Readings

Meeting 1: Pilot meeting (17 October, 2020)

Meeting 2: Decolonization (19 November, 2020)

• Lorde, A. (2013). Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory. In Decolonizing methodologies : Research and indigenous peoples (E-book, pp. 57-91). Zed Books 

• Stoler, A. L. (2008). Imperial debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination. Cultural Anthropology, 23(2), 191–219. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00007.x

• Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40

Meeting 3: Movie discussion, South Asia (22 December 2020) 

• Movie: The Breadwinner (2017)

• Corboz, J. Gibbs, A., & Jewkes, R. (2020). Bacha posh in Afghanistan: factors associated with raising a girl as a boy. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 22(5), 585-598, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2019.1616113

• Nordberg, J. (2014). The underground girls of Kabul: the hidden lives of Afghan girls disguised as boys. London: Virago Press. 350 pp. 

Meeting 4: Gender, empowerment, development, South Asia (27 January 2021) 

• Key Author: Naila Kabeer 

• Lead discussant: Dr. Sumeet Sekhon 

• Kabeer, N. (1999). Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment. Development and Change, 30, 435-464, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00125

• Kabeer, N. (2012). Empowerment, citizenship, and gender justice: A contribution to locally grounded theories of change in women's lives. Ethics and Social Welfare, 6(3), 216-232, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2012.704055 

Meeting 5: Indigenous feminist methods, decolonizing research, Africa (19 February 2021)

• Key Author: Bagele Chilisa 

• Lead discussant: Dr. Malida Mooken

• Chilisa, B., Major, E. T., & Khudu-Peterson, K. (2017). Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm. Qualitative Research, 17(3), 326-339, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117696176 

• Chilisa, B. & Ntseane, G. (2010) Resisting dominant discourses: implications of indigenous, African feminist theory and methods for gender and education research. Gender and Education, 22(6), 617-632, DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2010.519578

Meeting 6: Decolonizing theory and feminism (19 March 2021)

• Key author: Chandra T. Mohanty

• Lead discussant: Navjotpal Kaur

• Mohanty, C.T. (2002). “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, 28(2), 499-535, https://doi.org/10.1086/342914 

• Mohanty, C. T. (2003). Introduction. In Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (pp. 1-13). Duke University Press. 

Meeting 7: Gender and class in healthcare, Pakistan, South Asia  (16 April 2021)

• Presenter: Sarah Ahmed (own work)

• Ahmed, S. (2021). "Lady Health Workers vs. Pakistan’s Public Healthcare System" In Progress 

Meeting 8: Centralizing the Global South in Research, a workshop (21 May 2021)

• Discussants: Sumeet Sekhon and Navjotpal Kaur

Meeting 9: Developing research conversations (18 June 2021)

• Open discussion

Meeting 10: Meet and greet new members (16 July 2021)

• Register for the meeting: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/qrl-gs-introductory-public-meeting-tickets-160267996893  

Meeting 11: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (20 August 2021)

• Open discussion

• Can the subaltern speak?

• Explanation and culture: Marginalia

• City, country, agency

Meeting 12: Walter Mignolo (17 September 2021)

• Mignolo, W. (2009). Epistemic disobedience, independent thought and decolonial freedom. Theory and Culture, 26 (7-8), pp. 159-181

Meeting 13: Marisol De La Cadena (16 October 2021)

• De La Cadena, M. (2005). Are Mestizos hybrids? The conceptual politics of Andean identities. J. Latin Amer. Stud., 37, pp. 259-284

• Lead discussant: Martina Tonet

Meeting 14: Caste (19 November 2021)

• Wilkerson, I. (2020). Caste: The origins of our discontents. New York: Random House

• Lead discussant: Jusmeet Sihra

Meeting 15: Epistemic violence, gender, development (21 January 2022)

• Nagar, R. (2021). Gender, caste and movement: Lessons from Sangtin Yatra, Gender, Place & Culture, 28:2, 161-175, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1764914

• Gilbertson, A. (2021). The changed and the unchanged: Peer learning for gender and development in Delhi, Gender, Place & Culture, 28:2, 176-191, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1773412

Meeting 16: Epistemic injustice, decolonial praxis (18 February 2022)

• Grosfoguel, R. (2007). The epistemic decolonial turn, Cultural Studies, 21(2-3), 211-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162514

• Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2018). The dynamics of epistemological decolonization in the 21st century: Towards epistemic freedom, Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 40(1), 16-45.

Meeting 17: Postcolonial and decolonial studies (25 March 2022)

• Bhambra, G.K. (2014). Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues, Postcolonial Studies, 17(2), 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2014.966414 

• Bhambra, G.K. & Sousa Santos, B. (2017). Introduction: Global Challenges for Sociology, Sociology, 51(1), 3-10. ps://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516674665 

Meeting 18: Postcolonial studies, African studies, gender (22 April 2022)

• Oyěwùmí, O. (1997). The invention of women: Making an African sense of Western gender discourses. University of Minnesota Press. 

Meetings 19 and 20: July-August 2022

• Developing research conversations