Beth A. Ferri, PhD
Associate Professor
Disability Studies & Inclusive Education
Syracuse University
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From: “Vivian M. May” <vmmay@syr.edu>
Date: July 27, 2012 8:18:36 AM EDT
To: <WGSFACULTY@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Subject: Fall course: feminist theories of knowing, WGS 740
Reply-To: “Vivian M. May” <vmmay@syr.edu>
Dear Colleagues,if you have graduate students who would be interested in taking a feminist theory course focused on epistemology and the politics of knowledge, please let them know about my fall seminar, WGS 740! A description is below….
Feminist Theories of Knowing, WGS 740
Wed 3:45-6:30
Professor Vivian May, vmmay@syr.edu
How do power & privilege shape what “counts” as knowledge & who “counts” as a knower?
This seminar explores a number of questions about the knowledge/power nexus, including:
- What is epistemic hegemony and how does it play out?
- What are strategies of epistemic resistance or insurgency?
- Whose knowledge, and what forms of knowledge, have been considered valid, and why?
- What roles do affect and embodiment play on knowing?
- What are the contours of thinking margin-to-margin (& not just margin to center)?
Drawing on a range of theoretical texts, course readings are organized around several key themes:
- Epistemologies of resistance
- Situated knowing: Affect, embodiment, identity
- Decolonizing knowledge and decolonial feminisms
- Thinking across borders
- Ignorance and hauntings
Planet of the Blind 