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Veranstaltungen von Dr. Chiara Stefanoni

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Gender and Diversity Research Methods (Seminar)

Inhalt: The course aims to provide an introduction to gender and diversity methods in research in the humanities and social sciences. Beyond the feminist perspective, it also addresses dimensions of diversity related to race/racism and disability (crip theory) and their intersections. We will begin with a fundamental question to frame the course: why the need for the specific charachterization of “gender & diversity” when discussing methods? Answering this requires both a theoretical and a historical approach. Theoretically, it involves examining epistemological debates and the foundational concepts of feminist theories, critical race theory, and critical disability studies – in short, of critical epistemologies (e.g., situated knowledges, standpoint theories, decoloniality, construction/deconstruction, opacity). What does this adjective critical stand for? Critical of what? This theoretical framework is crucial, as it guides and underpins the various and numerous gender- and diversity-sensitive research methods. Historically, it means understanding the socio-political context of emergence of something like “Gender and Diversity Methods” in the academia. How can we learn to ask research questions differently? And to conduct research differently? This is the methodological part of the course, articulated for instance through methods in the humanities - for example: how does one do feminist philosophy? How does one analyze a cultural product (film, book, artwork, archive) from a decolonial perspective? as well as through a selection of qualitative social research methods. In this part, students will engage hands-on with texts from their own disciplines in which gender- and diversity-oriented questions and methods are central and substantially addressed. Finally, through guided class activities, students will have the opportunity to practice integrating questions, methods, and/or goals that take gender and diversity into account – or focus explicitly on them – into their own research practice.