Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2420H1S L0101
Globalization, Gender and Development
Themes
Taking as the starting point the debt crisis of the early 1980s, explores the gendered impact of economic globalization. Special attention will be paid to the treatment of gender issues on the part of the major development institutions, particularly the World Bank, and to the various forms of political resistance and mobilization engaged in by women. The course will pay particular attention to regional contextual differences (Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East). The course will also explore in depth the perspectives of global south women, both academic and activist, on major development issues.
Texts
Reading Package
Format and Requirements
Seminar. A major research paper and class presentations.
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...