashmir’, Special Issue EPW/RWS
Osuri, G.(2018) ‘Sovereignty, vulnerability, and a gendered resistance in Indian-occupied Kashmir’, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3(2) 228-43.
Das, N. K. (2019) 'Indigenous Feminism and Women Resistance: Customary Law, Codification Issue and Legal Pluralism in North East India', Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology, 1(2), pp. 19-27.Menon, Nivedita. 2012. "Victims or Agents?" in Seeing like a Feminist. pp. 173-212.
Radha Kumar (1999) 'From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women's Movement'. in N. Menon (ed.), Gender and Politics in India. OUP, pp.342-369.
Fong, M. (2016) One Child: The story of China’s most radical experiment, Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt.
Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl and Dorothy Ko (eds.) (2013) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, Columbia University Press.
Hershatter, G. (2018) Women and China’s Revolutions, Rowman & Littlefield.
Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt (eds.) (2015) Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World, London: Zed.
Nadje Al-Ali & Nicola Pratt (2009) What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Seedat, F.(ed.) (2017) ‘Special Issue: Women, Religion and Security’, Agenda, 30(3).
M.E.M.Kolawole (1997) Womanism and African Consciousness, Africa World Press Inc.
B. Badri & A. M. Tripp (eds.) (2017) Women’s Activism in Africa, London: Zed.
B. Fredericks (1997) ‘Reempowering Ourselves: Australian Aboriginal Women’, Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 35(3).
Green, J. (ed.) (2017) Making Space for Indigenous Feminism(2ndedition), Fernwood Publishing.
R. Aída Hernández Castillo (2010) ‘The Emergence of Indigenous Feminism in Latin America’, Signs, 35(3).