MLCS 696
Topics in Media and Cultural Studies
Winter 2020 · Special Topics
Topics
- Communal struggle
- Intersectional gender violence
- Authoritarian neoliberalism
- Borders and migration
- Latin American feminism and ecology
Readings
- Tzul Tzul, Gladys. 2018. Rebuilding Communal Life. Ixil women and the desire for life in Guatemala. NACLA – Report on the Americas 50(4): 404–406.
- Tzul Tzul, Gladys (2017): The Continuity of Exploitation in Central America. NACLA – Report on the Americas, 48 (2): 138-140
- Tzul Tzul, Gladys (2016): Communal Strategies for Controlling Microfinance in Chuimeq’ena’ Guatemala. The South Atlantic Quarterly 115 (3): 625-631
- Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. 2012. Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A reflection on the practices and discourses of decolonization. The South Atlantic 111: 95–109.
- Rivera Cusicanqui, S., 2015. Strategic ethnicity, nation, and (neo)colonialism in Latin America. Alternautas, 2(2), pp. 10–20
- Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia (2010): The Notion of “Rights” and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Modernity Indigenous Peoples and Women in Bolivia. qui parle, 18 (2): 29-54
- Ethnography of the Double Bind: A conversation with Aymara Sociologist, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, 8 of October 2018, retrieved th
- Segato, Rita Laura (2016): “Patriarchy from Margin to Center: Discipline, Territoriality, and Cruelty in the Apocalyptic Phase of Capital.“ The South Atlantic Quarterly 115 (3): 615-624
- Galván, Ruth Trinidad (2016): Collective memory of violence of the female brown body: a decolonial feminist public pedagogy engagement with the feminicides
- 03.20 Illiberal State/ Santos de Araújo, Flávia (2018): Marielle, Presente! Meridians & Authoritarian (2018) 17 (1): 207-211. 19.03.20 Neoliberalism Snyder, Cara K. and Cristina Scheibe Wolff (2019): The perfect misogynist storm and the electromagnetic shape of feminism: Weathering Brazil’s Political Crisis. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 20 (8): 87-109
- Cavagnaro, K. and Shenton, J. E. (2019). Territories of Contested Womanhood: Pussyhats, the Pachamama, and Embodying Resistance in the Era of Hashtag Feminism, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 4(1), 04: 1-14
- 03.20 Borders & Flores, Lisa A. (2019): At the Intersections. Feminist Border & Migration Theory. Women’s Studies in Communication, 42 (2): 113-115. 26.03.20 Natalia Villarreal & Meghana V. Nayak (2019) Student meets author: Natalia Villarreal and Sayak Valencia, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21:4
- Ruiz Muriel. Marta Cecilia (2018): Reinforcing National Borders in the Context of Regional Integration: Female Migration and Sexuality in the Andean Subregion. Revista de Estudios Sociales, (64): 42-54
- Wright, Melisa (2011): Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide: Gendered Violence on the Mexico-U.S. Border Author(s): Melissa W. Wright, Signs , 36 (3): 707-73
- Schild, Veronica. 2019. Feminisms, the Environment and Capitalism: On the Necessary Ecological Dimension of a Critical Latin American Feminism. Journal of International Women’s Studies 20(6): 23–44.
Winter 2020
Topics
- Latin American feminisms
- Decolonization
- Body, land, and territory
- Communal struggle
- Gender violence
- Borders
Readings
- Félix de Souza, Natália Maria. “When the Body Speaks (to) the Political.” Contexto Internacional 4(1), 2019, 89–111.
- Gago, Verónica, and Diego Sztulwark. “The Temporality of Social Struggle at the End of the ‘Progressive’ Cycle in Latin America.” South Atlantic Quarterly 115(3), 2016, 606–614.
- Lugones, Maria. “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System.” Hypatia 22(1), 2007, 186–219.
- Paredes, Julieta. Hilando fino desde el feminismo comunitario. Grietas, 2010.
- Hernández Reyes, Castriela Esther. “Black Women’s Struggles against Extractivism, Land Dispossession and Marginalization in Colombia.” Latin American Perspectives 46(2), 2019, 217–234.
- Tzul Tzul, Gladys. “Rebuilding Communal Life.” NACLA 50(4), 2018, 404–406.
- Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. “Ch’ixinakax utxiwa.” South Atlantic 111, 2012, 95–109.
- Segato, Rita Laura. “Patriarchy from Margin to Center.” South Atlantic Quarterly 115(3), 2016, 615–624.
- Flores, Lisa A. “At the Intersections: Feminist Border Theory.” Women’s Studies in Communication 42(2), 2019, 113–115.
- Schild, Veronica. “Feminisms, the Environment and Capitalism.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 20(6), 2019, 23–44.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2020-Winter-LA-ST-499-LECTURE-B1 ↗2020
- 2020-Winter-MLCS-410-LECTURE-B2 ↗2020
- 2020-Winter-MLCS-696-SEMINAR-B1 ↗2020
- MLCS 696 TOPICS IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- MLCS 696 B1 - Latin American Feminisms ↗2020
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- Selected named readings from the dated schedule; full syllabus contains further readings and films.