Postcolonial Transitions: On Coloniality and Racialization

Course goals

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• critically analyze and compare postcolonial, anti-colonial and/or decolonial approaches to global justice and explain their manifestations in practice
• situate the aforementioned approaches as transitions in socio-historical and eco-historical conditions
• co-design the different aspects of a research-based output
• present and discuss conclusions and the knowledge and arguments behind them
• present critical theorization in oral and written form

Content

This course is for students in the MA Gender Studies, GEMMA, MA Applied Musicology, MA Arts and Society and MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy; students from other MA programmes should check with the course coordinator before enrolling. Only this way participation can be granted. The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.

In the context of rising fundamentalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, marginalization and polarization, this MA course aims to provide a space for critical engagement with postcolonial, anti-colonial and decolonial theoretical debates which address global justice and collective liberation. The course will illustrate and analyze the “postcolonial condition” we live in, through the close reading of texts and images, contextualized through global and local political debates. It will, in particular, address the ‘transitions’ of postcolonial theory with decolonial approaches with close reflection on debates within both fields. Themes that will be addressed during the course include,  subjectivity and representation, gender and sexuality, climate justice and ecology, black studies and abolition studies.