Gender and intersectionality in political research
Prerequisiti
Open to all PhD and master students
Programma
The course aims at exploring what does it mean to apply gender and intersectionality approaches in political research, how it improves rigor, ethics, and transformative impact of social and political research, and how to apply these theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches to research. It discusses a variety of gender and intersectionality approaches for doing political research (including women, gender, intersectionality, deconstruction, and post-deconstruction) and their respective contributions and limitations. It addresses the challenges and joy of applying gender and intersectionality in social and political research.
Obiettivi formativi
The course aims to familiarize researchers with doing political research from gender and intersectionality perspectives. This includes understanding the contribution of feminist epistemologies and methodologies to the analysis of social and political phenomena and learning to apply gender and intersectionality approaches to socio-political research.
The course will have a seminar format, alternating theory lectures, reading-informed debates, and oral presentations in class. In their presentations (and only for master students a short 1500-word paper related to these), students are invited to apply one or a combination of approaches for applying gender and intersectionality in political analysis to a relevant political phenomenon of their choice (and for PhD students preferably to their PhD topic). Activities in class also include a workshop on critical frame analysis from gender and intersectionality perspectives and the analysis of PhD dissertations that apply feminist approaches to political research to understand why and how they use feminist epistemologies and methodologies.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Ackerly, Brooke and Jacqui True. 2011. Doing Feminist Research in Political & Social Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Berthet, Valentine, Barbara Gaweda, Johanna Kantola, Cherry Miller, Petra Ahrens and Anna Elomäki. 2023. Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments: Experiences and Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hankivsky, Olena and Julia S. Jordan-Zachery eds. 2019. The Palgrave Handbook of intersectionality in public policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo. 2017. Gender and Political Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.