Sumários

Acts of citizenship and women's rights

6 Novembro 2023, 18:00 Manuel João Ramos


From citizenship to acts of citizenship and Human Rights

Politisation of citizenship. Women's rights.

The local and the global.

- students' presentations and debate

Required readings

- McCLain, Linda and Joanna L. Grossman eds., 2009, Gender Equality. Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chaps.2, 10,11.


Recommended readings

- Cloud, Christine, 2010, Cherríe Moraga's "Loving in the War Years": lo que nunca pasó por sus labios: Auto-ethnography of the "New Mestiza", in Confluencia, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 84-97;

- Cody, Francis, 2016, "The obligation to act: Gender and reciprocity in political mobilization, in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol.6, no. 3, pp. 179-199;

- Friedman, Marilyn, ed.,2005, Women and Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, chaps. 5, 6, 10;

- Phadke, Shilpa, Shilpa Ranade, and Sameera Khan. 2009. "Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent" In Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities, edited by Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham, Oxon/New York: Routledge, pp. 185-203

Aid and Development - Goals and paradoxes

6 Novembro 2023, 13:00 Catarina Fróis


Aid and Development: goals and paradoxes

Politics of Suffering: stereotypes and representations of drama
Humanitarian Aid, the "white savior complex" discussion, recommended readings: James Scott, Tanya Murray Li, James Ferguson.
Volunteer tourism: analysis of Plan My Gap year, Humanitarians of Tinder, Barbie Saviour

Universalism vs relativism

30 Outubro 2023, 20:30 Manuel João Ramos


The universalism vs relativism debate

Who is the subject of Human Rights

- students' presentations and debate

Universalism vs relativism

30 Outubro 2023, 18:00 Manuel João Ramos


The universalism vs relativism debate

Who is the subject of Human Rights

- students' presentations and debate

Preparation of Group Presentations

30 Outubro 2023, 13:00 Catarina Fróis


Preparation of Group Presentations - Q&A