Gender, Work and Space

Content

The seminar course GEO432.1 "Gender, Work and Space" invites students to engage in a critical debate around the inequalities encountered in today's cities. The course draws on a rich body of literature which includes feminist geography, deconstructing established binaries and categories, and Black and anti-racist scholarship. It discusses critiques of neoliberalism, capitalism and low-wage labour. Furthermore, it includes a guest lecture at the end of the semester.

Transferring the theoretical debates to practice, we have two excursions, one at the beginning of the semester. And a second one is part of the exercise course GEO432.2. During this exercise course, students work in teams of three and develop an excursion module in which the discussed phenomena can be experienced in the city of Zurich. The individual modules are then assembled for a two-day excursion, which takes place in December.