150064 VO+UE Economy and Society of Southeast Asia: Gender Issues (2008W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Fr 10:15-11:45, Seminarraum Ostasien
Beginn: 10.10.2008
Beginn: 10.10.2008
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
o Group presentation (country reports) 20%
o Empirical paper 40%
o Class participation 20%
o Comments on paper presentations 20%
o Empirical paper 40%
o Class participation 20%
o Comments on paper presentations 20%
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Introduce students to the principal issues in gender and development in Southeast Asia;
Familiarize students with some of the major theoretical perspectives and research approaches for studying gender and development issues;
Hone students' skills in undertaking comparative research on gender issues
Familiarize students with some of the major theoretical perspectives and research approaches for studying gender and development issues;
Hone students' skills in undertaking comparative research on gender issues
Prüfungsstoff
The course will be conducted in English. The lecturer will handle the sessions on research trends and the regional-level gender issues. The students will take charge of the country presentations. An outline of the presentation will be provided, to ensure consistency in the breadth and depth of discussion for each country. The country presentations will use secondary data culled from publications, Web sites, and possibly, the embassies of the countries concerned. However, alternative forms of country presentation (e.g., film showing followed by a discussion) may also be considered.
To provide the students with a venue for honing their skills in conducting research on gender issues, they will be asked to write an empirical paper about a specific aspect of gender and development in the country assigned to them. The papers will be presented in a conference-type forum where discussants (from within the class) will be asked to comment on the paper presentations.
To provide the students with a venue for honing their skills in conducting research on gender issues, they will be asked to write an empirical paper about a specific aspect of gender and development in the country assigned to them. The papers will be presented in a conference-type forum where discussants (from within the class) will be asked to comment on the paper presentations.
Literatur
Ong, Aihwa & Peletz, Michael G., eds. 1995. Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sen, Krisna & Stivens, Maila, eds. 1998. Gender and Power in Affluent Asia. London: Routledge.
Other readings to be included in the syllabus.
Sen, Krisna & Stivens, Maila, eds. 1998. Gender and Power in Affluent Asia. London: Routledge.
Other readings to be included in the syllabus.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
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Letzte Änderung: Fr 31.08.2018 08:51
1. Gender issues in Southeast Asia: Recent research trends
2. Gender, modernization, and globalization in Southeast Asia: A regional perspective - specific issues to be covered will include, among others, labor and migration, identity and sexuality, consumerism and other values
3. Gender and development: Intra-country issues - for each country, attention will be given to gender concerns vis-à-vis education, labor force participation, politics, health, etc.
This course is designed to introduce students to gender issues in Southeast Asia, specifically in relation to the socio-economic changes that have been taking place in the region. Gender, as a concept, has a broad scope, but this course will focus on women and the impact that development has had on their lives and status in society. The socio-economic changes that will be given particular attention are those that are linked with modernization and globalization. Conventionally, the analysis of the dynamics between gender, on the one hand, and modernization and globalization, on the other, fall under the rubric of gender and development studies.
Chow (2002) has noted that "it has only been rather recently that the salience of gender has begun to receive recognition in the literature concerning East Asian development" (p. 2). Moreover, in many of these works, the Southeast Asian countries have been given scant attention, and often only in terms of the adverse consequences of development in and for these countries, particularly exploitation of migrant workers, human trafficking, prostitution, and the multiple burden. Without undermining the importance of these studies, it is well worth pointing out that the impact of development is multi-faceted - it has negative and positive consequences, and their manifestations are not limited to the issues earlier mentioned.
This course approaches the interrelationship between gender and development from a 'holistic' perspective, and endeavors to familiarize students with the various theorizing and empirical analyses that show both the favorable and unfavorable outcomes of the dynamics between gender and development in Southeast Asian countries. In so doing, the course also endeavors to highlight the two-way nature of the dynamics, wherein women are positioned not as passive participants in development processes but as actors actively negotiating their way through the changes taking place in their midst.
The course proceeds from the premise that gender "is a fluid, contingent process characterized by contestation, ambivalence and change" (Ong and Peletz, 1995, p. 1), which cannot be studied in isolation but should be analyzed in conjunction with other concepts such as class and race. Moreover, it looks at both the shared and unique experiences that the different Southeast Asian countries have in relation to modernization and globalization.