Examination procedure
Written, oral, seminar presentation
Examination procedure notes
Oral presentations (and only for master students a short 1500-word paper related to these) in which students are invited to apply one or a combination of approaches for applying gender and intersectionality in political analysis to a relevant socio-political phenomenon of their choice (and for PhD students preferably to their PhD topic).
Prerequisites
Open to all PhD and master students
Syllabus
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.
Bibliographical references
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.