Short Course: Throwing BRICS at feminism: what could possibly go wrong?

30 Jan 7:00pm – 6 Feb 8:30pm 2025 NZDT

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This course is a hybrid course with a recorded lecture and a 90 minute Zoom meeting for each day to discuss and do hands-on learning activities. You will also get a short curated list of things for you to listen to, read, and watch for each session.

The Zoom sessions for this class are at:

  •  7:30 pm NZT/5:30 pm AEST Monday 25 November, Tuesday 26 November, Wednesday 27 November, and Friday 28 November. 


Class starts on 25 November, 2024


Course Instructor Dr. Tracey Jane Nicholls


In this course, you will encounter an approach to thinking about today’s political questions that stresses the skill-set of political thinking and theorising. Being a political theorist is something that can be learned by anyone interested in trying to make sense of their social world, and of worlds that haven’t been built yet. In addition to being introduced to questions of what happens, and to whom, when power relations shift. You will also be encouraged to take yourself seriously as a thinker and commentator on the politics of our time.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the history of feminism (mostly told from the Global North, but with growing attention to critical voices from elsewhere), and the history of coalitions and common causes of BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa),
  • Consider the struggles of each within a global community dominated by Global North power alliances (NATO, United Nations, IMF),
  • Learn to speculate carefully and thoughtfully about future tensions and challenges for feminism in a BRICS-dominated future, and
  • Learn to develop yourself as a political thinker within your own sphere of influence. 


Course Outline
Monday
History, Framing, and How We Got Here

Tuesday What ‘Here’ Looks Like, and Where We Might Be Headed

Wednesday  What Could Possibly Go Wrong? What Could Go Right?

Thursday Can We Centre the Global South without BRICS? What Role Might Indigenous Thinking Play?

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