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210142 SE M8: Violence and Social Structure: Intersectional Approaches to Gendered Racialization (2025W)
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max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Freitag 17.10. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
- Samstag 08.11. 10:00 - 15:00 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
- Samstag 15.11. 10:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
- Samstag 22.11. 10:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
- Samstag 29.11. 10:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
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Seminar Requirements:
The class is a discussion-based seminar. Students are expected to be prepared based on the assigned reading materials and engaged in active and creative class discussions. Students’ participation will be judged according to the quality (i.e. substance, thoughtfulness, etc.) of their contribution. Additionally, students are expected to be mindful and respectful of the differences of opinion and perspectives that will emerge in class discussions. Part of the course is learning how to articulate arguments and how to disagree (as well as agree) with other perspectives in an open, respectful, and non-confrontational manner.
The final grade will depend upon the following criteria for both oral and written contributions:
1. Active Participation: 70%. Attendance at every class, evidence of thorough and careful reading, and engaged participation in discussions and in class activities
2.Individual reflection paper: 30%. A 2–5-page paper (double spaced) on a course reflection This individual paper is expected to be a reflection on the intellectual work accomplished during the semester.
The class is a discussion-based seminar. Students are expected to be prepared based on the assigned reading materials and engaged in active and creative class discussions. Students’ participation will be judged according to the quality (i.e. substance, thoughtfulness, etc.) of their contribution. Additionally, students are expected to be mindful and respectful of the differences of opinion and perspectives that will emerge in class discussions. Part of the course is learning how to articulate arguments and how to disagree (as well as agree) with other perspectives in an open, respectful, and non-confrontational manner.
The final grade will depend upon the following criteria for both oral and written contributions:
1. Active Participation: 70%. Attendance at every class, evidence of thorough and careful reading, and engaged participation in discussions and in class activities
2.Individual reflection paper: 30%. A 2–5-page paper (double spaced) on a course reflection This individual paper is expected to be a reflection on the intellectual work accomplished during the semester.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The final grade will depend upon the following criteria for both oral and written contributions:
1. Active Participation: 70%. Attendance at every class, evidence of thorough and careful reading, and engaged participation in discussions and in class activities
2.Individual reflection paper: 30%. A 2–5-page paper (double spaced) on a course reflection This individual paper is expected to be a reflection on the intellectual work accomplished during the semester.
1. Active Participation: 70%. Attendance at every class, evidence of thorough and careful reading, and engaged participation in discussions and in class activities
2.Individual reflection paper: 30%. A 2–5-page paper (double spaced) on a course reflection This individual paper is expected to be a reflection on the intellectual work accomplished during the semester.
Prüfungsstoff
1. Active Participation: 70%. Attendance at every class, evidence of thorough and careful reading, and engaged participation in discussions and in class activities
2.Individual reflection paper: 30%. A 2–5-page paper (double spaced) on a course reflection This individual paper is expected to be a reflection on the intellectual work accomplished during the semester.
2.Individual reflection paper: 30%. A 2–5-page paper (double spaced) on a course reflection This individual paper is expected to be a reflection on the intellectual work accomplished during the semester.
Literatur
SA 08.11.2025_10.00-15.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Theme: Gender, Race, Class: Intersectionality as a critical academic inquiry
Readings: Combahee River Collective Statemen https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
Verloo, M. (2013). Intersectional and Cross-Movement Politics and Policies: Reflections on Current Practices and Debates. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38(4), 893–915. https://doi.org/10.1086/669572
Lepinard, E. (2014). Impossible Intersectionality? French Feminists and the Struggle for Inclusion. Politics & Gender, 10(1), 124–130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X13000585
Film: The urgency of intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw |TEDWomen 2016 https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
Activity: Activity: Naming – Problematization (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)SA 15.11.2025_10.00-16.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Theme: Structural and Symbolic Violence
Readings:
Iris Marion Young (2008) Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference https://d-nb.info/1208196243/34
Burawoy, M. (2019). Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12100r4
Ruíz, E. (2024). Structural Violence: The Makings of Settler Colonial Impunity (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197634028.001.0001 (Chapter 1-2)
Film: La Haine ( 1995) French social thriller film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkCbhmH0wi8
Activity: Voicing – Speak Out! (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)SA 22.11.2025_10.00-16.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Gendered and Racialized Capitalism
Readings: Cacho, L. M. (2012). Social death: racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected (1st ed.). New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/9780814723777
Fraser, N. (2016). Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism: A Reply to Michael Dawson. Critical Historical Studies, 3(1), 163–178. https://doi.org/10.1086/685814
Haney, L. A. (2010). Working through Mass Incarceration: Gender and the Politics of Prison Labor from East to West. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 36(1), 73–97. https://doi.org/10.1086/652917
Film: Commercial Surrogacy Exploiting Women of The Developing World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3EodH7lcY
Activity: Activity: Voicing – Speak Out! (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)
SA 29.11.2025_10.00-16.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Theme: Feminist and anti-racist resistance and pedagogy
Readings: Omolade, B. (1993). A Black Feminist Pedagogy. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 21(3/4), 31–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40022003
Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. Routledge.
Joseph-Salisbury, R., & Connelly, L. (2021). Anti-racist scholar-activism (1st ed.). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157973 (Open Access)
Film: Paulo Freire Documentary Seeing Through Paulo's Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jPZe-cZgc
Activity: Voicing and Building Allies (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)
Theme: Gender, Race, Class: Intersectionality as a critical academic inquiry
Readings: Combahee River Collective Statemen https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
Verloo, M. (2013). Intersectional and Cross-Movement Politics and Policies: Reflections on Current Practices and Debates. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38(4), 893–915. https://doi.org/10.1086/669572
Lepinard, E. (2014). Impossible Intersectionality? French Feminists and the Struggle for Inclusion. Politics & Gender, 10(1), 124–130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X13000585
Film: The urgency of intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw |TEDWomen 2016 https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
Activity: Activity: Naming – Problematization (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)SA 15.11.2025_10.00-16.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Theme: Structural and Symbolic Violence
Readings:
Iris Marion Young (2008) Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference https://d-nb.info/1208196243/34
Burawoy, M. (2019). Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12100r4
Ruíz, E. (2024). Structural Violence: The Makings of Settler Colonial Impunity (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197634028.001.0001 (Chapter 1-2)
Film: La Haine ( 1995) French social thriller film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkCbhmH0wi8
Activity: Voicing – Speak Out! (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)SA 22.11.2025_10.00-16.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Gendered and Racialized Capitalism
Readings: Cacho, L. M. (2012). Social death: racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected (1st ed.). New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/9780814723777
Fraser, N. (2016). Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism: A Reply to Michael Dawson. Critical Historical Studies, 3(1), 163–178. https://doi.org/10.1086/685814
Haney, L. A. (2010). Working through Mass Incarceration: Gender and the Politics of Prison Labor from East to West. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 36(1), 73–97. https://doi.org/10.1086/652917
Film: Commercial Surrogacy Exploiting Women of The Developing World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3EodH7lcY
Activity: Activity: Voicing – Speak Out! (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)
SA 29.11.2025_10.00-16.00_Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock (Bestätigt)
Theme: Feminist and anti-racist resistance and pedagogy
Readings: Omolade, B. (1993). A Black Feminist Pedagogy. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 21(3/4), 31–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40022003
Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. Routledge.
Joseph-Salisbury, R., & Connelly, L. (2021). Anti-racist scholar-activism (1st ed.). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157973 (Open Access)
Film: Paulo Freire Documentary Seeing Through Paulo's Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jPZe-cZgc
Activity: Voicing and Building Allies (EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: Training Manual for Adults 2005)
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Do 06.11.2025 12:46
MA level Course
Course Goals
This course aims to critically examine the intersection of violence and social structures through the lens of gendered racialization. We will explore how systems of power—such as capitalism, patriarchy, and nationalism—intersect to produce different forms of structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence. The course is grounded in an intersectional feminist and anti-racist framework, with particular attention to how marginalized groups—including racialized women, Roma communities, migrants, and queer subjects—experience and resist these structures.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
• Engage in critical and intersectional analysis of social structures and violence.
• Understand and explain the mechanisms of gendered racialization within neoliberal capitalism.
• Develop informed critiques of development, criminalization, and state violence.
• Synthesize interdisciplinary readings and apply them to contemporary contexts.
• Contribute thoughtfully to scholarly debates through writing and discussion.
Course Contents
The course is organized thematically, starting with conceptual foundations in intersectionality, structural violence, and racial neoliberalism. We then analyze how these frameworks apply to:
• The racialized and gendered labor market
• The politics of criminalization and incarceration
• Development and humanitarian regimes
• Femonationalism and state feminism
• Social reproduction and care economies
• Anti-racist and feminist resistance movements
Case studies include the European Roma, Black feminist mobilizations, migrant women's activism, and feminist critiques of carceral logics. Readings are interdisciplinary, drawing from feminist theory, critical race studies, political economy, and ethnographic work.
Methods
This graduate seminar combines short lectures, structured discussions, group work, and student-led presentations. Each session will begin with a framing lecture, followed by critical discussion of assigned texts. The class emphasizes collective learning and respectful dialogue across perspectives. Visual media, guest speakers, and activist materials will complement textual readings to support multi-modal learning and critical engagement.Class Format-Methods
This is a discussion-based course that encourages active student engagement. Each session includes a short lecture introducing the theme, followed by seminar-style discussion based on assigned readings. Teaching methods will include group activities, media and case studies analysis, role-play, etc.