Syllabus
a full course syllabus will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Key literature
GORDON, Avery (2008) [1997] Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.
ISASI-DIAZ Ada M. and Eduardo MENDIETA (eds.) Decolonizing Epistemologies, New York: Fordham University Press.
HARAWAY, Donna (2018) [1997] Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. Second Edition. New York: Routledge
LOVELESS, Natalie (ed) (2020) Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
SUBRAIMANIAM, Banu (2014) Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Further literature
BARAD, Karen (1998) ‘Getting real: Technoscientific practices and the materialisation of reality’, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 10 (2):87-128.
COLLINS, Patricia Hill (2000) [1990] Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Power of Empowerment, Second edition, New York: Routledge.
DICENTA, Mara (2020) Beavers, Settlers and Scientists. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
HARDING, Sandra (Ed.) The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies. New York: Routledge.
KELLER, Evelyn Fox (1985) Reflection on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale University Press.
LIBOIRON, Max (2021) Pollution is Colonialism, Durham: Duke University.
Annotation
This graduate course introduces students to feminist theories of knowledge and the ways in which they propose that researchers situate and account for their research apparatuses, including relations of power and the role of the body and emotions. How does our positionality and research subjects take shape within the processes of research, and how to account for this? What might it mean to decolonize research methodologies and theories of knowledge? How can methods be inventive, artful, and sensitive to the subjugated, inaccessible, and withdrawn? The course discusses established and contemporary feminist texts and case studies that address these enduring questions of power, reflexivity and responsible knowing in practice.
Students are encouraged to examine their own research encounters in this light.