Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The course aims to interrogate the assumption that concepts developed in Western social and philosophical contexts necessarily have universal validity. Hence, rather than invariably taking over theories developed in western contexts, this course encourages students to engage with conceptual fields emerging from the experience of the non-west.
The course problematizes existing conceptual vocabularies to see
i) how they can be made to work in any given context and thus critique the theoretical dependency and "imperialism of categories".
ii) how change has been articulated through the creative use of existing vocabularies.
The course will seek to globalize perspectives on gender by taking note of the "local" and "empirical" to produce dense contextual analyses- a process that entails challenging the purported universalism of western feminist discourses.
Students will read critically at least a few major debates on feminist thought and gender along with approaches, critiques and perspectives from the non-Western location of the Indian subcontinent.
The course is designed to encourage comparative thinking. Students will reflect on ways in which feminist debates from a non-Western location may be used to set up conversations with the Turkish one