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This course deals with the controversially discussed phenomenon of globalization from a gender perspective. The term globalization denotes economic, social and political processes that profoundly change power configurations within and across societies. This course introduces to gender as an analytical category for the analysis of globalization. Students will get acquainted with different theories and conceptualizations of gender and will learn how to employ gender as a structural category, a process category and/or an intersectional category for the analysis of globalization. This course aims at investigating with different analytical tools how globalization affects gender relations at the very local level: How are gender arrangements changing at different sites of production (industrial and agrarian)? How does international trade affect the local organization of food production? Moreover, the course also focuses at the feedback effects of gendered power relations at the local level on processes of global economic and social restructuring. |
