POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postcolonial Feminism, Standpoint Feminism, Green Politics

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Critical approaches: poststructuralism, feminism, post-colonialism, green politics, queer international. Post-colonial theory: critical approaches, green politics, queer international theory. Critical approaches: positivism and post -positivism, diverse: post-structuralism, feminism(s), postcolonial theory, queen international theory (qit), Green politics: but, share important intellectual commitments, skeptical of meta-narratives , consider the perspectives of actors missing in ir, hold that theory much unsettle established categories and framework, and to. Post-structuralism: post-structuralism (ps) is a critical attitude, approach, or ethos that calls attention to a new set of question and concerns, power and knowledge maps 1, 2 (mercator projection, 1569 and peter"s projection, 1970s; Feminism: many feminisms": liberal (e. g. , enloe); socialist/marxist; standpoint (tickner); radical feminism (highlight the fact that there are a perspective that just looks at economic, needs to be intersecte with race etc. Women"s experience" (intersectionality is missing) see graffiti 8: white men saving brown women from brown men, solution: unlearning one"s privilege, and learning to listen and learn from below (spivak)