Postcolonial Studies in Gender Perspective

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  The course showcases postcolonial studies as a discipline within literary theory and cultural studies in the scope of which it developed, as well as within critical the analyses of historical and contemporary power structures, social norms and cultural representations of the so-called globalized world, and international relations. The course sees into cultural and social practices relating to diversity, difference and othering from the positions of the center and the margin, it dissects the concepts of objectification of „the other“ and while employing feminist theories and gender as and analytical category it contrasts universalist and relativist thought. Besides the parallels between postcolonial and decolonial theories, the course aims to expose the contribution of feminism to the said modes of thinking.

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• Select topic 1. Colonialism, imperialism, capitalism – definition of key concepts and their intersection with gender studies

  1. Colonialism, imperialism, capitalism – definition of key concepts and their intersection with gender studies
• Select topic 2. The map of the colonial world, overview of the history of colonization

  2. The map of the colonial world, overview of the history of colonization
• Select topic 3. Globalist perspectives of the world order

  3. Globalist perspectives of the world order
• Select topic 4. Orientalism

  4. Orientalism
• Select topic 5. Local modernities

  5. Local modernities
• Select topic 6. Nationalism, nation state

  6. Nationalism, nation state
• Select topic 7. Hybridity, representation of minorities, migration

  7. Hybridity, representation of minorities, migration
• Select topic 8. Feminism and multiculturalism

  8. Feminism and multiculturalism
• Select topic 9. Patriotism, cosmopolitanism, cultural relativism, universalism

  9. Patriotism, cosmopolitanism, cultural relativism, universalism
• Select topic 10. Philosophical and social conceptions of criteria for discrimination

  10. Philosophical and social conceptions of criteria for discrimination
• Select topic 11. Border theory, hybrid, nomadic, posthuman and „in-between“ cultural identities

  11. Border theory, hybrid, nomadic, posthuman and „in-between“ cultural identities
• Select topic 12. Decolonial thought

  12. Decolonial thought
• Select topic 13. Postcolonialism and epistemology

  13. Postcolonialism and epistemology
• Select topic 14. Practical exercise – postcolonial/decolonial analysis of cultural artefacts

  14. Practical exercise – postcolonial/decolonial analysis of cultural artefacts