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Ethni-Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Genre and Diversity

Objectives

a) Participation in the debates on mobilities, collective identities (race, gender, class, etc.), its relation with the urban environments where they originate and intersect and with the political dimension imposed on them;
b) recognize the different theoretical framing of migratory fluxes and diversities, in particular in urban settings.
c) critical thinking about the central concepts approached and their methodological counterparts.
d) to elaborate research plans adequate to complex environments and to translate them into tools of inquiriy and building of public policies.

General characterization

Code

722081130

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Nuno Manuel Ferreira Dias

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

Anthias, F. (1993). Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle. Routledge
Bendix, D., Franziska Müller and Aram Ziai (eds.) (2020). Beyond the Master’s Tools? Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods and Teaching. London: Rowman & Littlefield
Domingos, N., Peralta, E. (org.) (2013). Cidade e Império. Dinâmicas coloniais e reconfigurações pós-coloniais. Lisboa: Edições 70
Hankivsky, O., Jordan-Zachery, J. S. (eds.) (2019). The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Hooks, B. (2018). Não serei eu mulher? Orfeu Negro
Newman, K. (1999). No Shame in My Game, the working poor in the inner city. Vintage
Oliveira, N. (2020). Diversidade(s). Paradigmas, Modelos e Governança. Lisboa: Mundo
Peniche, A., Martins, B. S., Roldão, C., Louçã, F. (2020). Não Posso Ser Quem Somos? Identidades e Estratégia Política da Esquerda. Lisboa: Bertrand Editora

Teaching method

All sessions will be conducted by the professor and ocasional guest lecturers. All of the session will have a period for selected readings discussion. All students are expected to read the materials suggested by the professor.

Evaluation method

Evaluation Methodologies - Written essay(70%), participation in classroom debates(15%), text presentation(15%)

Subject matter

1. Mobilities and urban contexts 2. Colonialism, racialization and citizenships: city as border 3. center and periphery:immigration and the post-colonial 4. intersectionality as method and as policy 5. Managing diversity, Managing the city 6. Decolonizing categories 7. The politics of identity, culture and social movements