Feminists, Concepts, Reconceptualizations (Fall 13): Traveling Knowledges

<<NEXT WEEK IS WORKSHOP #1! >>

YOUR PARTNER SHOULD HELP YOU FINALIZE BEFORE TUESDAY.
ASK YOUR QUESTIONS NOW!

WORK IN THREE DRAFTS: 1: to figure out what you know and think. 2: to figure out how to say that to other people, with attention to the craft of presentation. 3: REMEMBER TO MEET WITH CLASS PARTNER TO EDIT FINAL VERSIONS BEFORE TUES 22 OCT.

DID YOU NOTICE THE <POSTER WONDERINGS?> TAB? IT'S NEW! LOOK THERE FOR HELP WITH HANDOUTS AND POSTERS FOR WORKSHOP 1

Tuesday 22 Oct & Thursday 24 Oct

Tuesday we will share our work poster session style: divide in two groups, and all move around talking to each other about work during the class time. Thursday we will have a conversation about what we learned, noticed, thought about, and draw from the last class presentations. Make notes after Tuesday so you can run the discussion yourselves on Thursday.

· DUE THURSDAY 24 Oct IN CLASS: LOGBOOK 2, PAPER & HANDOUT IN HARD COPY & ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY, DIGITAL PICS IN HARDCOPY AND ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY

· Everything must be in final finished state on Tuesday to display, but you are allowed to revise one more time before turning things in on Thursday

· Send to katiekin@gmail.com , use filename <yrlastname> 300 <paper1> or <poster1> number pics if more than one. Subject header <yrlastname> 300 workshop1

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Thursday 17 October, Intersectionality as boundary object

· Davis, Kathy (2008), 'Intersectionality as buzzword: A sociology of science perspective on what makes a feminist theory successful', Feminist Theory, 9 (1), 67-85. (Handed out or otherwise shared).

· Davis, Appendix 3 & 4; you have finished the book!

· FIND DATES FOR EACH ARTICLE COLLECTED IN BOTH BERGER & HEWITT AND ANNOTATE A COPY OF THE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF EACH BOOK WITH THE DATES OF FIRST PUBLICATION (in Berger look at footnote at beginning of each article; in Hewitt look at first note at end of each article for publication info). Get into the habit of doing this with all such collections for feminist courses. You will never regret it!

How is Davis’ analysis of OBOS similar to her analysis of intersectionality? (Don’t get sidetracked by the term “buzzword” in her title for the intersectionality article, or at least not at first. Consider it AFTER you have made your comparisons, and think about what other terms might have been better?) How are myths, buzzwords and boundary objects related to epistemological projects?

problematize, criticize, critique, debunk

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oppositional consciousness: which face is forward in Necker cube? THINK OF HOW INDIVIDUALISM AS WORD AND IDEA IS CONTEXTUALLY DIFFERENT.

THEN also:
sifting and sorting through the complexities, where good and bad are just not so clear? HOW TO EXAMINE AS THE BOUNDARY OBJECT CHANGES OVER TIME AND PLACE?

many worlds

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Tuesday 15 October, Transnational Body/Politics: knowledge in both directions

· Davis, all of Part III (Chs 6 & 7)

· Use the Index to look up all places in the book “individualism” is mentioned.

It turns out that when feminists in Latin America hear the word “individualism” it means something quite different than when feminists in Bulgaria hear and use it. What are the different understandings? Why are they different in historical context? What did that mean for translators? What does it have to do with traveling terms, boundary objects, and epistemological projects? (How does the index help?) [In translation at OBOS website]

problematize, criticize, critique, debunk

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