Global Intersections:Gender, Race, Class

What is the relationship between gender, globalisation and identity? How do we analyse the numerous structural forces and categories that shape both personal and collective identity politics? This subject investigates the relationship between globalisation and identity formation. It will focus on how categories of difference—especially gender, race, and class—dynamically connect across a range of contemporary events, such as labour migration, refugees, the climate crisis, religious revivalism, global aid, and international development. Attention will also be paid to social movements that address feminist and decolonial concerns. What insights does an explicitly feminist lens bring to these complex formations and transformations? The subject will introduce students to intersectional and decolonial feminism, a range of perspectives of feminists of colour, and critical race and critical development studies.

• 1Reflect critically on the complexities of current research on global issues and their connection to identity formations
• 2Discuss the major social, political and cultural developments on gender, race, class and sex in the contemporary era
• 3Apply an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values
• 4Apply a feminist lens to a range of intersectional and decolonial perspectives.