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This module discusses key topics in Critical Race Theory and Transnational Feminism to examine how race, sex, gender, sexuality and class, are socially constructed yet real and reproduced through a range of interlocking material, discursive, and relational practices.

Drawing on an intersectional approach the module will critically discuss how these practices produce and reproduce recurring patterns of social inequality, how their interplay is deeply embedded in legal, political and cultural structures and formative bodies and minds, and how they form an instrinsic part of the structuring logic of neoliberal globalization and uneven capital accumulation.

The aims of this module are:

• To provide students with global and intersectional understandings of how gender and sexuality are shaped by different positionalities and identities, such as race, class, nationality, religion, and dis/ability.


• To foster an understanding of how gender, race, and class are conditioned by larger structural and historical forces, including slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy.


• To explore how race, class, and gender are at work in key “geographies” of everyday life.


• To support students’ engagement with decolonial and anti-racist feminist research.


• To facilitate students’ ability to practice feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist politics.


• To introduce students to feminist and critical race theory methodologies.

By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:

1. Understanding of how gender and sexuality intersect with formations of class and race in the context of neoliberal economies and global landscapes.


2. Familiarity with the differing meanings attached to gender and sexuality according to discrepant racial and classed positionalities.


3. A thorough understanding of how gender, race, and class-based oppression operate through key sites of daily life.


4. Awareness of feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist politics of resistance.


5. Ability to deploy a feminist and intersectional perspective on scenes of everyday life and politics.


6. Knowledge of key methods such as narrative analysis, ethnographic observation, counter storytelling, and artistic theory as part of feminist and critical race theory methodologies.

This module will also look at theories and cases from the global south and the global north as well as from the so-called peripheries of Europe to develop a better understanding of how experiences and structures of social injustice are deeply intertwined with the socio-historical matter and routines of specific sites and contexts. And we will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of critical responses to the intersection of power structures, such as feminist epistemologies, intimacies, global solidarities and alternative forms of organisation.

The module also includes a mid-term ethnographic field trip to a public site on which we will examine the interplay of race, class and gender in everyday practices.

• Race, Gender, Class: Intersectionality and Neoliberal Lives.


• The Law.


• The Home.


• The Workplace.


• The Body - Field Trip to a Museum (e.g. The Vagina Museum in London).


• Thresholds, Wakes and Borderlands.


• Riotous Intimacies and 'Going-on-Being'.


• The Commons.


• The Collage.

This module will be delivered via:

• One 2-hour seminar per week.
• One ethnographic field trip.

Seminars are broadly divided into three sections: a general introduction by the lecturer, a presentation of the paper/s by the student/s, followed by a group discussion.