Violence and (In)security: Feminist, Queer and Anti-colonial perspectives (966M1)
30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)
Spring teaching
This module gives you a critical, interdisciplinary take on war, violence and security from feminist perspectives. These foreground the “intersectionality” of different power relations including:
- postcolonial
- decolonial
- Critical Indigenous
- transnational
- Black studies
- critical disability and queer approaches.
How are different forms and sites of violence connected? How do technologies of gender, sex, disability and race shape understandings of certain practices of violence as political, lawful, legitimate and/or necessary? What are the (feminist) ethics of researching and reproducing violence and suffering? What are the prospects and limits of the (International) law for peace and justice?
Among the themes we’ll explore are:
- the erotics of conquest and slavery
- military masculinities
- drones and ‘posthuman warfare’
- international law and the targeting of civilians
- sexual/ised violence in conflict
- private military and security companies
- torture and surveillance
- women and queers as age