Universität Wien

240115 SE VM3 / VM1 - Post-Colonial Debates and Perspectives on Gender and Development (2025S)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
Mo 02.06. 12:15-13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 10.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 17.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 24.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 31.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 07.04. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 28.04. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 05.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 12.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 19.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 26.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 16.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 23.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Monday 30.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Gender has evolved beyond an analytical category in development studies, becoming a critical tool for public action within development policy discourse. This course aims to provide participants with analytical skills to critically engage with development as both a social and institutional practice and as a gendered discourse. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the growing body of scholarship that critically engages with coloniality, gender, and developmental across various postcolonial contexts.The course begins by exploring how the concept, meaning, and application of gender have shifted within development frameworks, focusing particularly on how coloniality (re)produces or transforms these frameworks across various contexts. Through this course, students will engage with core debates and perspectives on gender, coloniality, and development, with special emphasis on global relations of domination and marginalization. Key theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and current issues will be examined to provide a well-rounded understanding of gendered dynamics in the field of development. Course has four modules.
Learning Objective:
1. Introduce students to critical literature on development, coloniality, decoloniality and gender representation.
2. Examine intersections between feminist and critical development theories and their shared commitment to challenging knowledge hierarchies.
3. Equip students with practical analytical skills for examining the power/knowledge nexus in development processes and practices.
The course is divided into four main modules, with content delivered through a combination of lectures, presentations, case studies, and participatory discussions on relevant topics
1. Gender, Coloniality/ Decoloniality and Development
2. Feminist and Intersectional Critiques of Development
3. Contemporary Issues in Gender and Development
4. Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Gender and Development

Assessment and permitted materials

For a successful completion of the course require:
• Regular class participation and active involvement in class activities
• Reflection on required reading material
• Class presentation
• Final term paper on a specific topic related to the course themes, demonstrating their ability to apply course concepts and theories to real-world issues.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

• Active participation in class (reading and discussion of literature) (20%)
• Case Study Analysis: Students will analyze a case study related to gender policy in development, examining its effectiveness, limitations, and
broader social implications. (30%)
• Final term paper (15 pages) (50%)

Examination topics

Reading list

• Escobar, A. (1995) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, Princeton, N.J, Princeton University Press
• Kabeer, N. (2024). Renegotiating patriarchy: Gender, agency, and the Bangladesh paradox. LSE Press.
• Kapoor, I. (2008). The Postcolonial Politics of Development. Routledge, London: New York
• Mignolo, W.D. and Walsh, C.E. (2018). On Decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis. Duke University Press .Moraña,
• Mohanty, C. T. (2003) Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practising Solidarity, Duke University Press, Durham
• Mukhopadhyay, A. (2016). Feminisms. (ed) by Sumit Chakrabarti Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan
• Mohanty, C. T. (1988). Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist review 30: 61–88
• Spivak, G. (1999) A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Harvard University Press.
• Vergès, F. (2021). A decolonial feminism. Pluto Press

Association in the course directory

VM3/VM8

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