Social Work MA, Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Power 7,5 credits
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Syllabus:
Socialt arbete AV, Klass, Etnicitet, Genus och Makt, 7,5 hp
Social Work MA, Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Power 7,5 credits
General data
- Code: SA046A
- Subject/Main field: Social Work
- Cycle: Second cycle
- Credits: 7,5
- Progressive specialization: A1N - Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- Education area: Samhällsvetenskap 60%, Vård 40%
- Answerable faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences
- Answerable department: Psychology and Social Work
- Approved: 2021-03-30
- Date of change: 2023-09-13
- Version valid from: 2024-01-10
Aim
The course aims to help students acquire theoretical and methodological knowledge on ethnicity, gender and power and their intersectional relationships. The aim is to improve the ability to perform critical analysis and apply scientific methods that lead to improved critical and self-reflecting capability as well as improved anti-racist and emancipatory practices in social work.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, students shall demonstrate
- advanced knowledge of ethnicity and gender and power dimensions in various contexts as well as of how an intersectional analysis creates the conditions for complex understanding of power relationships.
- knowledge of the significance of post-structural, feminist and post-colonial knowledge theory traditions to understanding the consequences of various power relationships on discrimination and oppression.
- advanced ability to critically reflect on inequality-creating and discriminatory practices of language.
- scientific skills for applying anti-racist and emancipatory work methods in social work.
Content
The course provides advanced knowledge for analyses regarding ethnicity, gender and power with particular focus on how these power dimensions work together in various situations and contents, on a local, national and global level. Based on post-structural, feminist and post-colonial fields of knowledge, power relationships are problemized in theoretical and practical contexts in relation to social justice and social change work. Situated knowledge and self-reflection as well as inequality-creating and discriminatory practices of language are given particular attention.
Selection rules and procedures
The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.
Teaching form
Instruction is in the form of lectures and seminars.
Examination form
0020: Seminars, 2 Credits
Grade scale: Fail (U) or Pass (G)
Four seminars
0030: Written assisgnments, 1 Credits
Grade scale: Fail (U) or Pass (G)
Two written assisgnments
0040: Examination, 4.5 Credits
Grade scale: Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
The examiner has the right to offer alternative examination arrangements to students who have been granted the right to special support by Mid Sweden University’s disabilities adviser.
Grading system
Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
Course reading
Required literature
- Author: Viruell-Fuentes, E., Miranda, P., & Abdulrahim, S.
- Article title: More than culture: Structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health.
- Journal: 2012, 75(12), 2099-2106.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Social Science & Medicine
- Author: Pease, B. (2010)
- Title: Undoing Privilege. Unearned Advantage in a Divided World
- Publisher: Zed Books. (224 s)
- Author: Össbo, Åsa (2020)
- Article title: Från lappmarksplakat till anläggarsamhällen: Svensk bosättarkolonialism gentemot Sápmi.
- Journal: 2020, 140(3), 420–443.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Historisk Tidskrift
- Author: Ono, Erika
- Article title: Violence Against Racially Minoritized Women: Implications för Social Work
- Journal: 2013, 28(4), 458-467.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work
- Author: Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
- Article title: Under Western Eyes. Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.
- Journal: 1988, 30, 61-88.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Feminist Review
- Author: McKendrick, D., & Finch, J
- Article title: ‘Under Heavy Manners?’: Social Work, Radicalisation, Troubled Families and Non-Linear War.
- Journal: 2017, 47(2), 308-324.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: British Journal of Social Work
- URL: doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcv141
- Author: Mansfield, N. (2000)
- Title: Subjectivity. Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
- Publisher: New York University Press. New York. "Foucault: The subject and power" (s.51-78). "Subjectivity and ethnicity: Otherness, policy, visibility, colonialism" (s. 118-135).
- Author: Lundberg, A. & Werner, A. (2016)
- Title: En introduktion till genusvetenskapliga begrepp
- Publisher: Göteborg: Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning. "Feministiska studier av vetenskap" (s. 20-24) samt "Intersektionalitet" (s. 33-36)
- URL: https://www.genus.se/wp-content/uploads/En_introduktion_till_genusvetenskapliga_begrepp.pdf
- Author: Loomba, A. (2008)
- Title: Kolonialism/Postkolonialism: en introduktion till ett forskningsfält
- Edition: 1 eller 2
- Publisher: Stockholm: Tankekraft
- Author: Lewis, Gail
- Article title: Situated Voices. ‘Black women’s experience’ and social work
- Journal: 1996, 53, 24-56.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Feminist Review
- Author: Lauri, M.
- Article title: Mind your own business: Technologies for governing social worker subjects
- Journal: 2019, 22(2), 338-349.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: European Journal of Social Work
- Author: Jönsson, J H.
- Article title: ‘Beyond Empowerment: Changing local communities’
- Journal: International Social Work
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: 2010, 53(3), 393-406.
- Author: Haraway, Donna
- Article title: Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective.
- Journal: 1988, 14(3), 575-599.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Feminist Studies
- Author: Dominelli Lena
- Title: Anti-oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice.
- Edition: 2002, (211 s.)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Author: Brah, Avtar & Phoenix, Ann
- Article title: Ain’t I a Woman? Revisiting intersectionality.
- Journal: 2004, 5(3): 75-86.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Journal of International Women’s Studies
- Author: Ahmed, Sara
- Article title: Vithetens fenomenologi
- Journal: 2010, 1-2, 49-69.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
- URL: http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/tgv/article/view/778/717
- Author: Abu-Lughod, L.
- Article title: Do muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on Cultural relativism and its Others
- Journal: 2003, 104(3), 783-790.
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: American Anthroplogist