Racial Biopolitics, Black Futurity - YBLS034

• Title: Racial Biopolitics, Black Futurity
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: YMGS639
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Věra Sokolová, M.A., Ph.D.; Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Group of prerequisites for LAH and Exchange students - SOC}
• Incompatibility : YMGS639
• Is incompatible with: YMGS639

Annotation

English

This course introduces students into the racial structuring of contemporary societies, including their bio- and necropolitics, the forgotten places of slow death, and white innocence. Of particular interest are questions of how we can take account of histories and experiences that are not integrated into historical discourses or archives, and what forms of futurity might inhere in these histories and everyday practices and sensations. Here we will examine also creative methods of future making proposed by indigenous and Black feminist scholars.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Czech Sign Language

This course introduces students into the racial structuring of contemporary societies, including their bio- and necropolitics, the forgotten places of slow death, and white innocence. Of particular interest are questions of how we can take account of histories and experiences that are not integrated into historical discourses or archives, and what forms of futurity might inhere in these histories and everyday practices and sensations. Here we will examine also creative methods of future making proposed by indigenous and Black feminist scholars.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (08.09.2025)

Course completion requirements

Assessment

·       Active participation in class (discussion question, class exercises): 25%

·       Concept paper (700 words): discuss one important analytical concept from the readings. Explain what it is, and what allows one to do in relation to another concepts in relation to another text or event and show what it can do: 25% 

·       Abstract/outline for final paper: research question, outline, sources) (250 words): 10%

·       Final paper (1600 words): analyses a (surprising) ‘vignette’, an extract from a fieldnote, interview, novel, photograph, film extract from a conceptual perspective discussed in the course (must cite at least 3 sources from the course); can build on reflection paper, and can be co-written (3500 words): 40%

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Syllabus

a full sylabus will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)