This version of the syllabus is preliminary, the final version will be circulated during the kickoff class and updated here afterwards

Seminars schedule:

Week 1 – kickoff class

· Introduction

· Organization

· Assignments

Week 2 – Eurocentrism, US-centrism and Androcentrism, an Epistemological Critique

· Sayed Farid Alatas and Vioneeta Sinha, “Introduction: Eurocentrism, Androcentrism And Sociological Theory”, in Sociological Theory Beyond The Canon, (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017), 1 - 16.

· Sandra Harding, “Gender, Modernity, Knowledge: Postcolonial Standpoints”, in Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, And Epistemologies, (Indiana University Press, 1998), 105 - 123.

Week 3 – Classist, Sexist and Racist History of Contemporary Thought

· Angela Davis, “Chapters 1 - 3”, in Women, Race, & Class, (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011), 3 - 69.

Week 4 – Gender as a class

· Kate Bornstein – On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Week 5 – Global Inequality and World Economy

· Raquel Sosa Elizaga, “Chapter 1: Introduction”, in Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Raquel Sosa Elizaga, 1st ed., (SAGE Publications, 2018), 1 - 14.

· Ari Sitas, “Chapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View From The South”, in Facing An Unequal World: Challenges For Global Sociology, Raquel Sosa Elizaga, 1st ed., (SAGE Publications, 2018), 27 - 41.

Week 6 – Poverty Capitalism

· Anayana Roy, “Global Order: Circuits of Capital and Truth”, in Poverty Capital: Microfinance and The Making of Development, (Routledge, 2010), 41 - 88.

· Anayana Roy, “Subprime Markets: Making Poverty Capital”, in Poverty Capital: Microfinance and The Making of Development, (Routledge, 2010), 187 - 221.

Week 7 – reading week

Week 8 – Gender in post-soviet world

· Zdravomyslova, Elena, and Anna Temkina. “Gendered Citizenship in Soviet and Post-Soviet Societies.” In Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe, (Manchester University Press, 2005), 96–113.

· Zdravomyslova, Elena. “Overview of the Feminist Movement in Contemporary Russia.” Diogenes 49, no. 194 (June 2002): 35–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/039219210204919406.

Week 9 – Chinese Capitalism

· Ching Kwan Lee, “The Unmaking Of The Chinese Working Class In The Northeastern Rustbelt”, in Working In China: Ethnographies Of Labor And Workplace Transformation, Ching Kwan Lee, (Routledge, 2006), 15 - 36.

· Ching Kwan Lee, “Unnatural Capital: Chinese State Investment And Its Travails In Africa”, in The Specter Of Global China: Politics, Labor, And Foreign Investment In Africa, (University of Chicago Press, 2018), 1 - 30.

Week 10 – Muslim feminism and concepts of womanhood

· Mernissi, Fatima, “A Tradition Of Misogyny; The Hijab, The Veil”, in The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Women's Rights In Islam, Mernissi, Fatima, (Basic Books, 1992), 49 - 101.

· Maybe another scholar with a really short article?

Week 11 – South America’s regimes

Week 13 – the war on terror