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Overview and critical discussion of the research approach intersectionality.
[Learning outcome: Students are able to assess central theoreties of women's and gender studies and can differentiate between central issues of gender studies. They have knowledge about social movement research (keyword: women's movements) as well as about the connection of gender studies to other disciplines in the humanities, like cultural studies, social sciences and economics. They are able to define the meaning of gender as a fundamental structural category in social contexts].

Language of instruction and discussion is English. The course is meant to encourage students to practice reading and discussing academic texts in English even if English is not their first language.

The seminar provides an overview of research on gender, borders, and migration. We will discuss different theoretical approaches in order to then test them on questions of migration history and historical sources from the 19th and 20th centuries.

As part of the class, we will visit the Migration Archive Tirol (Dokumentationsarchivs Migration Tirol, DAM).

Discussion of theoretical and methodological texts, moderation of text discussions by students, reading and presentation of a monograph for a book club as well as written review on this book.

Attendance, continuous participation and active participation in discussion, moderating a discussion.
End of the semester: 1) review as wel as 2) essay/blogpost or oral exam (by agreement).

Achiume, E. Tendayi: Racial Borders, in: The Georgetown Law Journal 110 (2022) 3, 445-508.

Diaz, Delphine / Aprile, Sylvie (Hg.): Banished. Traveling the Roads of Exile in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Berlin, Boston 2022.

Harders, Levke / Schnicke, Falko: Practices of Borders and Belonging: Historical Perspectives, in: Harders, Levke / Schnicke, Falko (Hg.): Belonging across Borders: Transnational Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford, New York 2022, 1-29.

Tudor, Alyosxa / Ticktin, Miriam: Sexuality and Borders in Right Wing Times: A Conversation, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies 44 (2021) 9, 1648-1667.

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for questions concerning the Master's Programme Gender, Culture and Social Change please contact the coordinator: gender-studies@uibk.ac.at