The course deploys a Post-Three-World cartography and problematizes the hegemonic narrative that posits the transnational paradigm along the binary axis of “Western” and “Third World” feminism. It explores how transnational perspectives encompass concepts and debates in feminist theorizing and activism, in a wide range of historical, cultural, social and geopolitical contexts. The course focuses on local, national and global movements, as well as national and international governmental institutions and organisations. Specific topics include: feminist theories of globalization and transnationalism; postcolonial/ decolonial critique and postsocialism; theorizing from feminist borderlands; geopolitics, gender and sexuality; neoliberalism, NGOization and global governance.

Course coordinator: Teresa Kulawik, Professor in Gender Studies at Södertörn University

Teachers:
Teresa Kulawik, PhD from the Free University in Berlin. Specialist in Comparative gender studies; in current research she explores intersections of body/bio-politics, citizenship, knowledge regimes; borderlands of post/decolonial and postsocialist scholarship.

Yulia Gradskova, Associate Professor in history working at CBEES and Gender Studies at Södertörn University. Her research includes Soviet and post-Soviet gender history, global women's rights movement during the Cold War and decolonial perspective on Soviet emancipation of ethnic minority women.

Soheyla Yazdanpanah has a PhD in Economic history and is senior lecturer in Gender Studies at Södertörn University. She has taught in Gender and International Relations in several years at Stockholm University. Her research interests include Inequality in working life, globalization, migration and division of labor, with focus on women’s experiences.

Course assessment: The course requires active participation and oral presentations in seminars, a short written assignment after each seminar and a written essay which is presented at a Mini conference at the end of the course.

Teaching format: The course will be taught at a half-time pace online including 7 sessions from 3rd of October.
Language: The course will be taught in English, papers can be submitted in Swedish or English.
Entry requirements: The course is for Ph.D. students. Priority is given to Ph.D. students in gender studies. Basic familiarity with feminist theory is expected.