Racial Biopolitics, Black Futurity - YMGS639

• Anglický název: Racial Biopolitics, Black Futurity
• Zajišťuje: Program Genderová studia (24-KGS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
• Platnost: od 2025
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:kombinovaná
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/2, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (25)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: doc. Věra Sokolová, M.A., Ph.D.; Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Vyučující: Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Korekvizity : {Kurz je pod tímto kódem určen studujícím magisterských studijních programů. V případě, že je kurz sdílen s bakalářským studiem, mohou si studující bakaláře zapsat jeho bakalářskou variantu s kódem začínajícím na "YB".}
• Neslučitelnost : YBLS034
• Je neslučitelnost pro: YBLS034

Anotace

čeština

This course introduces students to critical studies of race, racism and racial politics, their rich genealogies in feminist theory and activism, and their continued urgency, particularly in Europe. What exactly does it mean to say that race is ‘socially constructed’ or that it needs to be ‘re-ontologised’? Is race 'fluid'? How do race and gender inevitably intersect in historically specific ways? What are apparatuses (including research methodologies) through which race gets reiteratively produced and made absent? And how are ‘we’ implicated in such racial productions? Through engaging case studies and feminist debates, the course examines the ruptures and continuities of racial formations, antisemitism, post/colonialisms, and racialized embodiments. The aim is to develop critical thinking, reading and research strategies for addressing processes of racialisation in a geopolitical context where the importance of race is routinely denied. We will also look at feminist and anti- racist organising, concrete utopias, and debates about the limits of multiculturalism, and bio- and necropolitics.

Poslední úprava: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (25.02.2026)

angličtina

This course introduces students into the racial structuring of contemporary societies that purport to foster equality 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.

Poslední úprava: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

·       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 : 15%

·       Session leader: Jointly (with c 2-3 other students) prepare one handout for that class that contains a 500-word synopsis of the three main readings, a; a sound or piece of music, and 6 questions for classroom discussion  (blocks iI-IV). 20%

·       Abstract for final paper : 5%

·       Final paper (1800 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): 35%; 

Poslední úprava: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Sylabus

The full course syllabus and the first readings will be available in the first week of the semester. Sessions will consist of short lectures, student led discussions and classroom excercises. Course requirements include leading the discussion, a short response papers and a term paper.

Block I  White Innocence and the In/visibilities of Racial Formations

Block II  Gender, Racial Schemas and Premature Death

Block III Silence and Absences in the Archive

Block IV : Racial and gendered Trans/Formations and Utopias

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Poslední úprava: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)