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GSFR Electives 2021-2022 Preferred Electives

These courses have been pre-approved by the GSFR Director to count towards your GSFR program in 2021-22. In some but not all courses, seats have been reserved for GSFR students. You will need department consent to enroll. Please see each course for who to contact for help enrolling; please include your McMaster student number in all email requests for elective seats.

Fall 2021/Term 1 (September-December 2021)

A decision has not yet been made about whether Fall 2021/Term 1 courses will be in person or online

GENDRST 708 Creating and Embodying Theory – Dr. Grace Kehler Day/Time TBD Contact: Angela Zaya, [email protected] This course focuses on a range of creative texts (such as film, painting, short stories, novels, and autobiography), looking to their prompts to engage with the pressing everyday issues of ongoingness and revitalization in the face of violence, loneliness, loss, disability, and racial and sexual/gender discrimination. All of the primary texts will be accompanied by theoretical ones, but the impetus is to explore how the creative invites particular theoretical and embodied engagement. Possible textual pairings include: • the diary, paintings, and sketches of Frida Kahlo (Mexican); the documentary The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo; and critical writing by Carlos Fuentes (Introduction to Kahlo’s Diary) and excerpts from either Tobin Siebers’ Disability Aesthetics (2010) or Eli Clare’s Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) • The Road Forward (2017), a musical-documentary by Marie Clements (Canadian Métis), and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Nishnaabeg Brilliance as Radical Resurgence Theory” (2017) • Casey Plett’s transgender novel Little Fish (2018) along with excerpts from Gayle Salamon’s Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010) • Stories from Shani Mootoo’s (Trinidadian-Canadian) Out on Main Street (1993) and excerpts from Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (2010) • Honeyland (2019), a documentary set in North Macedonia, along with Franklin Ginn and Kelsey Green’s “The Smell of Selfless Love: Sharing Vulnerability with Bees in Alternative Apiculture” (2014)

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GENDERST 6QA3 Queerness in the Archives: Lesbian and Gay Writing, Art and Activism in Canada – Dr. Amber Dean Day/Time TBD Contact: Angela Zaya, [email protected] Please note this course is only available to MA students (not PhD diploma students) This course examines lesbian and gay writing, art and activism in Canada during the period 1969 to 1989. The course will include a trip to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto, and students will be trained in archival research methods. In 1969, then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously proclaimed his view that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation” as sweeping changes to the Criminal Code of Canada effectively decriminalized “homosexuality.” Taking this year as our starting point we will explore the next two decades of queer life in Canada, a time of intensive lesbian and gay cultural production and activism. We will focus on fiction, journalism, theatre, film, visual and media art, and documentation of activism such as responses to decriminalization in 1969, to the Toronto bathhouse raids of 1981, to state censorship of lesbian and gay materials deemed “obscene,” and early organizing in response to AIDS. In the early 1990s, lesbian and gay activism in Canada increasingly begins to focus on achieving equal rights and state protection from discrimination; while these issues were also pursued, discussed and debated in the two decades prior, we will consider whether and how the art, activism and writing from 1969-1989 anticipates, invites, defends against, or worries about this shift in focus toward greater inclusion of lesbians and gays and away from an emphasis on gay and lesbian identity and culture as different from (and existing in tension with) so- called mainstream or “heteronormative” culture and values. The 1990s also saw the rise of queer theory as a field and the productive questioning of the categories of “gay” and “lesbian” in the interests of securing an understanding of “queer” as antinormative and subjectless. We will explore what might be read as “queer” about the writing, activism and art of lesbians and gays before the emergence of queer theory as a field, challenging ourselves to reconsider dominant stories about the origins and rise of both LGBTQ rights claims and queer theorizing.

CMSTMM 707 Theoretical Issues in Media, Culture, and Communication – Dr. Lyndsey Beutin Day/Time TBD Contact: Cassandra Weimann, [email protected] This course analyzes how the key concepts underpinning media, cultural, and communication studies – concepts like liberalism, democratic participation, the public sphere, privacy and surveillance, and social inequity – are fundamentally shaped by race, gender, and global white supremacy. Students will be introduced to recent conversations in Black studies, Indigenous studies, critical ethnic studies, and disability studies. Students will learn how to apply theoretical frameworks to specific research case studies.

ENGLISH/CULTRST 708 Selfie/Culture – Dr. Sarah Brophy Day/Time TBD Contact: Ilona Forgo-Smith [email protected]

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A critical study of the uses of digital vernacular photography, especially selfies, informed by auto/biography studies, cultural theory, comparative decolonial and feminist studies, and visual and digital media studies.

HISTORY 766 Comparative Perspectives on Health and Medicine in the Colonial World – Dr. Juanita De Barros Wednesdays 2:30-5:30pm Contact: Aurelia Gatto [email protected] Concentrating on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this comparative course explores the history of health and medicine in the colonial world. Topics include public health, responses to epidemics, the roles of indigenous healthcare workers, interactions between imperial centres and colonies, and global health organizations.

LABRST 740 Labour Geography (Special Topics in Labour Studies) – Dr. Suzanne Mills Day/Time TBD Contact: Megan Stokes, [email protected] Space is critical to how work is organized as well as to how workers and worker movements leverage power. This course will ask: How have workers shaped the geography of capitalism? How do unions use space to gain power and further their interests? To what extent do workers who characterized as marginalized have agency? We will adopt a spatial lens that is attentive to how social categories such as gender, racialization, Indigeneity, and sexual orientation shape worker experiences. We will begin by examining the geography of capitalism and key concepts in labour geography such as scale and place before moving on to discuss key debates and emerging topics in labour geography.

LABRST 791 Contemporary Issues in Labour Studies – Dr. Judy Fudge Day/Time TBD Contact: Megan Stokes, [email protected] In 2016, the United Nations adopted Target 8.7 as one of its Sustainable Development Goals, calling on all governments to take immediate and effective measures to end forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking, as well as child labour in all its forms. Migrant workers and transnational supply chains are seen as two vectors that make forced labour a truly global problem, and there is a growing global consensus that “fair recruitment” initiatives and laws regulating supply chains are required. What does the contemporary focus on forced labour reveal about conventional understandings of global capitalism and labour exploitation? Who are the social actors shaping the “modern slavery” policy space? What are the governance mechanisms that have been developed to regulate forced labour? We will explore these questions throughout the seminar, drawing upon a range of theoretical lenses (such as feminism, Marxism, critical race and postcolonial theory) and different disciplinary perspectives (political economy, geography, anthropology, sociology and law, for instance). A key component of the seminar will be interrogating the relationship between theory and policy, and developing skills of policy analysis and policy writing using initiatives designed to eliminate forced labour in supply and labour chains as our focus.

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LABRST 793 Advanced Labour Studies Theory – Dr. Stephanie Ross Day/Time TBD Contact: Megan Stokes, [email protected] In this seminar, students will deepen their knowledge of select thinkers in classical and contemporary labour studies theory. Class time will be divided between the work of key theorists in the areas of labour process theory, the sociology of work and labour markets and that of theorists who challenge or extend these conceptualizations. The focus on contemporary labour studies theory will examine how labour studies theory is evolving in new directions. In particular, we will focus on how labour studies theory has been influenced by different social movements and sub-disciplines so as to integrate theoretical insights from feminist, anti-racist, geographical, anti-colonial and disability rights perspectives.

Religious Studies 789 Topics in Gender and Feminist Theory and Religious Studies – Dr. Celia Rothenberg Day/Time TBD Contact: Doreen Drew, [email protected] This course will examine ways in which the insights of feminist and gender theory have impacted and are combined with areas of analysis in the anthropology of religion. Saba Mahmood’s ethnography on nonliberal religious women in Cairo, The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2011) will be our starting point. We will then read and discuss ethnographies that address a range of religious traditions and their gendered practices and beliefs. Specific topics may include religious education, fertility and reproductive technologies, sexuality, conversion, dress, and others. No background in a specific religious tradition is required.

SOCIOL 702 The Social Psychology of Colonialism and Decolonization (Selected Topics in Sociological Approaches to Social Psychology) – Dr. Jeff Denis Day/Time TBD Contact: Dr. Jeff Denis, [email protected] This course will examine the processes of colonialism and decolonization, with a focus on social psychological dimensions. After taking a broad historical overview, we will survey selected classical theories of colonialism from globally renowned scholars such as Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, and Edward Said. We will review key tenets of postcolonial and settler colonial theories and then shift our attention to the Canadian context. In the second half of the course, we will examine critical Indigenous and allied perspectives on settler colonialism and intergenerational trauma and recent work on Indigenous resurgence and settler decolonization. We will consider how colonialism shapes individual identities, relationships, and life-chances, how colonialism intersects with racism, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and other systems of oppression, and the promise and challenges of various decolonial strategies.

SOCIOL 759 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality – Dr. Melanie Heath Day/Time TBD Contact: Dr. Melanie Heath, [email protected] An examination of classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives on gender relations, with an emphasis on the development of feminist thought, and the links between gender, and race, ethnicity,

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citizenship, and class. The discussion of analytical frameworks for understanding gender construction, gender difference, and gender inequalities will be informed by research in selected substantive areas such as: the economy, work, family, sexuality, popular culture, and law.

SocWork 721 Changing Communities: Tensions and Possibilities for Citizenship and Social Justice – Dr. Ameil Joseph Day/Time TBD Contact: Darlene Savoy, [email protected] This course examines contemporary theories and practices of community and citizenship in Canada. Rather than assuming a consensual and universal model of collectivity, we explore how notions of togetherness, common interests, active citizenship and rights and responsibilities are constituted, enacted, practiced and challenged in the community, and how social work workers and community workers could promote social justice through grassroots organizing, advocacy and community-based research.

Philosophy 759 Philosophy Applied Ethics – Dr. Ariella Binik Date/Time TBD Contact: Rabia Awan, [email protected] Health research with human subjects offers one of the best prospects for improving people's health and wellbeing. But it also involves exposing people to risk for the benefit of science, which generates a tension between our moral obligations to current and to future people. This course will examine how this tension emerges and how it can be resolved in different circumstances, such as high-risk research, the ethics of vaccine trials, and the moral permissibility of research risks to bystanders.

Philosophy 764 Social and Political Philosophy – Dr. Violetta Igneski Date/Time: TBA Contact: Rabia Awan, [email protected] Title: Collective Responsibility, Collective Obligation and Social Injustice Description: How should we think about responsibility for the greatest challenges facing humanity today, such as poverty, structural discrimination and climate change? We will address this question by exploring different philosophical views on backward-looking responsibility and blame, forward-looking responsibility and obligation; and how they apply to individuals and collectives, within both the moral and political realms.

Winter 2022/Term 2 (January-April 2022)

A decision has not yet been made about whether Winter 2022/Term 2 courses will be in person or online

GENDERST 703 Special Topics in Gender Studies & Feminist Research – instructor TBA Day/Time TBD Contact: Angela Zaya, [email protected]

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Drawing on feminist, anti-racism, and anti-colonial theories, this course examines how gender as it intersects with race, culture, sexual orientation, immigrant status, class, poverty, and (dis)ability shapes health outcomes and experiences accessing health services. Using a structural determinants of health framework, the course pinpoints the structural inequities within employment, criminal justice, the environment, public infrastructure, health care, and other social structures that shape gendered health outcomes and experiences accessing health services. The course will focus on the gendered health impacts of structural stigma, IPV and other forms of gender-based violence, mental illness, intergenerational trauma, COVID-19, environmental racism, the climate crisis, and community-based health advocacy, among other topics.

GENDRST 6RI3: Colonialism and Resistance in Representations of Indigenous Womanhood – Dr. Kaitlin Debicki Day/Time TBD Contact: Angela Zaya, [email protected] Please note this course is only available to MA students (not PhD diploma students) Indigenous women of Turtle Island (North America) have experienced oppression and dislocation from land, communities, spirituality, and traditional roles as a result of European colonization. These dislocations are accomplished in part through practices of representation that entrench widespread misunderstandings of Indigenous women through a dichotomy described by Janice Acoose as “easy squaws or Indian princesses.” In this course, we will explore writings and cultural productions by and about Indigenous women that articulate and interpret dislocations and acts of oppression arising from the following: inaccurate and stereotypical images; colonial policies of both Canada and the United States; media and societal-influenced attitudes about the role and positions of Native women; and physical, spiritual, sexualized and racialized images that have caused and furthered oppressive and genocidal actions against Indigenous women, including murder. Genres to be studied include biography, fiction, poetry, drama, media (mainstream and alter/native), and film. By engaging with several such productions, we will ask: How are Indigenous women represented in both Indigenous and non- Indigenous cultural productions? What role do cultural representations play in the processes of colonization and decolonization? What similarities and differences exist across historical and contemporary representations? How do cultural representations affect the real life experiences of Indigenous women? How do cultural productions by Indigenous women effectively resist and offer corrections to inaccurate portrayals and misrepresentations offered by the colonizer? And in what ways might we as individuals and students be complicit in and/or resist colonial misrepresentations of Indigenous women?

GENDRST 6Z03: Gender and the Textile Arts – Dr. Angela Sheng Day/Time TBD Contact: Angela Zaya, [email protected] Please note this course is only available to MA students (not PhD diploma students) This seminar will critically examine issues related to changes in the art and technology of textile-making and ornamentation of various cultures at different time periods: visuality, materiality, function, power, wealth, usage, taste, distribution, and especially, gender. Readings by interdisciplinary academics, artists, and curators will be structured along the following themes: histories and frameworks of studying

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ANTHROP 706 Bodies, Politics, Data – Dr. Cal Biruk Day/Time TBD Contact: John Silva, [email protected] This course examines how power operates in, on, and through the body. We will attend to how the datafication and surveillance of health, bodily processes, and life itself reconfigure and reinvent racialized, sexed, gendered, and other categories of difference through which bodies and populations are classified and managed. The case studies and theoretical frameworks for this course draw inspiration from scholarship in anthropology, queer/trans studies, critical race theory, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies (STS). Areas of inquiry may include global/ public health, biomedicine, carcerality and surveillance, genetic science, algorithms, international development, and human rights.

ANTHROP 722: Ethnographic Theory and Research Methods – Dr. Yana Stainova Day/Time TBD Contact: John Silva, [email protected] Although located within the Department of Anthropology, this course is explicitly designed to engage graduate students from a range of disciplines and with a diverse set of research objectives. Ideally suited for graduate students who plan to carry out ethnographic fieldwork as part of their MA or PhD thesis research, it will also be valuable for students who are considering such fieldwork or who want to develop familiarity with ethnographic research methods. Themes and readings will balance an on-going discussion of research epistemology (How do we know what we know?) with an exploration of concrete research methods. We will explore the origins of ethnography within anthropology (What problems of knowledge was it designed to meet?), and compare the anthropological approach with other ethnographic traditions, such as sociology, as well as more recent uses in the humanities and other social sciences. The course will consider each moment in the ethnographic research process: from conceptualization and design, to fieldwork practice, analysis, and writing. Students will get the most out of this course if they bring a specific research project or question to it.

ANTHROP 740: Biocultural Synthesis – Dr. Tina Moffat Day/Time TBD Contact: John Silva, [email protected] In 1998, with their book entitled "Building a New Biocultural Synthesis", Alan Goodman and Thomas Leatherman challenged Biological Anthropology to broaden its theoretical scope to include political economy and political ecology – in short to become a more critical sub-discipline within Anthropology – reflexively analyzing the historical and cultural influences on our theory and methodology. In this seminar, we begin by critically examining the roots of the biocultural approach by exploring various theoretical frameworks from biological and medical anthropology that address the interplay between biology, culture, and health. We will then continue to explore emerging themes and uses of biocultural frameworks in health studies and biological anthropology. We cover a wide variety of the following

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theoretical approaches and topics: critical perspectives in medical anthropology, the environment, bodies and embodiment, race and racism, life history and life course theory, and the developmental origins of health and disease.

CMSTMM 710 Feminism, Islam and the Global Media Sphere (International Communications) – Dr. Dilyana Mincheva Day/Time TBD Contact: Cassandra Weimann, [email protected] The course is focused on the contested concept, praxis and media articulations of Islamic feminism, as an emerging field of study at the global intersections of Islam and women’s agency in humanities scholarship, activism and politics. Conceptually, Islamic feminism has been rejected, negotiated, promoted or critically engaged by feminist scholars, religious authorities, public figures, artists and global audiences with various investments in the arguments, journalism, politics or aesthetics of Islamic feminisms. Engagement with a vast body of theoretical, media and aesthetic forms of Islamic feminism and its proponents or critiques is at the center of this seminar course. First, students are introduced to the main analytical discussions within the field of Islamic feminism through the writings of prominent scholars in the field (Leila Ahmed, Saba Mahmood, Lila Abu Lughod, Nawal El Saadawi, Ziba Mir Husseini, Haider Moghissi, Margot Badran, Asma Barlas, Soumya Mestiri, miriam cooke, among others). Then, students encounter media texts (film, activism, documentaries), which further complexify the theoretical arguments and/or represent the achievements and challenges faced by Islamic feminism in new lights. From hyper mediatized controversies such as Mona Eltahawy’s #MoqsueMeToo campaign, Irshad Manji’s project ijtihad and Rana Husseini’s campaigns for the end of gender violence in Jordan to analysis of revolutionary and jihadist feminist agencies in film and documentary, the course aims to capture the multi-channel, vibrant, global discussions around gender and equality within an Islamic framework. The central argument of the course is that these variously positioned and often conflicting voices of feminism and reform constitute a global, feminist Western-Islamic public sphere of connection and contestation, of critique, deliberation and affect. The normative assessment of this global flow of public communication is open to students’ own positionalities and engagement with theory and/or activism. Our final goal will be to interrogate the place of Canadian Muslim feminism within the framework of global feminist Islam and to explore its contributions to open, diverse, racially and genderjust, imaginative and democratic Canadian-Islamic public sphere.

CMSTMM 721: Alternative Media Forms in Africa – Dr. Selina Mudavanhu Day/Time TBD Contact: Cassandra Weimann, [email protected] This course examines alternative media forms in Africa that prioritise the rights, voices and quotidian experiences of people who are often marginalised in mainstream media. Media forms whose ownership patterns, content, format and distribution will be analysed include ‘pirate’ radio, community radio, alternative film and video, grassroots and ‘dissident’ press, alternative blogs, social media sites and websites, and ‘guerilla’ or street art. Contexts the course covers include South Africa during the apartheid and fallism epochs, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda under undemocratic colonial and postcolonial regimes, Nigeria and Ghana in the film and video era as well as Egypt and Tunisia in times of anti-government uprisings. Topics that may be considered and applied to analyses of media forms in

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the above contexts include power, intersectionality, hegemony, counter-hegemony, anti-hegemony, subalternity, self-representation, active citizenship and social activism.

ENGLISH/CULTRST 781: Public Mourning in Canada: What Makes a Life Grievable? – Dr. Amber Dean Day/Time TBD Contact: Ilona Forgo-Smith, [email protected] Beginning with a consideration of Judith Butler’s development of the concept of “grievability,” this course will explore the question of what makes a life widely grievable in the contemporary context of colonial Canada. Case studies will include public mourning in response to murdered or missing Indigenous women; the 1985 Air India bombing; police murders of Black men and the Black Lives Matter movement; and high-profile murders of queer and trans* or gender non- conforming subjects and responses such as Trans Day of Remembrance.

HISTORY 780: Historical Perspectives on Women and Biography – Dr. Alison McQueen Day/Time TBD Contact: Aurelia Gatto [email protected] This seminar examines the ways in which female historical figures are presented through how others write of their lives. Students will critically evaluate biographies of female figures from a range of social and geographic situations, and across different periods of history. The course focuses on individuals identified as female but does not promote essentialist or determinist theories. It aims to promote the study of historical female figures and to equip students with the skills to assess how sources and methodologies can be used successfully, as well as how to discern approaches that have served to (re)inscribe female figures as minor, marginalized actors and/or following well-entrenched historical tropes. Students will have opportunities to undertake research on individuals of their choosing. Readings include texts such as: Cleopatra (Stacy Schiff, 2010), Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Robert K. Massie, 2011), Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (Nell Irvin Painter, 1997), Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Jung Chang, 2014), Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Hayden Herrera, 2002), Indira, the Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (Katherine Frank, 2002), Eleanor (David Michaelis, 2020), and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde (Alexis de Veaux, 2006).

HISTORY 776 History of Sexualities in the Western World, 1750 to the Present – Dr. Michael Gauvreau Day/Time TBD Contact: Aurelia Gatto [email protected] This course is intended as a historiographical introduction to the most recent advances in the study of the history of sexualities in the Western world during the modern era. Through weekly seminars, its intention is to explore the interplay between the definition and regulation of sexualities by religious bodies, governments, and medical and scientific experts, and the changing ways in which ordinary men and women have expressed sexual desire, and have articulated their sexual subjectivities.

LABRST 780 Bodies at Work, Science, Law & Occupational Health – Dr. Stephanie Premji

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Date/Time TBD Contact: Megan Stokes, [email protected] This course draws on interdisciplinary literature to investigate the current state of work and health in Canada and around the world. It will begin by developing a theoretical understanding of the political economy of work and health. Readings and discussions in the following sections will examine topics such as the embodiment of gendered, racialized and other forms inequality; the regulation of injured bodies (and minds) and role of the medico-legal system; and the impact of work injury and disease over the life course, and across generations and communities.

SocSci 701: Critical Approaches to Community Based Research – Dr. Saara Greene Date/Time TBD Contact: Darlene Savoy, [email protected] This course provides students with a working knowledge of the theoretical foundation and history of community based research; a practical understanding of the methods and methodologies taken up within community based research; and an entry into the practice of community based research with attention to: developing a critical analysis of collaboration, and of community-based research ethics; analyzing and evaluating strategies aimed at community-based participation and leadership; developing a critical understanding of engaging in research for social change.

RELIGST 777 Topics in Philosophy and Jewish Thought – Dr. Dana Hollander Date/Time TBD Contact: Dana Hollander, [email protected] Specific topic to be determined in consultation with participants. We will study a combination of works of Jewish philosophy, modern thought, and contemporary critical theory (which may include readings in gender theory or queer theory). Students: please contact Dr. Hollander ([email protected]) to communicate your interests and help shape this seminar. Updates will be posted at https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/danahol/ .

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