GNDS 330
Gender and the Global South
Fall 2025
Topics
- Gender
- Development
- Colonialism
- Violence
- Food security
- Climate change
- Feminism
Readings
- Required: Selected readings on onQ
- Required: Patel, S. (2010). Migritude. New York: Kaya Press.
- Required: Understand the history behind the emergence of the terminology, “Global South”, and situate themselves in the debate surrounding its use and usefulness.
- Required: Apply decolonial and postcolonial frameworks to evaluate various discourses about the Global South.
- Required: Describe and interrogate the global poliDcal and economic processes that have shaped the Global South.
- Required: Explain and analyse different epistemological posiDons that destabilize narraDves that (re)produce dominant ideas about gender and the Global South.
- Required: Individual Project: 40%
- Required: Geographies of resistance
- Required: Knowledge producDon and representaDon • AffecDve and sexual commodificaDon • Profit, gender and queer value • PoliDcs of war and death.
- Required: ReproducDve care work and globalizaDon
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus / course outline ↗Fall 2025
- Additional readings or course notes are supplied through the course platform; individual titles may not be public.