Browse Hierarchy POLM106: Confronting Violence: Anticolonial Feminist and Queer Approaches

The module introduces students to the study of violence from an anticolonial, feminist and queer perspective in the twenty-first century. Rather than take a case study approach, the module equips students with the necessary analytical, epistemic and ethical tools to understand the complexities of confronting and researching violence with themes such as debility/disability; ecocide and urbicide; femicide and anti-gender violence; extraction and racial capitalism; militarisation and occupation; epistemic violence; coloniality and technology, among others. In addressing these themes, the module will highlight the connections and query the neat distinctions between the global/international and the everyday through a feminist and gender perspective. Students will learn what it means to see the world through anticolonial, feminist and queer perspectives, enabling them to engage with pressing issues in global political in creative and ethical ways.