SOCI 858: Decolonizing Social Research
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Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
Taking inspiration from indigenous and black studies, anticolonial, postcolonial, and Global South scholarship, and activist practices, this course explores how we can decolonize our research methodologies. Sociology places itself in a privileged position in the established hierarchies of knowledge, with its universalizing tendencies and west-centric concepts that stand for the global, rendering other experiences and other ways of knowing obscure and invalid. The course will examine how scholars have engaged with these issues through critical reflection, respect, reciprocity and learning, embeddedness in social struggles, and collaborative knowledge production. Offered by Sociology & Anthropology. May not be repeated for credit.
Recommended Prerequisite: SOCI 620
Registration Restrictions:
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy or Graduate.
Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.