Universität Wien

240148 SE VM1 / VM7 - Social inequalities and the organisation of social reproduction (2024W)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 17.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Tuesday 22.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG1 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 31.10. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 07.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 14.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 21.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 28.11. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 05.12. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 12.12. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 09.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 16.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 23.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Thursday 30.01. 09:15 - 10:45 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course builds on feminist debates regarding the private-public divide as well as the boundaries between productive and reproductive work that lie at the root of women’s exclusion. We draw from liberal, materialist, postcolonial and intersectional feminist interventions into International Political Economy. The way accumulation and social reproduction are organized vary greatly over time although the brunt of the social reproduction burden falls on women by way of the gendered division of labor.

Currently, there is increasing talk of the crisis or depletion of social reproduction. The study of different cases in the Global North and South will help us to understand the social power relations that underlie certain accumulation strategies and how they relate to gender, family and social policies. How can we understand the resurgence of nationalist discourses propagating conservative family ideals in the context of social reproduction and the control over women’s labor, bodies and sexuality? How are heteronormativity, a dual gender order, familyism and nationalist discourses related to the organization of social reproduction and what insights into social inequalities and their reproduction does an intersectional perspective provide in these cases?

Learning Outcomes:

• Students get to know different theoretical concepts and learn about the contributions of feminist approaches to the field of international political economy.
• Students will learn to apply theory to concrete case studies.
• Students will be able to explain the relationship between local-national-global, private – public, production – reproduction, formal – informal economy and political and economic power from a feminist perspective.

Assessment and permitted materials

Grades:
In order to pass the course and receive grading all of the following requirements have to be fulfilled.

act as discussion leader in two units: 20%

Poster Presentation: 20%

Research Proposal: 10 % The research proposal is due January 5th, 2024 and will be presented and discussed at the end of the course.

Final paper: 50%
The final paper is due March 31st, 2025. The research papers should have a minimum length of 20 pages (6500 words). The final papers are to be uploaded via Turn-it-in.

Permitted aids: academic literature, media reports (if relevant to the topic); not permitted aids: LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

In order to pass the course and receive grading all requirements mentioned above have to be fulfilled.

Benotung (Punkte):
sehr gut: 100-90
gut: 89-80
befriedigend: 79-70
genügend: 69-60
nicht genügend: 59-0.

Examination topics

Reading list

Association in the course directory

VM1 / VM7

Last modified: Fr 11.10.2024 09:26