Feminist Geographies

3-0-9 units. HASS-S · Undergraduate

Explores diverse approaches to spatial visualization of our physical and social environment, building on political and intellectual traditions in Women's and Gender Studies. Engages debates around transnationalism, development, decoloniality, and public/private space and combines quantitative, qualitative, and creative strategies for producing and circulating knowledge with the capacity to affect social change. Engages historical and emerging tools for data activism grounded at MIT and the broader communities of Boston and Cambridge through workshops, field trips, and activities. Using ArcGIS Online, students create StoryMaps to be compiled as a digital Atlas of Feminist Geographies. Demonstrates how cartography can be used in service of what bell hooks calls the "movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided. Limited to 15.