Social Justice Research Practice: Feminist, Decolonial, Queer, Crip, and Critical Race Methodologies

0.5 credits · Graduate

This course explores anti-oppressive approaches to knowledge production and analysis. The course is designed to support students to develop their own primary or secondary research (thesis, MRP or otherwise) through a lens of feminist, decolonial, queer, crip, and/or critical race epistemologies and methodologies. Core questions include: How has research been used as a tool for social change? How can research be designed to reveal or obscure systems of power and inequality? How can research resist the erasure of some knowledges within academia, and why is it important to raise critical questions about what knowledges are deemed credible? How do we work toward accountability and remain critical of existing relations of power as anti-oppressive researchers in uncertain times? This course can be taken as an elective or as the foundation for Trent's Collaborative Graduate Specialization in Gender and Social Justice (previously Feminist and Gender Studies).