GS40120

This module examines contemporary theories, approaches, and dialogues on decoloniality and intersectionality. Students will learn about the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being as they critically analyze the relationship between colonialism, modernity, imperialism, gender, sexuality and racialisation. The module will focus on the coloniality of gender and how it informs multiple dialogues across Black, African, indigenous, Chicanx, Dalit, Islamic, and communitarian feminist approaches.

Learners will examine different decolonial projects aiming to delink from modern Euro-centric, colonial, gendered, racialised and heteronormative forms of power and knowledge. Students will learn how decolonial feminisms create alternative understandings for challenging patriarchal structures, settler colonialism, racial capitalism, climate change, among other global forces of oppression. Attention will be given to multi-scalar embodied experiences, collective mobilizations, coalition projects and alternative forms of thinking, sensing, believing and living.