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GS40120

Academic Year 2024/2025

Decoloniality and Intersectionality Thinking (GS40120)

Subject:
Gender Studies
College:
Social Sciences & Law
School:
Soc Pol, Soc Wrk & Soc Justice
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Dr Krisna Ruette-Orihuela
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Develop theoretically informed understandings on the concepts of coloniality of power, gender, knowledge and being

Appraise the contributions of decolonial and intersectional thinking for social justice

Critically analyse different decolonial feminists’ projects and their alternative pathways for social change

Review the challenges and possibilities of decolonial and intersectional thinking

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Autonomous Student Learning

100

Lectures

24

Total

124


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, activities and class discussion.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Leading Discussion and Critical essay (30%) (1500- 2000 words) Week 8 Graded No
30
No
Individual Project: Research report (70%) on decolonial and/or intersectional projects (3000 -3500 words) Week 14, Week 15 Graded Yes
70
Yes

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Orla Kelly Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Assoc Professor Aideen Quilty Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Professor Aisling Swaine Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Dorota Szelewa Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Ernesto Vasquez Del Aguila Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Thurs 14:00 - 15:50