Queer Worlds: Sexualities, Knowledge (032IDS)
Queer Worlds: Sexualities, Knowledge, Affect
Module 032IDS
Module details for 2024/25.
30 credits
FHEQ Level 7 (Masters)
Module Outline
The proposed module will introduce students to queer theory and praxis in global perspective. This
will include applying theories to real world concerns, for example with respect to global health,
climate change, migration, and transgender equality. It will also involve critical engagements with
issues arising when queer persons become objects of study, policy, law or intervention.
The module will open out epistemological and ontological engagements with ‘worlding’, facilitating
students’ understanding of ‘multiple world theories,’ and their implications for international
development, anthropology, politics, and activism. An affective approach to knowledge production
will be employed as both pedagogical approach and as a means to enable students to raise critical
questions pertaining to hegemonic representations of sexual and gender minorities in diverse
international contexts. This will involve taking up intersectional perspectives on race equity and
ethnicity, class and caste, disability and crip theory, and the politics of culturally comparative analyses
of ‘difference’ and diversity.
Indicative readings and context:
• COVID 19 Assemblages: Queer and Feminist Perspectives from South Asia’. New Delhi:
Routledge, forthcoming 2021, co-eds. Niharika Banerjea, Paul Boyce and Rohit K. Dasgupta
• Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern. London:
Routledge, 2019, co-eds. Paul Boyce, E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco
• The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South,
2015, Brill Press, co-eds. Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala
• Transnational LGBT Activism and UK-Based NGOs. 2020. London. Springer Press. Matthew
Farmer
Module learning outcomes
Demonstrate understanding of queer theories in international perspective.
Apply queer perspectives to real world issues and life experiences e.g.
pertaining to health, education, migration.
Assess and disseminate critical perspectives on knowledge production
from diverse theoretical and applied standpoint
Query norms and prevailing power structures in development practice,
social science, policy advocacy, and queer praxis, sharing these via the
assessment
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 20.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Essay | T2 Week 6 | 100.00% |
| Project (5000 words) | Semester 2 Assessment Week 2 Thu 16:00 | 80.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Semester | Lecture | 1 hour | 11111111111 |
| Spring Semester | Workshop | 2 hours | 11111111111 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
Dr Paul Boyce
Assess convenor, Convenor
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Dr Anna Laing
Assess convenor
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