Gender, Work and Space

Allgemeine Beschreibung
 

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. The course also addresses questions about theory-making and offers openings to different ways of knowing beyond dominant systems of knowledge production. 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.

Hinweise

Students of Gender Studies can credit this module as part of "Geschlecht als Erkenntnis- und Forschungsperspektive". (graded, 6 ECTS).

Lernziel

Module participants acquire an in-depth understanding of gender relations, inequalities, and how they play out and intersect in different contexts in the city.
Participants are acquainted with a number of theoretical approaches to gender, work and inequality as key fields of knowledge in geography.
Participants know the didactical tools to develop and lead a high- quality excursion.

Zielgruppen

Master "Humangeographie" and "Allgemeinde Geographie", Master "Gender Studies"

Leistungsnachweis

Half of the mark (1/2) is awarded for the essay on a topic of the seminar, which is written in an exam setting (in 60 minutes) in the last seminar session before Christmas. The other half of the mark evaluates the concept (1/4) and the execution (1/4) of the excursion module.
Language of examination: English