The Human Experience I

Course Content

Decolonizing Methodologies
Feminist Theories of Science
29 Topics
Why does it matter?
Charting the Field
Classifications
Feminist Standpoint Theory
Situated Knowledges and Feminist Epistemologies
Feminist New Materialisms
Gendered Practices in Science and Technology Fields
The Laboratory
Fieldwork
Gendering Neuroscience
Science, Domination, and Colonialism
Postcolonial Science Studies
Sex and Gender
Taming Sex
Hormones
Reproductive and Sexual Bodies
The Persistence and Resistance of Binary Sex
Sexualities
Institutionalizing Sex and Gender
Reproductive Technologies
Genetic Engineering and Patenting
Co-Production of Gender/Sex and Race
Thinking Computationally
Cyborgs
The Margins Manifesto Lab: Between Species and Genres
Ecofeminism
Women, Animals, Science, and Social Justice
Gender, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Feminist Praxis
Intersectionality
30 Topics
What is intersectionality?
Intersectionality’s Past and Present
Subjects and Privilege
What are sex, gender, and sexuality?
What is race?
What is class?
Theoretical Foundations of Intersectionality
Critical Legal and Race Studies
Social Epistemology and Social Theory
Critical Social Science and Intersectionality
Intersectionality as Methodology
Researching Intersectionality
Critiques and Alternatives
Bodies and Health
Bodies and Beauty
Families and Schools
Families and Poverty
Families and the State
Work and Organizations
Law
Immigration
Politics and Social Movements
Policy and Advocacy
Group Consciousness and Political Solidarity
Electoral Politics
Political Economy
The Environmental Crisis
Human Rights
Intersectionality as Praxis
Toward an Intersectional Future
World Systems
33 Topics
World-Systems Theory
The Colonial Matrix of Power
Epistemic Disobedience and Border Thinking
Poetics, Processes, and Borderlands
Decolonizing the Imaginary
Border Thinking as Method
Border Work: Geopolitics
The Museum as Border Work
Ubiquitous and Technological Borders
Transnational Spaces
The Production of Culture
Defining Excellence
Cultural Sociology and Cultural Studies
Ideology and Hegemony
Consumption
Fields, Institutional Logic, and Orders of Worth
Tastes, Boundaries, and Stratification
Classifications and Genres
De-Centering the Global North
Sociology of Art and Art Worlds
Work and Creative Industries
Platforms and “Amateur” Cultural Producers
Cross-National Comparisons
Inequalities and Representations
Case Study: Global Cultural Production of Shoes
Performance, Rituals, and Authenticity
Migration, Nationalism, and Identity
Ascriptive and Cultural Representation in Media
Advertising and Marketing as Boundary-Making
Cultural Objects
Historical Research: Public Relations and Environmental Activism
Decolonizing Apparatuses: On Assembling New Research Methods
Imperialism and Research
Colonizing and Decolonizing Knowledge
Positionality, Responsibility, Accountability, and Ethics
Connecting Ethics and Validity
Indigenous Methodologies
Decolonizing Methodologies
Research and Representation
Decolonizing the Academy
PHILOSOPHY AND CRITICAL THEORY
What is critical theory for?
Class Struggle and the Critique of Capitalism
24 Topics
John Locke and the Foundations of Capitalist Political Economy
Property and Alienation
Cities, Towns, and the Mercantile System
The Mercantile System and Colonies, and Competition between Nations
Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
Geneva and Vienna
Keynes and London
Friedman and the Chicago School
Marx on Alienation and Historical Materialism
Introducing the Critique of Political Economy
Concepts and Formulae
Surplus Value and Accumulation
So-Called Primitive Accumulation
Marxist Feminism: Engels’ Critique of the Family
Marxist Feminism
Wages for Housework
The Division of Labor – Intellectual and Manual
Art and Media
Consumption of Commodities and Ideologies
Immiseration
Colonialism and Property
Colonialism and Race
Love in the Time of Burnout
Robots