Module ARAM230 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM230: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Palestine/Israel
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Gender, Sexuality & Settler Colonialism
- Gendering Political Violence
- Nationalism & the Construction of Collective Identities
- Borders, Boundaries & the Politics of Space
- Displacement & Diaspora
- Embodiment: Experiences of Control & Carcerality
- The Politics of Everyday Life: Normalcy &‘Getting By’
- Feminist Praxis & Women’s Activism
- Queer Politics: Pinkwashing & Homonationalism
- Resistance: From Ordinary Actions to Popular Protest
- Anti-colonial Politics & De-colonial Projects
- Toward New Political Futures: Imagination and Cultural Production
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 27.5 | 122.5 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 27.5 | 11 x 2.5-hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 55 | Weekly reading (5 hours per week) |
| Guided Independent Study | 12.5 | Class/seminar preparation (including researching and posting news forums links) |
| Guided Independent Study | 28.5 | Project (18.5 hours researching/coordinating, 10 hours writing/preparing presentation) |
| Guided Independent Study | 26.5 | Essay (16.5 hours reading, 10 hours writing) |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Other Learning Resources
Videos/films, TV programmes, online materials (news sites, blogs, social media), images, podcasts, play scripts, music, memoirs.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Abdo, N., Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System, 2014.
Abdo, N. and Yuval-Davis, N., Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class, 1995.
Abdo, N. and Masalha, N. (eds.), An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba, 2018.
Arvin, M., Tuck, E. and Morrill, A., ‘Decolonising Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy’, Feminist Formations, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 8-34, 2013.
Fanon, F., ‘Concerning Violence’ in The Wretched of the Earth, 1968.
Icaza, R. and de Jong, S. (eds.) Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning, 2019.
Lentin, R., Thinking Palestine, 2008.
Morgensen, S., ‘Theorising Gender, Sexuality and Settler Colonialism: An Introduction’, Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 2-22, 2012.
Natanel, K., Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel/Palestine, 2016.
Puar, J., Terrorist Assemblages: homonationalism in queer times, 2007.
Said, E., ‘Permission to Narrate’, Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 27-48, 1984.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study, 2009.
Sharoni, S., Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance, 1995.
Wolfe, P., ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native’, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 387-409, 2006.
