Summer course: Race and Gender Perspectives on Citizenship: Democracy and Globalization

This course interrogates the relevance of gender, race, sexuality, and other important cultural categories on key political issues. It understands social identities as produced out of many of the political/social processes the course examines, such as citizenship, nationalism, social policy, and so forth. One line of inquiry of the course will be to analyze the way such political processes produce social identities and social hierarchies. Additionally, the course examines the ways in which such political processes draw upon various ideologies to create differential levels of political inclusion and rights and to naturalize what are at core contingent political arrangements (such as the nation for instance). The course will draw on an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical literature and case studies relevant to the course topics.

Course Director:
Allaine Cerwonka, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty: Mary E. Hawkesworth, Rutgers University, Department of Gender Studies, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, New Jersey; Kristen Hill Maher, San Diego State University, Political Science Department, San Diego; Almira Ousmanova, Faculty of Social Sciences, European Humanities University Vilnius; Gail Andrea Lewis, Reader in Identities, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes