Intersectionality - Feminist Theories in the IR
Institution
Business, Economics, and Social Sciences
Department
Sozialwissenschaften
Teaching staff
Tania Verónica Mancheno Moncada
SDG-topic cluster
Basic needs, Nature conservation and sustainable use of resources, Empowerment, Sustainable infrastructure, cities, and communities, Governance
Comments/contents
Intersectionality is a rather new concept in political theory and in the theorizing of international political relations. Yet, its usages mobilize several feminist perspectives upon politics, which are worth of deeper investigation and comparison. Intersectionality does not only introduces gender, but also "the body" as a field of politics. It operates with notions of the "political-body", "the body of politics" and the "politicized body" as significant political categories for framing several conceptions of human (in)justices and inequality. At the same time, being a concept formulated by decolonial Black women's thinking, intersectionality emphasizes on the different layers of historical, political and epistemological oppressions. The concept thus internationalizes political theory and offers an international and comparative approach to politics.
Learning objectives
Tracing the cartographies of feminist political thinking in and beyond Europe, this course will examine some literary and some tacit uses of the concept at the level of both theory and practice.
Semester
WiSe 18/19
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