1 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 IGds Institute for Gender and Development Studies THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE CAMPUS INFORMATION BOOKLET 7th Edition Revised 2010/2011 NOTE TO THE READER This handbook is designed to provide general information on the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the St. Augustine Campus, and on programmes and courses offered by the Institute. It is not meant to replace any other University reference or Faculty documentation, but should be read in conjunction with these. Although the information contained in this publication is accurate at the time of printing, there may be amendments to the courses and programmes offered . The Institute reserves the right to make such changes as required. IGDS signage, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, 2010 2 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................3 IGDS UWI, Cave Hill, Mona and St. Augustine – Our Mission and Our Objectives ..........................................................................................3 Principal Officers of The University of the West Indies ............................................................................................................................................4 IGDS Staff – St. Augustine Unit Staff and Associate Staff ........................................................................................................................................5 Welcome to the IGDS St. Augustine and The Ideal IGDS Graduate .....................................................................................................................6 Background ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Meet Our Staff .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Meet Our Students ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 TEACHING ........................................................................................................................................................11 OVERVIEW ...............................................................................................................................................................................11 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME ............................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Minor in Gender Studies – Faculty of Humanities and Education ................................................................................................ 12 Minor in Gender and Development – Faculty of Social Sciences...................................... ............................................................. 13 List of Undergraduate Courses .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................14 Joint Courses with other Faculties ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 FHE, Department of Liberal Arts ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 FHE, Film Programme .................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 FHE, Department of History ........................................................................................................................................................................ 17 FSS, Department of Behavioural Sciences ............................................................................................................................................. 18 FSA, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension ........................................................................................................... 19 FSA, Department of Life Sciences ............................................................................................................................................................. 19 GRADUATE PROGRAMME .................................................................................................................................. 20 Postgraduate Diploma in Gender and Development ........................................................................................................................ 20 M.Sc. Programme in Gender and Development .................................................................................................................................. 21 M.Phil. Programme in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.................................................................................................................... 22 Ph.D. Programme in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies ....................................................................................................................... 23 List of Graduate Courses .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................24 NON-DEGREE PROGRAMMES............................................................................................................................ 27 DISTANCE LEARNING ..................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Diploma in Gender and Development Studies – The Open Campus ......................................................................................... 27 The Summer Institute in Gender and Development – Cave Hill Campus .................................................................................. 27 ST AUGUSTINE CAMPUS ............................................................................................................................................................... 28 Specialised Summer Courses ..................................................................................................................................................................... 28 RESEARCH .......................................................................................................................................................29 Regional Research Programme .................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 St. Augustine Campus Research Programmes ......................................................................................................................................................... 30 Individual Staff Research – St. Augustine Campus ................................................................................................................................................. 34 International Collaborations ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Contract Research .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 38 OUTREACH ......................................................................................................................................................41 Documentation Centre ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 IGDS at the DSpace at the Main Library UWI St. Augustine ................................................................................................................................ 41 Events and Artistic Productions .................................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Screenings ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Lunchtime Seminar Series ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 43 Special Public Lectures .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 Workshops, Seminars, Conferences ............................................................................................................................................................................. 45 PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................................47 CRGS – Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (Online Journal) ........................................................................................................................ 47 Audio Visual Publications ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Book Publications by IGDS Staff ................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 IGDS Print Publications .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS ........................................................................................................................................... 51 CONTACT INFORMATION ................................................................................................................................................. 51 IGDS PROMOTIONAL ITEMS ............................................................................................................................................ 52 Complete list of Undergraduate Programmes, Courses and Codes ................................................................................................................ 55 Complete list of Graduate Programmes, Courses and Codes ............................................................................................................................ 56 3 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 UWI, St. Augustine Campus grounds IGds The Institute for Gender and Development Studies, U.W.I. Cave Hill, Mona and St. Augustine Our Mission The Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, is committed to a programme of teaching, research and outreach which: (a) Questions historically accepted and contemporary theories and explanations about society and human behaviour; (b) Seeks an understanding of the world which takes women and men, their lives and achievements into account; (c) Examines the origins of power differences between and amongst men and women, and the division of human characteristics along gender lines. Gender and other related factors are used as tools of analysis in the generation and reconstruction of knowledge, to inform the programme and act as catalysts for change. Our Objectives 1. To develop an integrated, interdisciplinary programme of gender studies within the University, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This includes facilitating the incorporation of gender analysis into all disciplines. 2. To produce and disseminate knowledge based on the generation and analysis of research data on women, men and/ or gender-related issues in the Caribbean. 3. To establish and maintain linkages with national, regional and international institutions concerned with Gender and Development, provide advisory services, influence policy directions and assist with capacity building in these institutions. 4 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 View of renovated Administration building, UWI, St. Augustine, 2010 Principal Officers of The University of the West Indies CHANCELLOR Professor The Hon. Sir George Alleyne OCC, MD, FRCP, FACP (Hon),DSc (Hon) (UWI) VICE-CHANCELLOR The Hon. E. Nigel Harris MPhil, MD, DM CHAIRMEN, CAMPUS COUNCILS Sir Neville Nicholls - Cave Hill KA, BA Cantab, LLB Lond, Dip in Diplomacy Col, Hon. LLD UWI Dr. Marshall Hall - Mona CD, BSc Col, PhD Wis Mr. Ewart Williams – St. Augustine CA, MBA W.Ont Sir Dwight Venner - Open Campus KBE, CBE, BSc, MSc UWI CAMPUS PRINCIPALS Prof. Hilary McDonald Beckles - Cave Hill BA, PhD Hull Professor Gordon Shirley - Mona BSc UWI, MBA, DBA Harv Professor Clement K. Sankat - St. Augustine BSc (UWI), MSc (UWI), PhD (Guelph), FIAgrE, CEng, FAPETT Professor Hazel Simmons-Mc Donald - Open Campus BA, Dip. Ed. UWI, MA Ling, MA Dev. Ed, PhD. Stanford PRO-VICE CHANCELLORS Professor Wayne Hunte - Cave Hill BSc UWI, PhD UWI, Post Doctoral Fellow Dalhousie, Canada Professor Ronald Young - Mona BSc, MSc UWI,PhD St. And Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie BA Northwestern, MA Chicago, PhD Penn Professor Alvin Wint - St. Augustine BSc UWI, MBA Northwestern, DBA HarvPhD Amsterdam, The Netherlands DEPUTY CAMPUS PRINCIPALS Professor Eudine Barriteau - Cave Hill (F) BSc UWI, MPA NYU, PhD Howard Mr. Joseph Pereira - Mona BA, Dip Ed UWI, MA Qu Professor Rhoda Reddock - St. Augustine BSc (UWI), MSc (The Hague), PhD Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr. Vivienne Roberts - Open Campus BSc, Dip Ed UWI, MSEd Tenn, PhD UWI UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR Mr. C.William Iton BSc UWI, LLM Essex UNIVERSITY BURSAR Mr. Archibald Campbell BSc Lond-UCWI, FCCA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Ms. Jennifer Joseph B.A. UWI; Dip. Lib. UWI; M.Sc. Columbia; Dip. HR Management, UWI Principal Officers of The St. Augustine Campus CAMPUS PRINCIPAL Professor Clement K. Sankat BSc (UWI), MSc (UWI), PhD (Guelph), FIAgrE, CEng, FAPETT DEPUTY CAMPUS PRINCIPAL Professor Rhoda Reddock BSc (UWI), MSc (The Hague), PhD Amsterdam, The Netherlands CAMPUS REGISTRAR Mr. Jeremy Callaghan BA York, MA Reading CAMPUS BURSAR Ms. Carla Dubé BBA (Accounting) Simon Fraser University, British Colum CAMPUS LIBRARIAN Ms. Jennifer Joseph B.A. UWI; Dip. Lib. UWI; M.Sc. Columbia; Dip. HR Management, UWI DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL OFFICE Mr. Sharan Singh B.Sc. Whittier, MBA Nova Southeastern U., MA U. of Miami. 5 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 The IGDS Board of Studies meets in the IGDS Seminar Room, 2010 ACADEMIC STAFF Prof. Patricia Mohammed Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies BA, MSc (UWI), PhD (ISS, The Hague, The Netherlands) Prof. Jane Parpart Graduate Studies Coordinator BA (Brown University) MA PhD (Boston University) Dr. Piya Pangsapa Head BA (SUNY Albany), MA (Brandeis), PhD (SUNY Binghamton) Dr. Gabrielle Hosein Lecturer, BA (University of Toronto), M.Phil (UWI), PhD (UCL) Ms. Jeanne Roach-Baptiste Instructor BA MA English (Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey) Ms. Deborah McFee Outreach and Research Officer BA (UWI), MA, (ISS, The Hague, Netherlands) Ms. Tisha Nickenig Project Coordinator Gender, Sexuality & HIV Research Project BA (Pennsylvania State University) MPH (Drexel University) Ms. Donna Drayton Research Assistant Publications BA (FAU, USA), MPhil (UWI) Ms. Tessa Ottley Documentalist BA Keele University, MSc (UWI) Ms. Kathryn Chan Research Assistant BFA (Carnegie-Mellon University) PostGrad Fellowship (Harvard University) Ms. Shelley Santiago Research Assistant BA (Hons) York University Keshan Latchman Research Assistant BSc (UWI) ADMINISTRATIVE Ms. Avril Patterson-Pierre Administrative Assistant BA (Heriot-Watt University) Ms. Suelan Chin-Colai Clerical Assistant BSc (UWI) Ms. Shahzadi Khan Clerical Assistant Dip RSA, Colchester Institute Ms. Susan Jacelon Office Assistant ASSOCIATE STAFF Rev. Dr. Edward T. Bermingham BD (Heythrop, London), MA (Manchester), PhD (Manchester) Regional Seminary Prof. Bridget Brereton BA (UWI), MA (Toronto), PhD (UWI), Department of History Dr. Beverly-Anne Carter Les L, Les FLE, MESL (Univ of Besancon, France), PhD (UWI), Department of Liberal Arts / Director Centre for Language Learning Dr. David Dolly BSc (UWI), MSc (Wis), PhD (UWI), Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Dr. Paula Morgan BA, MPhil, PhD (UWI), Diploma TESOL, Head, Department of Liberal Arts / Cultural Studies Programme Prof. David Plummer MBBS (Monash) PhD (AWU) FRCPA Dr. Sandra Reid MBBS (UWI), DM (Psychiatry) (UWI), MPhil (John Hopkins), Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences Dr. Nicole Roberts BA (Queen’s Univ), MA (Florida State), PhD (Birmingham UK), Department of Liberal Arts Prof. Rhoda Reddock BSc (UWI), MSc (The Hague), PhD Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deputy Campus Principal Dr. Grace Sirju-Charran MSc (UWI), PhD (UWI), Department of Life Sciences Dr. Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw MA, PhD (Boston University), Department of Liberal Arts Prof. Valerie Youssef BA (Reading), MA (American University in Cairo), PhD (UWI), Department of Liberal Arts IGDS Staff St. Augustine Unit The Institute achieves its research, teaching and outreach mandate through a core staff, temporary tutors as well as Associate and other staff. Members of staff are both full time and parttime. The Institute recently expanded its full time academic staff establishment and expects to further expand its administrative and support base. Associate Staff come from the various faculties and departments and support the work of the Institute through involvement in teaching and/or research in gender-related areas. 6 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 The IGDS Board of Studies meets in the IGDS Seminar Room, 2010 Welcome to the IGDS at St. Augustine The Institute for Gender and Development Studies is founded on the understanding that social, cultural and historical processes have constructed and reproduced unequal gender relations within society. The Institute emphasises scholarship and teaching that is broadly comparative and recognises that gender is a fundamental category of analysis in all disciplines. The work of the Institute is three-fold, comprising teaching, research and outreach. Our Institute employs a broad range of theoretical approaches and methods that help students to think critically and synthetically about the multiple axes of power through which gender identities and practices are constructed and challenged. The intellectual goal of the IGDS is to develop new approaches to knowledge creation and social scientific inquiry that will inform our teaching, research, institutional and community practices. As an interdisciplinary programme IGDS offers a wide range of courses that use the lens of gender to examine issues such as globalisation, history, political science, literature, popular culture, feminist theory, development, sexuality studies, race and ethnicity, environmental studies, policy, governance, law, cultural studies, philosophy and economics. The IGDS has introduced a comprehensive revised graduate programme that emphasises synergies and collegiality in a challenging interdisciplinary environment. Students now have the opportunity to pursue a Post-graduate Diploma in Gender and Development; a Master of Science in Gender and Development as well as MPhil / PhD Degrees in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. As one of the most vibrant programmes at UWI we look back with pride on what we have achieved in such a short span of existence. The Institute celebrated its 15th anniversary In 2008/2009. We look to the future with enthusiasm and confidence as we continue to engage in dialogue and research in the quest for a just and equitable society for all. The Ideal IGDS Graduate The ideal IGDS graduate will have a desire for knowledge, strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, competence in interdisciplinary gender analysis, and the ability to apply theory to policy and to everyday practices. The graduate will be actively committed to social justice, valuing both diversity and collaboration. The graduate will also understand that evaluating gender difference is central to self- awareness and a commitment to the transformation of unequal power relations. 7 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Dr. Piya Pangsapa, Head IGDS, St. Augustine, Prof. Patricia Mohammed, Campus Co-ordinator School for Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Violet Eudine Barriteau, Deputy Principal, UWI Cave Hill, Prof. Jane Parpart, IGDS Graduate Studies Coordinator, Prof Rhoda Reddock, Deputy Principal, UWI St. Augustine Background The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) has its origins in the work of the Women and Development Studies Groups (WDSG) at The University of the West Indies. The Women and Development Studies Groups were established on all three campuses of The University of the West Indies in 1982. This was a direct result of a regional meeting called by Peggy Antrobus of the Women and Development Unit (WAND), the UWI. WAND was established in 1978. The 1982 meeting coordinated by Joycelin Massiah was itself prompted by the outcome of the “Women in the Caribbean Research Project” , which was carried out by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (I.S.E.R.), (Cave Hill) between 1979 and 1982. In 1986, a Project of Co-operation in Teaching and Research in Women and Development Studies was initiated between the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) at The Hague, The Netherlands and The University of the West Indies. In September 1993 the project realised its goal with the establishment of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies (original name) at The University of the West Indies with units on all three campuses. The Centre, now called the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, is regional in scope with a Regional Coordinating Unit located on the UWI Mona Campus, Jamaica and headed by Professor the Hon. Barbara Bailey, O.J. The Institute is an autonomous unit, located in the Office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Regional Coordinating Unit reports to the Vice Chancellor, while each campus unit reports to its Campus Principal. The work of each of the IGDS units is overseen by its campus Board of Studies. Members of the Board are drawn from all faculties, the Main Library, the Guild of Students, and the WDSG. The Board reports to the Campus Academic Board, the Campus Principal and the Regional Coordinator’s Office. Teaching programmes, courses, research and outreach programmes are carried out independently, or in collaboration with associate staff from other faculties and departments. In keeping with the Institute’s philosophical underpinnings, programmes may be disciplinary, multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary. The use of interactive, participatory methodologies and modes of delivery are especially encouraged. The Institute’s work is very much grounded in the realities and challenges that face women and men. Our research reflects these foci as we continue to search for answers in the constant effort towards a more equitable and just society. In addition to our academic offerings, the Institute, on the St. Augustine Campus, has a strong outreach programme and prides itself on its other achievements and activities. A major event is the Institute’s annual artistic production in celebration of International Women’s Day. These productions take place in March each year and have become part of the University’s annual calendar of events. The IGDS, in its relatively short history, has built up an enviable record of scholarship, publications and outreach. Additionally, it has provided consultancy services to a range of international, regional and national organisations and institutions. Along with its responsibilities for teaching and research, the Institute, as part of the UWI, accepts its responsibility for public service to the community of Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean region. 8 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Meet Our Staff Ms. Avril Patterson-Pierre Administrative Assistant Ms. Suelan Chin-Colai Clerical Assistant Ms. Shahzadi Khan Clerical Assistant Ms. Susan Jacelon Office Assistant 9 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Dr. Piya Pangsapa Prof. Patricia Mohammed Prof. Jane Parpart Head, IGDS, St. Augustine Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies Graduate Studies Coordinator Dr. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein Ms. Jeanne Roach-Baptiste Ms. Deborah McFee Lecturer Instructor Outreach and Research Officer Ms. Donna Drayton Ms. Tessa Ottley Ms. Shelley Santiago Research Assistant Publications Documentalist Research Assistant Ms. Tisha Nickenig Ms. Kathryn Chan Keshan Latchman Project Coordinator Research Assistant Research Assistant Gender, Sexuality & HIV Research Project Gender, Sexuality & HIV Research Project 10 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 First year Gender Studies students participate in Popular Actions at the Quadrangle, UWI, St. Augustine Meet Our Students A degree in Gender and Development Studies/ Interdisciplinary Gender Studies opens many diverse possibilities for future employment. The IGDS academic programme introduces students to relevant global, regional and national development issues; fosters critical thinking; develops strong verbal, writing and research skills, and encourages social advocacy. Increasingly international organisations, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organisations, colleges and universities are seeking to hire specialists in Gender Studies. Michael Francis Grandison (Mr.) MSc Student Gender and Development Studies UWI St. Augustine Campus WHY GENDER STUDIES? It is rooted in a clear understanding that like slavery and racism, misogyny in all its manifestations is a humanly constructed evil. Similarly, gender biases permeate all facets of human relations and need to be challenged. The Institute for Gender and Development Studies includes academic and activist work that provides a space for understanding and transforming the world in ways that enhance gender equality and social justice. I have been able to combine my background in Theology with teachings from Gender Studies and other research disciplines such as Agriculture, Life Sciences and Economics. What I have learned from these interactions is that gender is a living and permeating discourse. Its mantra is to influence gender mainstreaming, equity and equality from wherever one is based because human lives, especially those of women and children, are affected by plans and policies coming out from all disciplines and faculties. Imagine what could happen, in terms of human socio-political and economic relations, if planners and policy makers performed their duties using gender and perhaps feminist lenses. What a great and just world it will be, when the Lamb and the Lion move in harmony. I continue to be drawn into the light of gender studies with the hope that one day the dream will become a reality; that men and women will be treated as equals and will work as one for the common good of all. Raquel LM Sukhu (Ms.) PhD. Candidate Gender and Development Studies UWI St. Augustine Campus A Trinidad national, I attended Naparima Girls’ High School and completed my undergraduate degree at UWI, St. Augustine. I was first drawn to the study of gender when I pursued courses in development as part of my bachelor degree in Sociology and as a result chose to enroll in the elective, SY37G Sex, Gender and Society, taught by then Head of the Centre, Professor Rhoda Reddock. My personal experience as a survivor of domestic violence drew me in further as I began to see the relevance of gendered analysis to the study of domestic violence. I completed the MPhil in 2006, which I approached from the less sought out perspective of the male batterer. I found great support and a sense of belonging at the Centre. I am currently pursuing a doctorate at the Institute, this time focusing on women and their relationship to the supernatural. I occasionally speak publicly on domestic violence, and I believe that I can make my most significant contribution to society by working in the field of education, teaching and conducting research, fostering gender equity by the dissemination of information through public education. I feel passionately, that a peaceful, equitable future can be achieved by promoting gender equity, through education, to societies’ youths. 11 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 A first year Gender Studies student participates in Popular Actions on campus, 2009 teaCHInG OVERVIEW Undergraduate Programmes In its interdisciplinary teaching programme, the Institute forfers undergraduate courses through various departments and faculties on the St. Augustine campus. It offers a Minor in Gender Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education and a Minor in Gender and Development in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Each of these programmes is available to students of the relevant faculties and in most instances, to students of other faculties or departments as well. Graduate Programmes The Institute forfers a range of interdisciplinary post-graduate programmes. These attract a diverse intake of students who bring different areas of expertise and knowledge to seminars, courses and research projects. The programmes cater to the multi-faceted needs of the graduate client base and include an advanced postgraduate diploma, an M.Sc by coursework and research project and a research based research-based M.Phil/ Ph.D. DIRECT ENTRY: Students who are with the UWI Programme and who may wish to move from one programme to another may apply directly to any of the graduate programmes offered. (NB. Where there is a difference in fees along with a change in programme, the shortfall must be borne by the student.) Non Degree Programmes and Specialised Summer Courses Programmes in Gender Studies are available at The Institute by distance learning through the Open Campus and at the Cave Hill Campus. The St. Augustine campus offers two specialised summer courses —Doing Ethnography: The Poetics and Politics of Qualitative Research; and the Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge. Also at our St. Augustine campus, through our outreach work, we offer a number of short workshops and seminars. See list of recent workshops, seminars and conferences in the Outreach section later in this booklet. Registration Do consult with staff (your academic advisor) at the Institute prior to registering on Banner. Ensure that you use the GEND-code if the course is to be used for the Minor in Gender Studies. GEND codes have been assigned to Social Sciences and Humanities courses in the Minor. NOTE the requirements for the minor in Gender Studies is fifteen (15) advanced credits which include six (6) core credits. Please ensure that you have registered for the required courses. Check the IGDS notice board for Academic Staff hours. Course Codes Explanation of codes in tables on following pages. OTHER FACULTY/ DEPARTMENT CODE IGDS CODE GEND– – – – FOXPRO CODE (For admin use only.) COURSE TITLE N/A — Not Applicable Please note that courses which count towards the Minor in Gender Studies / Minor in Gender and Development have now been listed with a GEND code. If they are being selected for a Minor in Gender Studies or a Minor in Gender and Development, please use the GEND code when registering on Banner. See the tables on the following pages, for the cross-listed codes for other faculties and departments. 12 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES Minor in Gender Studies – 15 Credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION A Minor in Gender Studies can be read in the Faculty of Humanities and Education. The Minor consists of five courses (3 credits each) and comprises the following: One Recommended Pre-requisite N/A GEND 1103 AR11C Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge Two Core Courses N/A GEND 2203 AR22C Feminist Theoretical Frameworks SOCI 3031 GEND 3031 SY37G Sex, Gender and Society: Sociological Perspectives Three Gender-Related Courses In addition to these two core courses, students must choose three other approved gender related courses from among the following: N/A GEND 2013 AR20M Men and Masculinities in the Caribbean SOCI 2025 GEND 2025 Women and Work in the Global Economy AGEX 3003 GEND 3004 AX39A Gender Issues in Agriculture LITS 3702 GEND 3704 E37B African-American Women Writers LITS 2107 GEND 2107 E21G African Diaspora Women’s Narrative LITS 2502 GEND 2504 E25M Caribbean Women Writers FREN 2608 GEND 2608 F26H French Caribbean Women Writers HIST 3003 GEND 3003 H30C Women and Gender in the History of the English-Speaking Caribbean LING 2501 GEND 2503 L25A Language, Gender, and Sex GENS 3260 GEND 3260 NS21B Gender and Science SPAN 2604 GEND 2604 S26D Women in Hispanic Literature N/A GEND 3501 N/A Philosophy of Gender N/A GEND 3502 N/A Philosophy of Gender in Caribbean Thought SOCI 3039 GEND 3039 N/A Gender and Development with Reference to Caribbean Society SOCI 3038 GEND 3038 N/A Gender, Ethnicity and Class: Issues of Identity, Nation and Citizenship N/A GEND 3001 N/A Gender, Violence and Trauma in Discourse FILM 2101 GEND 2104 N/A Cinema and Gender Or from any other approved gender-based courses. Please note that all courses may not be offered each year. First year Gender Studies students participate in Popular Actions on campus, 2009 13 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Minor in Gender and Development – 15 Credits FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES This minor is being offered in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Fifteen credits from level II and level III courses are required for this minor – three core courses and two elective courses. One Recommended Pre-requisite N/A GEND1103 AR11C Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge Three Core Courses N/A GEND 2203 AR22C Feminist Theoretical Frameworks SOCI3039 GEND 3039 SY27D Gender and Development with Reference to Caribbean Society SOCI3031 GEND 3031 SY37G Sex, Gender and Society: Sociological Perspectives Two Elective Courses In addition to these three core courses, students must select two elective courses from the following: N/A GEND 2013 AR20M Men and Masculinities in the Caribbean SOCI 2025 GEND 2025 Women and Work in the Global Economy SOCI3020 SY35C Social Policy and Administration III AGEX3003 GEND 3004 AX39A Gender Issues in Agriculture HIST3003 GEND 3003 H30C Women and Gender in the History of the English Speaking Caribbean LING2501 N/A L25A Language, Gender and Sex GENS3260 GEND 3260 NS21B Gender and Science SOCI3038 GEND 3038 N/A Gender, Ethnicity and Class: Issues of Identity, Nation and Citizenship N/A GEND 3501 N/A Philosophy of Gender N/A GEND 3502 N/A Philosophy of Gender in Caribbean Thought Or any other approved gender–related course. Please note that all courses may not be offered every year. IGDS staff, students, representatives from NGOs and CBOs and the general public participate in a workshop entitled, Understanding the Woman’s Role in a Sustainable Environment, organized by the student group, Consciousness Raising, at the “People’s Summit” on campus, 2009 14 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 LIST OF UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Joint Courses with other Faculties Level I Semester I N/A GEND 1103 AR11C Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge 3 Credits This course aims: • To introduce students to the field and to feminism, which can be defined as a conscious opposition to gender hierarchies; • To untangle the complex web of oppression and privileges based on race, class, gender and sexual orientation in order to understand their impact on the wider society; • To celebrate women’s struggles for autonomy and empowerment; • To examine men’s responses to women’s movements and the ways in which women’s subordination negatively affects men; • To use all the skills available to us: observation, speaking, reading and listening critically in an effort to work together in an environment of active learning • It is a recommended pre-requisite course for the Minor in Gender Studies and highly recommended for the Minor in Gender and Development Studies. Level II Semester I N/A GEND 2203 AR22C Feminist Theoretical Frameworks 3 Credits The course provides students with an enhanced theoretical approach to women’s and gender studies. Feminist Theory attempts not only to describe the present condition of women and men but also to present ways of understanding this and to prescribe methods to change that condition towards the elimination of gender, race, class and sexual hierarchies. Reading a variety of theoretical materials, the class will examine several theoretical approaches to feminism and evaluate each theory’s effectiveness in explaining reality and in facilitating change locally and globally. Students will emerge from this course of study with a comprehension of the many faces of feminism and a better understanding and grasp of their convictions regarding some of today’s most challenging debates. This is a core course for the Minors in Gender Studies and Gender and Development Studies. Level II Semester II N/A GEND 2013 AR20M Men and Masculinities in the Caribbean 3 Credits This course aims to develop an awareness of the main issues involved in the study of men and masculinities. Masculinity studies emerged in response to the feminist discourses on women, femininity and gender. There is now a growing and significant body of knowledge both internationally and in the Caribbean. This course will explore approaches to the study of men and masculinities and identify key concepts and issues for in-depth consideration. Graduate students attend a seminar in the IGDS Seminar Room 15 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Level III Semester I N/A GEND 3501 N/A Philosophy of Gender 3 Credits Pre-Requisites: GEND2203 (AR22C) or any Introduction to Philosophy course This course aims to provide students with tools for critical thinking and analysis and engages in philosophical discussions about the relationships between one’s gender and society. It asks the questions - What kind of society do we want to create? What are we saying about the roles, responsibilities and relationships between men and women in society that make for a more equitable distribution of labour, power and privilege? Why should we aim to build societies in which equality and justice of gender, race and class, are the cornerstones of our civilization? This course will engage students in a feminist critique of western thought and knowledge, equipping them with the tools and concepts to guide, analyse and challenge you to consider the ethical and moral dilemmas abounding in the contemporary world we inhabit. While exposing you to the universal and generic issues raised in all human philosophy, the material of this course and particularly that in the sister course GEND 3502 is grounded in Caribbean reality. Level III Semester II N/A GEND 3502 N/A Philosophy of Gender in Caribbean Thought 3 Credits Pre-Requisites: GEND2203 (AR22C) or any Introduction to Philosophy Course This course examines contemporary issues in the Caribbean in light of feminist epistemology and ontology and traces and evaluates the development of feminisms, in general, and Caribbean feminisms in particular. At the end of the course students should be able to critically analyse the ways in which Caribbean feminist discourses have accounted for the experience of women across categories of race, ethnicity and socio-economic class; identify the areas in epistemology in which gender has not been sufficiently addressed and evaluate the potential of Caribbean feminist movement for transformation. Level III Semester II N/A GEND 3001 N/A Gender, Violence and Trauma in Discourse 3 Credits Pre-requisites: any of the following: LITS 1002 (E10B); LITS1001 (E10A); LING1005 (L10C); LING2501 (L25A); or LING2404 (L24D) This course develops students’ understandings of the current theoretical perspectives on trauma and discourse and equips them with the tools to apply these perspectives to a range of primary material associated with gender violence and its traumatic repercussions. The primary material is drawn from literary, media and institutional discourses and personal narratives. First year Gender Studies students participate in Popular Actions on campus, 2009 16 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION Department of Liberal Arts Level II Semester I LITS2107 GEND2107 E21G African Diaspora Women’s Narrative 3 Credits Pre-requisite: E10B – Introduction to Prose Fiction This course entails, through the detailed analysis of selected texts, a cross-cultural study of African, Caribbean and African-American narrative by women. Level II Semester I FREN2608 GEND2608 F26H French Caribbean Women Writers 3 Credits Pre-requisite: Normal passes in F150: Introduction to Literature in French. This course provides a critical examination of the narrative techniques and thematic concerns of women writers from the French-speaking Caribbean. This course will focus on the works of Edwidge Danticat, Yannick Lahens, and Gisèle Pineau. Level II Semester I (Open to Social Science Students) LING2501 GEND2503 L25A Language, Gender, and Sex 3 Credits Pre-requisite: LING005 (L10C), LING1001 (L10A) and LING1002 (L10B) (Strongly preferred but not compulsory) This course focuses on the relationship between gender as a social phenomenon and language and investigates some of the theoretical frameworks through which it has been studied, especially during the last three decades. It also examines the contexts in which these frameworks were originally generated. Linguistic gender is also considered to assess how far it relates to socio-cultural bias in specific communities. Level II Semester I SPAN 2604 GEND 2604 S26D Women in Hispanic Literature 3 Credits Pre-requisite: Spanish Language (S15A), Introduction to Spanish Literature - Prose, Poetry, Drama (S160) This course aims to encourage students to read critically, selected writings from within and from outside the canon and to contrast this with the image of women traditionally offered in Latin American Literature. The course will examine the work of female writers in the light of feminist concerns in relation to traditional Latin American “machismo”, and more generally, to social and political issues. Hanna Klien presents her research, The reception of contemporary Hindi film in the Caribbean: Imagining female subject positions on local and global scales, at an IGDS lunchtime seminar in the seminar room 17 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Level II Semester II LITS2502 GEND2504 E25M Caribbean Women Writers 3 Credits Pre- requisite: E10 B – Introduction to Prose Fiction This course analyses the writings of women from various Caribbean territories. The exploration of novels, short fiction, poetry and personal narratives will be complemented by essays by and about Caribbean women. The course begins by exploring the emergence and themes of the Caribbean women writers and includes a module on Indo-Caribbean Women Writers. The literary texts will be studied with reference to their social, political, ethnic and cultural contexts. The course will require close textual reading of the primary material, as well as a comparative approach to the various texts. Level III Semester I LITS 3702 GEND 3704 E37B African-American Women Writers 3 Credits Pre-requisite: E37A African American Literature This course offers an intensive study of the work of four African-American women writers, concentrating on elements of race, class and gender, and attempting to identify the inherent characteristics of this body of literature. It consists of one three-hour seminar per week or, if this is not practicable, one two-hour seminar and one tutorial per week instead. Film Programme Level II Semester II FILM 2101 GEND 2104 Cinema and Gender 3 Credits This course focuses on the development of the gendered ‘gaze’. While the films analysed in this course will be drawn from international cinema, the course will pay particular attention to the portrayal of masculinity and femininity in popular international films on the Caribbean as well as those made in the Caribbean by Caribbean filmmakers. Cinema in this course also incorporates the media of television. Students will be encouraged to explore issues both through the textual analysis of individual films and through consideration of wider feminist debates concerning the production and consumption of popular cultural forms. Students will be expected to view films, read and present the ideas from the course literature, learn to do gendered reviews of films and produce a short visual narrative that explores a problematic of gender. This course will also satisfy a requirement for Gender and Development major & minors. Department of History Level III Semester I HIST 3003 GEND 3003 H30C Women and Gender in the History of the English-Speaking Caribbean 3 Credits Pre-requisite: Any level II course in Caribbean History (except FD11A/FD11B) Students must have completed at least one level II course in Caribbean History in order to be eligible for this course. The course covers the problems, issues and theoretical aspects of women, gender and history; gender and women’s historical experience in the Caribbean during the era of slavery and colonization (1490-1830s); Afro-Caribbean women after slavery; the historical experience of Indo-Caribbean women and of minority women in the period 1838-1918; women in labour and political struggles, 1918-1970s; employment, demography, family structures, migration in the 20th century; biographical case studies e.g. Mary Seacole, Audrey Jeffers, Edna Manley, Elma Francois, Amy Bailey, Phyllis Shand Alfrey, Nita Barrow, Eugenia Charles. First year Gender Studies students participate in Popular Actions on campus, 2009 18 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Department of Behavioural Sciences Level II Semester II SOCI 2025 GEND 2025 Women and Work in the Global Economy 3 Credits Pre-requisite: none This course introduces students to the study of women, work and social change in developing countries, focusing on women workers in labour-intensive manufacturing jobs, issues related to women’s work in the Caribbean in relation to the changing global trade environment, and the situation of migrant workers and women engaged in other formal and informal sectors of the global economy. Level III Semester I SOCI 3039 GEND 3039 Gender and Development with Reference to Caribbean Society 3 Credits Pre-requisite: none Prior Gender course or Development course is recommended. This course examines the emergence of the field of women and gender and development since its emergence in the 1970s, its agenda and theoretical and policy debates. The feminist critique of ‘development’ is examined as well as the social, political and economic aspects of gender relations and how they interface with processes of development. The course also provides an introduction to tools for gender analysis which are used for planning and to influence policy decisions. Level III Semester II SOCI 3031 GEND 3031 SY37G Sex, Gender and Society: Sociological Perspectives 3 Credits Pre-requisites: SY13E (Introduction to Sociology I) or SY13F (Introduction to Sociology II) or GEND1103 (AR11C) (Introduction to Women’s Studies). The course critically examines the sociological tradition and feminism. It reviews the biological, anthropological and social psychological approaches to the origins of sex differences and analyses the changes in the sexual division of labour in human history. The course attempts to examine the significance of sex, gender and sexuality in controlling and ordering society. Level III Semester II GEND 3038 Gender, Ethnicity and Class: Issues of Identity, Nation and Citizenship 3 Credits Pre-requisites: Any of the following: FOUN 1101; SOCI1002; HIST3001; HIST3002; HIST3003; HIST3005; HIST3601; SOCI3029 (SY36F); GEND2203 (AR22C) This course seeks to raise the level of discourse on ‘race’ and ethnic relations in our societies and establish the centrality of gender to issues of ‘race’, ethnicity and culture. At the end of this course the student should be more familiar with the historical background to contemporary relations and have a better understanding of the ways in which women and men are differently located within the discourse on race and class in the region. It is hoped that this course will contribute to a more informed approach to inter-ethnic and gender relations in the region. This course is intended for senior undergraduates and should be open to students from a range of faculties. Some knowledge of sociology would be an asset. IGDS students and staff, CAFRA members and the general public participate in the CAFRA March for International Day Against Violence Against Women, UWI Campus, November 2009 19 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Level III Semester II SOCI 3020 SY35C Social Policy and Administration III 3 Credits Pre-requisite: SY13E (Introduction to Sociology I)and SY13F (Introduction to Sociology II) or SW17A and SW17B Sub-theme: Social Planning This course is designed to empower social development workers to actively improve policy and planning skills. Course content covers social planning practice and current trends as gender planning, community care, sustainable development; and technical skills such as the preparation of appraisals and evaluations. FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Level III Semester I AGEX 3003 GEND 3004 AX39A Gender Issues in Agriculture 3 Credits This is an elective course which seeks to develop an awareness of and stimulate interest in research into the gender issues that influence agricultural development. It also seeks to introduce students to gender issues related to the continued development of agriculture within the tropical agricultural environment; to develop analytical skills in the conduct of gender analyses among families; to develop critical thinking in the area of gender roles, relations and functions and to understand new feminist scholarship and concepts of masculinity. No major understanding of agricultural specialist disciplines is necessary. Department of Life Sciences Level II Semester II GENS 3260 GEND 3260 NS21B Gender and Science 4 Credits Prerequisite: Successful completion of level I credits. This course aims to give breadth to the narrow range of disciplines/perspectives to which students majoring in Science are currently exposed. They would then be better able to situate their own discipline in the context of other disciplines and in society as a whole. Through a critical analysis of selected major papers on Gender and Scientific Inquiry published from the 1980s to the present, students will be exposed to the History and Philosophy of Science beginning from the 16th Century (Bacon and Descartes) and will be able to explore the different ways in which prevailing gender ideology (one of many analytical tools) has influenced the form, content and production of scientific knowledge in various historical periods. Attempts will be made to situate the materials in a Caribbean (colonial and post-colonial context). The audience at the IGDS public lecture, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, by Prof. Violet Eudine Barriteau, November 2010, marking the close of the 15th Anniversary celebrations of the CGDS, St. Augustine unit 20 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 GRADUATE PROGRAMMES St. Augustine Campus Pre-requisites Students wishing to enter a graduate programme may need to complete qualifying courses if they do not have a UWI Minor in Gender Studies / Gender and Development Studies, a relevant complement of courses or other similar qualification from another university. Qualifying courses would include core theory courses from among the following: Feminist Theoretical Frameworks• Philosophy of Gender I• Sex, Gender and Society• Gender and Development with Reference to the Caribbean• Other courses relevant for the specific research interest of the student may also be required. Postgraduate Diploma in Gender and Development A Postgraduate Diploma is offered from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies. Postgraduate Diploma students must complete five core courses as part of their diploma requirement. Five Core Courses GEND 6100 Contemporary Feminist Theorising 4 credits GEND 6102 Feminist Epistemology and Methodology 4 credits GEND 6103 Gender Analysis for Development, Policy and Planning 4 credits GEND 6104 Sexualities, Bodies and Power 4 credits GEND 6105 Key Issues in Gender and Transformation in the Caribbean 4 credits Other Requirements One Elective 4 credits Graduate students attend a seminar in the IGDS Seminar Room 21 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 M.Sc Programme in Gender and Development An M.Sc. Programme is offered from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies. M.Sc. Programme students must complete five core courses, one elective, one research course, one research seminar and either one research project / internship (12,000 words) or one research thesis (20,000 words) as part of their M.Sc requirement. Five Core Courses GEND 6100 Contemporary Feminist Theorising 4 credits GEND 6102 Feminist Epistemology and Methodology 4 credits GEND 6103 Gender Analysis for Development, Policy and Planning 4 credits GEND 6104 Sexualities, Bodies and Power 4 credits GEND 6105 Key Issues in Gender and Transformation in the Caribbean 4 credits Other Requirements One Elective 4 credits One Research Course 4 credits One Research Seminar Non credit One Research Project / Internship (12,000 words) or One Research Thesis (20,000 words) 8 credits Shelley Santiago, Research Assistant and IGDS graduate student, videotapes at a Postgraduate Research Seminar at the IGDS, 2010 22 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 M.Phil Programme in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Applicants who have completed the IGDS M.Sc. have an excellent record of scholarship and wish to enter the M.Phil / Ph.D. Programme will be required to complete: Four Core Courses GEND 7100 Contemporary Feminist Theorising 4 credits GEND 7101 Feminist Epistemology and Methodology 4 credits GEND 7102 Gender Analysis for Development, Policy and Planning 4 credits GEND 7103 Sexualities, Bodies and Power 4 credits Other Requirements One Research Course 4 credits Two Research Seminars Non credit One Research Thesis (50,000 words) Non credit One Research Field Non credit Professors Jane Parpart and Patricia Mohammed at a Postgraduate Research Seminar for Ellen O’Malley Camps and Bunny Ramjatan (Ph.D students), 2010 23 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Ph.D Programme in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Applicants who have completed graduate degrees with a substantial research component and who have an excellent record of scholarship in the field of women or gender studies may apply for direct entry to the PhD. programme. This application is approved by the School for Graduate Studies and Research on the recommendation of the IGDS. Students may be exempted from coursework on a case-by-case basis. Students having an excellent record of scholarship in the MSc. in Gender and Development Studies may apply for direct entry to the Ph D programme. M.Phil students can apply to move up to the PhD in their second year. Four Core Courses GEND 8101 Contemporary Feminist Theorising 4 credits GEND 8100 Feminist Epistemology and Methodology 4 credits GEND 8102 Gender Analysis for Development, Policy and Planning 4 credits GEND 8103 Sexualities, Bodies and Power 4 credits Other Requirements One Research Course 4 credits Three Research Seminars Non credit One Thesis (80,000 words) Non credit Two Research Fields Non credit Graduate Students and the general public attend an IGDS Postgraduate Research Seminar, 2010 24 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Graduate students attend a seminar in the IGDS Seminar Room, 2010 LIST OF GRADUATE COURSES GEND 6100 (Diploma / MSc) GEND 7100 (MPhil) GEND 8101 (PhD) Contemporary Feminist Theorising 4 credits This course provides an introduction to themes, issues and conflicts in contemporary feminist theory. The course pays particular attention to the shift from the unifying themes in earlier feminist theorising to the de-stabilising influences of recent social theory, for example black feminist theory and post modernist thought and praxis. Readings and seminars address several debates within feminism around constructions of femininity, the category of ‘woman’, the politics of difference, conceptions of power, the body, performances of gender and the stability of sexed bodies and sexual identity. Through critical engagement, students begin to explore the nexus between classic works of feminist theory and more contemporary and emergent theories of feminism and feminist thought. Objectives Appreciate the contribution of feminist theory to the analysis of social processes and discursive practices;• Understand and explain key approaches and concepts in contemporary feminist theory;• Apply critically theoretical concepts derived from the field of feminist theory to practical and professional concerns which emerge • in the workplace and the wider society. GEND 6102 (Diploma / MSc) GEND 7101 (MPhil) GEND 8100 (PhD) Feminist Epistemology and Methodology 4 credits This course aims to enhance students’ knowledge of both feminist theory and feminist practice regarding knowledge creation. In particular, feminist methodologies are significant for policy development, implementation and evaluation, and for producing research data that often feeds into this process. This course links the construction of knowledge to questions about knowing and issues in research methods. The course develops alongside and in relation to the course Contemporary Feminist Theorising. Objectives Introduce students to key issues in feminist methodology and epistemology;• Equip students with the skills to critique traditional approaches to the construction of knowledge;• Enhance a greater understanding of issues related to what can be known, who can know and different ‘ways of knowing’;• Integration of critical methodological analysis related to the research process, and feminist approaches to the production of • knowledge; Evaluate methodological approaches and their suitability to specific research needs.• 25 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 GEND 6103 (Diploma / MSc) GEND 7102 (MPhil) GEND 8102 (PhD) Gender Analysis for Development, Policy and Planning 4 credits The development enterprise initially ignored gender, assuming that poor people were the target group in need of (economic) development. Influenced by the emergence of liberal and radical feminist thinking and activism in the 1960s and 1970s, the field of women and development emerged with its concern to integrate women into development and to pay attention to women’s issues. In the 1980s, a shift to gender brought men into the picture, and raised important questions about the social construction of gender and its impact on political, economic and social structures. In the last fifteen years, difference, language/voice and power have inspired additional approaches to gender and development, bringing a concern with empowerment, participation and gender mainstreaming. The course will examine the theoretical debates underpinning these shifts, their relationship to broader feminist analyses as well as their implications for policy and praxis. The course will thus provide an overview of gender and development theories; introduce students to the concepts of policy, the importance of gender in policy environments – both governmental and non-governmental, and the practical and theoretical tools for effective gender-sensitive research, policy formulation, implementation and evaluation of developmental challenges in the Caribbean and elsewhere. Objectives: Provide an overview of theoretical approaches to gender and development and their intersections with feminist theories and • development thought. Provide an understanding of the concept of policy and relevance of gender-sensitive and gender aware policy planning in • development at the micro, meso and macro levels within state and non-state actors. To expose students to a number of gender planning frameworks and tools towards the planning, formulation and implementation • of gender sensitive and relevant policy and praxis. • Conduct gender and culturally-sensitive planning in designing social and development projects through small-group and project- based learning conduct. GEND6104 (Diploma / MSc) GEND 7103 (MPhil) GEND 8103 (PhD) Sexualities, Bodies and Power 4 credits This course addresses the important area of sexualities and bodies which is an important area in feminist scholarship and gender studies. It highlights the continuous tension between bodies as natural and biological but also as socially and culturally constructed. The complexities of gender identities and their relationship with fixed bodies are addressed as well as the debates and discourses around acceptable and transgressive sexualities. The policy implications attendant on these issues will also be addressed. The course takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to examining social, historical, economic, artistic and cultural processes through which ideas about bodies, sexualities and gender have been and continue to be constructed. Gender ideologies are lived through the body, thoughts, emotions, spiritual practices and other aspects of our cultural contexts. Culture, and the ways it is created, consumed and understood, shapes who women and men feel expected to become and how they manage these expectations. Rather than simply looking at women’s and men’s experiences of subordination however, the course seeks to more fundamentally examine the varied impacts of cultural ideas about women and men. Nonetheless, it also points to ways in which unequal power structures and stereotypical and oppressive role models can be revealed and challenged. Ph.D student Camille Samuels presents her research at a Postgraduate Research Seminar, 2010 26 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 For this reason, the course examines theories of sex, sexuality, bodies and gender as they are debated, negotiated and lived around the world. In this way it encourages students to see how sources of knowledge emerge from western and non-western centres, and the extent to which Western theories of sexuality and gender are both useful and problematic in understanding Caribbean realities. The course introduces students to foundational writings in the study of sexualities while also introducing the growing queer studies and masculinities literatures, and asks students to consider future directions in the study of sexualities and bodies as scholarship on gendered power relations continues to grow. The course will consist of weekly seminars which provide an opportunity for students to actively engage in learning and critical thinking in a supportive environment. All students are expected to do the required readings before class and to come to class with 2-3 pages of prepared comments, critiques and questions. Students are also encouraged to be respectful of others and to enable everyone to participate equally and openly. Objectives: At the end of this course students should be able to: Explain and exemplify ways that bodies are gendered, raced and classed;• List, define and summarise key conceptual and theoretical tools for the analysis of sexualities and related issues;• Compare, apply and critique feminist and other approaches to analysing the complexities of human sexualities;• Describe and explain the relationship between sexual pleasure and social power and exemplify their wider societal implications;• Recommend policy interventions in the related areas.• GEND 6105 (Diploma / MSc) Key Issues in Gender and Transformation in the Caribbean 4 credits Key Issues in Gender and Transformation in the Caribbean is designed to introduce graduate students to some key issues that have not received serious attention during the first four core courses in the graduate programme. The issues will be determined by the facilitator in consultation with the graduate teaching staff and the graduate student cohort. Consequently they will vary each year. The course is designed as a seminar, providing opportunities for students to meet experts in the field, to discuss relevant publications and to write a research paper on one of the topics. Guest speakers as well as IGDS faculty will teach the course. Students will be expected to give an oral presentation on the readings of one key issue and to produce a research paper on that topic. Objectives: • To provide a structure for continued interaction and scholarly support among graduate students; • To provide information and skills relevant for graduate research and scholarly writing; • To provide information and skills relevant to professional work in gender studies in the Caribbean; • To facilitate interaction with local and visiting practitioners and scholars in the field and to facilitate the completion of some research in these areas; • To develop critical reading skills. Graduate students attend a seminar in the IGDS Seminar Room, 2010 27 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 NON-DEGREE PROGRAMMES Distance Learning Diploma in Gender and Development Studies The Open Campus The Institute also offers an 18 month, distance learning Diploma in Gender and Development Studies through the UWI Open Campus. This diploma programme comprises 8 courses, (3 credits each) and a practicum (6 credits). It is particularly suitable for practitioners; members of women’s groups; men’s groups, and activists in the field who wish to matriculate for a Degree programme but are unable to attend University full-time. This programme is specially recommended for persons resident in UWI or Open Campus territories. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: The Open Campus site in your area/region The Programme Coordinator, or Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica, W.I. Tel: 876-927-1913; or 927-1660-9, ext. 2494. • Email: cgdsrcu@uwimona.edu.jm The Summer Institute in Gender and Development: Intensive Training Programme, Cave Hill Campus The Summer Institute in Gender and Development is a programme offered in alternate years by the IGDS, Nita Barrow Unit, UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados. This programme is for women and men working or interested in the field of social development within Caribbean Societies, particularly practitioners within government and non-governmental institutions, community-based and service oriented organizations. The specific objectives of the Programme are: • To provide critical insights into feminist theories and methodologies and their application to everyday issues in Caribbean societies; • To impart skills of gender analysis as tools for analysing and understanding the developmental process; • To examine historical, political, cultural, environmental, social and economic issues from the perspective of the social relations of gender; • To develop a consciousness of gender relations as a mechanism that facilitates professional analysis and raises levels of confidence and self-awareness; • To enable participants to act as catalysts for change by developing their leadership and communication skills; • To enable participants to share experiences and develop networks as a basis for future action. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Summer Institute in Gender and Development: Intensive Training Programme Head, Institute for Gender and Development Studies The University of the West Indies, P.O. Box 64 Bridgetown, Barbados Tel: (246) 417-4490/91/92/93 Fax: (246) 424-3822 • Email: gender@uwichill.edu.bb Spotlight for the IGDS Haiti Relief Drive, an initiative of Shelley Santiago (left), IGDS Research Assistant and graduate student who receives assistance from Shahzadi Khan (right) to put together Personal Hygiene Kits to be shipped to Haiti, 2010 28 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 SPECIALISED SUMMER COURSES St. Augustine Campus Doing Ethnography: The Poetics and Politics of Qualitative Research Ethnography is both a process of data collection and a written product of research. These aspects of ethnography are neither straightforward nor apolitical, but rather infused with social and cultural meanings as well as complex power dynamics inherent in the relationship between the observer and the observed. Since the early 1980s ethnographers — particularly anthropologists and sociologists — have grappled with the impact of these realities on research methodologies and outcomes. This intensive three week summer course introduces participants both to standard ethnographic research methods (including formulating research questions, open-ended and structured interviewing, unobtrusive observation, participant-observation, the collection of life histories and personal narratives, and the use of visuals), as well as concepts central to this “new ethnography”: “self-reflexivity,” “multi-site ethnography” “the native ethnographer” and cutting edge theoretical frameworks such as Black Feminist Anthropology. Participants will also explore ways of informing ethnography with gendered analyses, addressing issues of ethics in the field, and applying ethnographic research in policy formulations. Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge N/A GEND 1103 AR11C Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge Women’s Studies emerged as an interdisciplinary academic field in the 1960s. This focus provided much of the foundation for the complex and interesting ways we now seek to understand not only women and femininity, but also men and masculinity, and the ways in which different and hierarchical gender relations are made real. With four decades of hindsight, this course examines some of the insights, debates, concerns and visions that began to be articulated with the introduction of Women’s Studies. Drawing on feminist approaches, we examine how the categories “woman” and “man” are socially and culturally created, and how they vary historically across culture, ethnicity and class. Linking theory, personal experience, collective action and perspectives from around the globe, we examine the social, political, economic and legal discourses that perpetuate both ideas and practices which amount to sexism and intersecting oppressions. We explore contemporary attitudes, values and perceptions about women as portrayed, in particular, in our media and popular art forms. Finally, we will look at the methods by which both women and men have struggled and organized against sexist and other forms of gender discrimination, and the impact that feminist resistance has had on institutions. Throughout the course, we incorporate participatory methods, video, music, literature, popular culture, guest lectures and public action. This course is an excellent introduction to the Minor in Gender and Development Studies and provides a thematic foundation for more theoretical, interdisciplinary courses. UWI students and the general public in attendance at an intensive summer course, Doing Ethnography, the Poetics and Politics of Qualitative Research taught by Diana Fox (Senior Fulbright Fellow and Professor of Anthropology), 2009 29 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 CADV (Coalition Against Domestic Violence T&T) and Arts in Action (UWI, Creative Arts Centre) in collaboration with Toco Foundation, meet with Toco community members towards running creative writing and performing workshops for a soap opera for the Break the Silence project at Toco Radio, North East Trinidad researCH The Institute for Gender and Development Studies has a long history of involvement in regional, community and faculty research. Gender Studies is by definition multi-disciplinary or even trans-disciplinary and the Institute seeks to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplinary locations in collaborative research. The regional programme is concerned with gendered issues that affect the Caribbean and aims to build gender consciousness and gender analysis skills in both research and policy in the region. The Institute is also involved in interdisciplinary collaborative research networks including university staff from other faculties and departments as well as other universities. Finally, individual staff members have their own research networks, which reflect their particular interests and areas of expertise. REGIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME Across the three campuses, the Institute has developed an integrated regional research programme entitled: Gender in Caribbean Thought: Breaching Frontiers and Understanding Difference. Related themes have been identified which include: The Making of Feminisms in the Caribbean• Caribbean Gender Ideologies• Constructions of Caribbean Masculinities• Gender-based differentials in Caribbean Education Systems• Gender, Science and Technology• Gender and Popular Culture• Rethinking Caribbean Economy• The Making of Feminisms in the Caribbean Patricia Mohammed, Rhoda Reddock, Gabrielle Hosein, Deborah McFee The first and second waves of the Women’s Movement in the Caribbean require documentation to preserve its history and to bring the movement into perspective. This project is founded on the belief that the impulse to further feminist theorising and activism needs to be transmitted to a younger generation. One of the outcomes will be the creation of a Special Collection on Caribbean Feminisms to be housed in the West Indiana and Special Collections section of the UWI Main Library, St. Augustine Campus, which will provide a database of materials from which teaching and further research may proceed. Another outcome will be a biographical dictionary of Caribbean feminists and women’s movement activists. The project focuses on the collection of relevant historical and documentary materials on feminist activism, since the start of the 20th Century. This documentation should provide the basis for ongoing critical analyses of the past. 30 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Gender–based, Differentials at Secondary and Tertiary Levels of Caribbean Education Systems Prof. Barbara Bailey and Regional Team This project arose out of a need to study the perceived differences in male and female academic performance. The Regional Coordinating Unit, IGDS Mona campus, has undertaken the data analysis of this project. Gender–based Differentials in Secondary & Tertiary Education Systems in Trinidad & Tobago Jeanette Morris, June George, Jeniffer Mohammed, Carol Keller, Patricia Worrell, Rhoda Reddock. This countrywide research project arose from current concerns about ‘gender differences in educational performance’ and entails an exploration of underlying reasons for these differentials at the secondary and tertiary levels in Trinidad and Tobago. Components include: studies of classroom interaction, analysis of CXC-CSEC data and in-depth interviews with students. The emphasis of the project is a re- assessment of gender dis-aggregated data on the education system in Trinidad and Tobago. A book based on these results is currently being produced. ST. AUGUSTINE CAMPUS RESEARCH PROGRAMME Current Research Themes: The Making of Feminisms in the Caribbean• Constructions of Caribbean Masculinities• Gender, Science and Technology• Image and Iconography in the Evolution of Caribbean Society• Gender, Sexuality and the Implications for HIV and AIDS• GENDER, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Gender, Water, Community and Democracy WGWN — The Women Gender Water Network. Chair: Dr. Fredericka Deare The WGWN is a group of scholars (in life sciences, history, chemistry, engineering, planning, gender studies, etc.) as well as representatives from governmental and non-governmental organisations and community members, from Trinidad and Tobago and across the Caribbean region. The WGWN emerged out of the experience of a research project entitled, The Nariva Swamp: a Gendered Case Study in Wetland Resource Management, which was carried out by the CGDS, St Augustine (1998-2000) as part of the wider regional research programme of the IGDS entitled Gender, Science and Technology. One of the many issues that arose out of the Nariva project was that water-related issues were not sufficiently examined. The WGWN creates opportunities for training and sharing of knowledge within the field of women, water and gender studies. Participants of the Dissemination of Findings & Child Sexual Abuse Protocol Drafting Workshop for Service Providers, in Tobago, for “The Breaking the Silence Research Project: A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago”, 2010 31 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Water for Life Project WGWN — The Women Gender Water Network Chair: Dr. Fredericka Deare In 2009-2010, the WGWN’s research and involvement will be focused on issues surrounding rainwater harvesting, including ecosystem management interventions for dengue fever prevention and control. The Network is collaborating with the Institute of Public Health and Water Research out of Texas A&M University and a number of local institutions and organisations in the conduct of the Royal Bank of Canada Blue Water Sponsored, Water for Life Project which involves the training of community residents as Comunity Water Champions in all aspects of water, water use, management, sanitation and hygiene. GENDER, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Gender and Recreational Water Use Diana Fox and Dawn Phillips The Gender and Recreational Water Use Project was initiated in 2005 and is an ongoing effort to understand how people in various communities across Trinidad and Tobago use, manage and understand their water resources, particularly with respect to recreation, broadly defined according to local viewpoints. The project employs qualitative ethnographic field methods, including participant- observation and interviews to ensure that Trinidadians and Tobagonians themselves have a voice in defining the challenges and solutions to their water resource needs and uses. Significantly, the research is guided by the assumption that men and women use water differently and will have different, and sometimes intersecting, approaches to its management, as well as in identifying problems and solutions. Biographies of Women in Science Grace Sirju-Charran Knowledge of women scientists in Trinidad and Tobago and their contributions to Science is limited. This project sought to compile and publish biographies of women scientists utilising data drawn from interviews with them. This research is useful for teaching at secondary and tertiary levels, for further reference and research purposes. Dr. Ward-Robinson makes a toast of water at the launch of Water for Life: the Trinidad and Tobago Initiative, A Royal Bank of Canada Blue Water Project, Coordinated by the IPWR (Canada) in association with the RBC (Trinidad) and the WGWN (Women Gender Water Network) of the IGDS, UWI, St. Augustine 32 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR HIV AND AIDS Lead Researchers Coordinators ñ Rhoda Reddock, Sandra Reid This research proceeds from the theoretical premise that gender profoundly influences sexuality, including the sexual conduct that places individuals at risk for HIV infection. The project seeks to answer questions about the influence of gender norms, expectations, attitudes, myths, ideologies and the associated power relations on sexual behaviours in Trinidad and Tobago, especially among youth, and recognises that we cannot effectively intervene to change risky behaviours without a clear understanding of their complexities. The investigation brings together existing research and generates new knowledge in areas previously unexamined. The findings will be used to propose research-based interventions to aid in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and other areas that emerge from the research experience. In the current phase there are two main sub-projects under the general theme, these are: Breaking the Silence: A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago and, Building Responsive Policy: Gender, Sexual Culture and HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean. The multi-disciplinary research team brings together scholars in Medicine/Psychiatry, Gender Studies, Communications Studies and Social Sciences. This project received general funding from the UWI/Government of Trinidad and Tobago Fund. Breaking the Silence: A Multi–Sectoral Approach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago Rhoda Reddock, Sandra Reid, , Jane Parpart, Project Coordinator: Tisha Nickeni, CADV Coordinator:-Maureen Searles Project Partners: Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CADV), Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC) and Arts in Action (UWI Department of Creative and Festival Arts) Funded and Supported by:The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women and the United Nations International Childrenís Emergency Fund (UNICEF),Trinidad and Tobago. The Project seeks to break the silence on the taboo subject of child sexual abuse (CSA)/incest and its implications for HIV throughout Trinidad and Tobago by empowering children, parents, communities, policy makers and service providers who work in child protection, HIV/AIDS and women’s rights. To do so, the Project uses the following strategies: Building partnerships1) between research institutions, HIV/AIDS, women’s and children’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs), service providers, relevant governmental institutions and policy makers; Action-oriented research2) aimed at understanding the links between gender, CSA/incest and HIV transmission, and reducing the vulnerability of youth to CSA/incest and HIV; Developing the capacity3) of service providers (education, health, NGO, governmental, police, community) to address CSA/incest and implications for HIV; Raising awareness4) among policy makers and service providers to influence new institutional policies and protocols and a national policy that will address CSA/incest and implications for HIV. Participants of the Dissemination of Findings & Child Sexual Abuse Protocol Drafting Workshop for Service Providers, in Trinidad, for “The Breaking the Silence Research Project: A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago”, 2010 33 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 The long-term goal of the Project is to reduce the prevalence of child sexual abuse (CSA)/incest and its implication for risky sexual behaviour and HIV. (To achieve this goal, the Project will produce new research findings and a best practice research model, which will be disseminated during the third year (Phase III) of the Project.) The short-term objectives of the Project are to: Generate new knowledge and understanding of CSA/incest and the implications for HIV; 1. Empower women, men, girls and boys to understand and address CSA/incest and its implications on the spread of HIV through 2. action research; and Encourage service providers to use revised (or) enhanced 3. gender sensitive policies and procedures related to CSA/incest, which conform to international human rights standards Building Responsive Policy: Gender, Sexual Culture and HIV & AIDS in the Caribbean Rhoda Reddock, Sandra Reid, , Gabrielle Hosein, Tia Cooper Project Coordinator: Tisha Nickenig Institutional Partners : The University of West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Programme (UWI-HARP), Barbados; The ëUltimate Purpose,í Suriname; and York University, Canada Funded and supported by: The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Caribbean Office. This project aims to produce knowledge of the sexual cultures of the Caribbean region and the implications for HIV/AIDS risk. Project research is taking place in three countries throughout the region – Barbados, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. In each research site two common baseline studies are being carried out: a secondary analysis of the political economy of sexuality and HIV/AIDS in each of the selected countries; and • an examination of selected media and informational/advocacy campaigns on HIV/AIDS to document and assess the underlying • messages that challenge or reinforce the gender-based causes of the epidemic. In addition, each country research team has embarked on at least one case study designed to explore in greater detail one aspect of the sexual cultures of the specific country using primary qualitative research methods. Using ethnographic observations and semi- structured in-depth interviews, the Trinidad and Tobago team at the IGDS, UWI, St. Augustine specifically aims to document and analyse the practices, attitudes, feelings, meanings, and gendered negotiations of power related to sexuality among young adults, ages 18 to 30, in Trinidad and Tobago taking into consideration the socio-economic context, and class, religious and ethnic diversity that exist. Rhonda Mckenzie (far right), the Community Liaison Officer for Charlotteville, for the Break the Silence project, with some of the children who participated in the arts workshops, holding the kites and standing in front of a banner that they made. 34 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 INDIVIDUAL STAFF RESEARCH, ST. AUGUSTINE CAMPUS Individual staff members of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies are involved in personal research projects. Politics and Governance in San Fernando, Trinidad Gabrielle Jamela Hosein This study is concerned with the relationships, values and actions that matter most to people. It examines how these inform their participation in public life. More specifically, this study looks at the ways women and men manage and engage with others, ideas, things, spaces, processes, institutions and habits. Finally, as part of exploring the political implications of informality, this study seeks to understand how people participate in, experience and negotiate different forms of authority. It explores how market vendors and police enforce legislation, how party activists and squatters depend on patronage, how women and men participate in associational life, and how both mas makers and local government officials compete to lead a national event. In each instance, and comparing them, the study delves into what individuals or groups think made sense or mattered and what kinds of authority weighed in on the moment. It then examines the implications for power and practices related to leadership, democracy, patronage, nationalism and gender. Women and Trade Deborah McFee Regional governments have increasingly seen the development of small and micro enterprise in the Caribbean as a necessary tool for the survival and expansion of regional economies. As official attention to this sector grows, it is important to recognise that men and women feature differently within this sector. The gendered reality of life experiences, the differences in access to and control over resources between and among men and women impact upon the growth and sustainability of micro and small enterprise, and ultimately national and regional development. Image and Iconography of the Caribbean Patricia Mohammed This study of the region’s iconography explores how a Caribbean sensibility has been shaped. It traces the indelible parameters drawn on each society by the colonial encounter, crossing the boundaries of disciplines and the methodologies and material of history, literature, art, gender and cultural studies. It reconstructs the process by which another variegated culture is created out of the broken shards of parent cultures, combining elements of Europe, Africa and Asia, privileging no one group and seeing all as mutual exchanges that are necessary to the constant rebirth of the region and its diaspora. It offers an insight into the region’s range of peoples, their crafting of religion, art and artefacts and the creation of a new aesthetic that is popularly perceived as Caribbean. It is primarily a visual representation of the Caribbean as perceived by outsider and insider alike over the last five hundred years. Maps, drawings, sketches, paintings and photographs from Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and other Caribbean territories, come together with anthropological, literary and historical texts. Professor Patricia Mohammed at the launch of her book, Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation (Palgrave Macmillan) and the DVD documentary film series, A Different Imagination, on campus, 2010 35 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Conceptualising Global Democracy Patricia Mohammed Building Global Democracy programme (BGD) is facilitated and coordinated through a convening group of ten persons based in ten world regions. The administrative office is located in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. Core funding is provided with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation. It explores how globalisation can be governed in democratic ways. The Programme explores how ‘rule by and for the people’ can be understood and practiced in relation to global issues. How can democracy be meaningful in today’s more global world? How can affected people participate in and control the governance of global concerns such as climate change, financial crises, health challenges, human rights, internet links, security problems, and trade? Convenor for the Caribbean, Jessica Byron is currently Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica. Conceptualising Global Democracy is the title of the project that Patricia Mohammed is involved in, as a researcher. It is one of the projects in this larger programme. Gender, Development and Empowerment Jane L. Parpart This study interrogates the discourse of gender and empowerment in an increasingly insecure world. It is based on a concern that the current discourse on gender and empowerment tends to assume a world where women (and marginal men) can openly and safely challenge existing gender hierarchies and inequalities. The research explores the possibility that new ways of thinking about, discussing and defining gender and empowerment are required if we are to understand the possibilities and limitations of empowerment in dangerous circumstances. The research focuses on Africa, but draws on relevant cases around the world. The aim is to develop a more nuanced approach to gender and empowerment in development literature, policy and practice, particularly in regard to women (and men) living in violent, masculinist contexts. Two papers from the project are in the process of being published. Gender, Labour, Migration and Environment in the Caribbean Piya Pangsapa This research project, comprised of two distinct parts, examines interrelated issues pertaining to gender, labour, migration and environment in the Caribbean, highlighting the internal and external flows of peoples across borders, and in cases of environmental injustice, focusing on island-based issues and coastlines as ‘borderlands’ to explore the connections between the environmental and social impacts of the oil and tourism industries on fisheries, pollution, biodiversity. Drawing from qualitative fieldwork and secondary sources, this study provides an empirical assessment of labour standards violations in occupational sectors where women predominate (light manufacturing and service industries) against a backdrop of an economic crisis that is affecting employment in developing countries. This study will also investigate the kinds of resistance networks that are emerging throughout the region and the effectiveness of the work of social movements and civil society groups in countries such as Jamaica and Trinidad. Participants of the Dissemination of Findings & Child Sexual Abuse Protocol Drafting Workshop for Service Providers, in Trinidad, for The Breaking the Silence Research Project: A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago, 2010 36 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Prof. Rhoda Reddock, lead researcher on the Breaking the Silence project, gives Michael Als, Coordinator, Toco Foundation a blue teddy button, one of the gifts designed to raise awareness of the issues surrounding Child Sexual Abuse (right). Participants of the workshops and interventions from the Toco community enjoy a dinner after the closing ceremony (left) Transnational Migrant Coping Strategies in the Current Economic Crisis: a pilot study Jane Parpart, Deborah Mohammed and Marianne Marchand Caribbean states are sending, receiving and transit states for migrant flows, and thus make an excellent site for studying transmigration patterns, both temporary and long-term. These patterns are long established and affected by factors such as class, ethnicity, religion, age and sexuality. This study will establish a base-line review of existing literature and carry out field research on the impact of the current crisis on translational strategies for gaining security and belonging. The sites will initially focus on Trinidadian and Mexican migration to Canada and the United States, with the aim of establishing a larger project once the pilot studies are completed. A paper will be presented at the International Studies Association meeting to discuss initial findings. Gender, Ethnicity and Identity in Trinidad and Tobago: Contestations and Intersections Rhoda Reddock This study involves the examination of the historical and contemporary factors affecting gender relations among ethnic, inter-ethnic and cultural groups in Trinidad and Tobago and other multi-ethnic post-colonial societies. Over the past ten years a number of papers have been prepared and published. These include: “Jahaji Bhai: The Emergence of a Dougla Poetics in Trinidad and Tobago” in • Identities; Vol. 5, No. 4, 1998. “Conceptualising Difference in Caribbean Feminist Theory” in • New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, Brian Meeks and Folke Lindhahl (eds.) – The University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad, 2001. Diversity, Difference and Caribbean Feminism: the Challenge of Anti-Racism”, in Issue 1, • Caribbean Review of Gender Studies- 2007. Gender, Nation and the Dilemmas of Citisenship: The Case of the Marriage Acts of Trinidad and Tobago”, in Carolyn Eliott (ed.) • The Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalisation and Politicised Religion, Routledge, New York, 2008. These essays are being revised, updated, augmented and compiled into a manuscript for publication. Gender Practices among African Trinidadian Muslims: A Case Study at the Jamaat al Muslimeen and Madressa Jeanne Roach-Baptiste Muslims’ everyday, life-shaping encounters and negotiations as Muslims in non-Muslim territories are eclipsed and remain in economies of production and consumption of war on terrorism; of global modernity; of shifting geo-political landscapes and territoriality; and of ethno-racial, ethno-national, and ethno-religious discriminatory behaviour and genocidal practices. Even though transnational feminist scholars struggle through feminist knowledge production and scholarship to de-essentialise culturally and socially the terrorist image of the male Muslim body or the notion of the subjugated female Muslim, these representations and discourses tend to remain geographically, ethnically, and racially mired in a South Asian-Middle Eastern-Arab context, referred to by some Muslim scholars as “the Muslim world.” In an effort to bring into view critically as actors, rather than as spectacle only, Muslim men and especially Muslim women in non-Muslim countries and to examine the coherence and dissonance of the construction of their individual and collective religious and social identities in relation to the society at large, this case study at the Jamaat al Muslimeen and Madressa, Mucurapo Road, St James, Trinidad seeks to investigate gender practices in the quotidian lives of African-Trinidadian Muslims. 37 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS Through a system of research affiliation, visiting researchers and scholars with interests in women and gender studies frequently associate with the IGDS. This allows the Institute to benefit from the knowledge and experience of the scholar through seminars, informal discussions and interaction with students. The visiting Research Affiliate and visiting Fulbright Scholars programmes are two examples where each year a number of international scholars are attached to the Institute in an atmosphere of collaboration, learning and sharing. Texas A&M, University of East Anglia, the Royal Bank of Canada The Institute for Gender and Development Studies and the Women and Gender Network launched the Water for Life: Trinidad & Tobago initiative in October 2009. The project includes a research component using innovative approaches to educate community persons to be water champions, the use of rain water harvesting and the development of child-friendly methods of water conservation. The project focuses on both rural and urban communities throughout Trinidad; we are in the first phase of the project. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA Kishi Animashaun Ducre, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Ducre’s research interests include a diasporic comparison of Black women’s lives in environmentally-degraded environments and how they negotiate space. She is attached to the IGDS for the 2010/2011 academic year to engage in research and teaching on gender, the environment and climate change and will embark on a Photovoice project which promotes the use of photography in communities. University of Maryland – College Park, USA Dr Michelle Rowley, Assistant Professor of Women Studies, University of Maryland – College Park. Dr. Rowley led the Women’s Studies Pilot Study Abroad Program in Transnational Feminism to Trinidad and Tobago hosted by the IGDS in January 2010 which comprised an upper-level undergraduate course entitled, ‘Gender, Sexuality and Globalization: Transnational Feminism and the Anglophone Caribbean’. Baltimore City College, Maryland, USA Dr Henrietta Hestick is a visiting researcher based at Baltimore City College in the USA. Dr Hestick’s current research interests are in the areas of gender-based violence and child sexual abuse. She was attached to the IGDS for the Academic year 2009/2010 to engage in research in Trinidad on these research themes. Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts Dr. Diane Fox, Professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State College and former Fulbright scholar to the IGDS in 2004 has collaborated on the Research Project – Gender and Water. The IGDS St. Augustine offers a specialised summer course entitled ‘Doing Ethnography: the Poetics and Politics of Qualitative Research’ that is taught by Dr. Diane Fox. To date this course was offered in 2005, 2007 and 2009. Clark University, Worcester M.A. Michelle Rowley received her PhD in Women’s Studies from Clark University, Worcester M.A. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled “The Politics of (M)Othering: Maternal Centrality and Afro-Trinidadian Women’s Subjectivities”. Her present research interests include issues of reproductive rights gender planning and policy formulation and cultural constructions. In January 2010 Dr Rowley headed a team of students from Clark University on a three-week visit to the IGDS, UWI St Augustine. Shelley Santiago, IGDS Research Assistant and postgraduate student, on a trip to Haiti to deliver items collected during the IGDS Haiti Relief Drive, and to conduct fieldwork interviews with women living in camp settlements post earthquake Haiti, 2010 38 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 David Lewis, a research affiliate of the IGDS and Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington presenting his research, Musical Responses to HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago at an IGDS lunchtime seminar, 2010 Emory University, Atlanta Cultural Crossings: A Gender Image base This developed out of a collaborative initiative between Prof. Patricia Mohammed of the IGDS and Dr. Edna Bay of Emory University, Atlanta. It drew on the research of these two scholars who have been collecting historical and contemporary images in and of the wider Caribbean, as well as in Benin, West Africa. The project attempts to pool the collected image data of both scholars along with relevant bibliographies and papers related to the specific project in varied formats. These are now accessible to scholars and students of the University of the West Indies, Emory University and selected scholars and students in West Africa and elsewhere. Northwestern University Law School/, Chicago Prof. Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and former Fulbright scholar, is a research team member of the research project – Gender, Sexuality and the Implications for HIV and AIDS. Saint John’s University The Office of International Collaboration and Partnerships and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, at UWI, St. Augustine and the Saint John’s University and College of Saint Benedict of Minnesota, USA, jointly convened a workshop entitled ‘Approaching Men’s’ Studies in a Gender Studies Context: Cross Cultural Initiatives’. The workshop brought together over 40 participants including students from SJU/CSB, colleagues from Hobart and William Smith College and Morehouse College in the USA and from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. University of California, Berkeley In 2007 the IGDS, St. Augustine hosted a study abroad programme for students of this university. This was part of a three-country programme with the longest period (3 weeks) in Trinidad and Tobago. Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York Jill Schneiderman, Professor of Geology at Vassar College and former Fulbright scholar to the IGDS in 2003, has collaborated on the Research Project - Gender, Water, Community and Democracy. CONTRACT RESEARCH The Institute on request carries out specialist research studies for local, regional and international agencies. Some examples are listed here. Local and Regional Organisations Caricom Secretariat - 1995/1996 Women, Family and Family Violence in Trinidad and Tobago State Agencies Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica - 2005 The Preparation of a National Gender Policy for the Commonwealth of Dominica Government of Trinidad and Tobago - 2003 The Preparation of a National Gender Policy and Action Plan for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Community Development and Gender Affairs Government of Trinidad and Tobago - 1998–1999 Preparation of a Policy document for the development of a centralised data collection system on Domestic Violence for the Gender Affairs Division of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago Government of the Cayman Islands, - 2000–2002 Preparation of a National Gender Policy for the Cayman Islands 39 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 International Organisations CIDA INC. and Survival Systems Ltd. - 2001 Gender and Social Analysis of the Aviation Energy and Offshore sector in Trinidad & Tobago European Union Freidrich Ebert Stiftung and Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) - 2006 Training Manual and Interactive CD ROM on Gender Sensitive Policy-Making in the Caribbean Stichting HIVOS 1996–1997 Consultant to, for the development of a Gender Policy and a Membership Policy for the Agency for Rural Transformation (ART), Grenada 1996 Evaluation of the Social and Gender Impact of STABEX transfers (under the Lomé convention) to the Government of Grenada United Nations Agencies UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, 2007 Breaking the Silence: A Multi-Sectoral Apporach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexul Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago UNICEF 2008, 2009, 2010 Breaking the Silence: A Multi-Sectoral Apporach to Preventing and Addressing Child Sexul Abuse in Trinidad and Tobago IDRC, 2007 Building Responsive Policy: Gender, Sexual Culture, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. Marilyn Crichlow, General Manager of the Water Resources Authority (T&T), speaks at the launch of, Water for Life: the Trinidad and Tobago Initiative, A Royal Bank of Canada Blue Water Project, Coordinated by the IPWR (Canada) in association with the RBC (Trinidad) and the WGWN (Women Gender Water Network) of the IGDS, UWI, St. Augustine UNDP - July - October 2009 Baseline Survey Consultancy: Enhance Public Trust Security and Inclusion Programme, to be carried out in Guyana. Team is led by Dr. Mark Kirton of the Institute for International Relations. UNESCO — 2009 A Gender, Peace and Human Enrichment Programme under the UNESCO Culture of Peace and the Promotion of Good Citisenship Initiative UNIFEM - 2007 Gender training of staff at the United Nations Development Programme Country Offices, Barbados UNIFEM - 2006 The Development of a training manual on Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, 2006. UNIFEM - 2005 Gender training of staff at the United Nations Development Programme Country Offices, Suriname ILO - 2005 Preparation of the technical report – “Reconciling Work with Family: Issues and Policies in Trinidad and Tobago” UNDP - 2000 National Report on the Situation of Violence against Women and Girls in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago UNDP - 1997 The Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming in UNDP programming in Trinidad and Tobago 40 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Children of the Charlotteville community participate in the arts workshops at the Family Health Fair in their community, for the Break the Silence project, 2010 41 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 outreaCH Outreach plays an important role in fulfilling the Institute’s mandate. In this regard, the St. Augustine IGDS Unit extends its influence to the wider Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and internationally through a number of services and activities. These include our Lunchtime seminars, as well as outreach through workshops, public seminars, providing consultancy services and serving on Advisory committees of a number of organisations. In addition, the Institute’s staff and graduate students serve as guest speakers for a number of NGOs, international organisations and corporate events. Our outreach also includes the commemoration of designated International Days, in particular the celebration of International Women’s Day, March 8th, through cultural events, public lectures and displays. The Institute’s outreach programme plays a vital role in ensuring the Institute’s continued presence and commitment to the women’s movement as well as to contributing to the development of public policy in the wider society. The Institute has sustained a prominent presence and continued involvement with civil society and it is out of this engagement that the impetus to establish academic scholarship was born. Through this outreach function, the Institute maintains linkages with the women’s movement, the emerging men’s movement and the wider society acts as a key source of information locally, regionally and internationally on Caribbean gender issues. Documentation Centre The Institute for Gender in Development Studies has a small documentation centre housing an assortment of books, reports, newsletters and newspaper clippings on topics related to the work of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies. Individuals may browse materials from the Documentation Centre and request photocopies. IGDS at the DSpace at The Main Library, The UWI, St. Augustine The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) of the St Augustine Campus of the UWI, formerly the Centre for Gender & Development Studies (CGDS), is committed to a programme of teaching, research and outreach, which, among other things, seeks an understanding of the world which takes women and men, their lives and achievements into account. The IGDS’ objective is to produce and disseminate knowledge based on the generation and analysis of research data on women, men and / or gender- related issues in the Caribbean. The IGDS UWI DSpace collection includes: papers, outcome documents and proceedings from CGDS Workshops and Conferences over the years, affiliated, associate and Institute staff and student research, course information and other material. Candlelight vigil at the end of a walk in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, organized by CAFRA in collaboration with the IGDS, on the UWI Campus, November 2009 42 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Events and Artistic Productions International Women’s Day Events Every year the Institute organises an artistic production on the campus to commemorate International Women’s Day. For 2003 the production, entitled Jazzabelle, showcased the talents - of female jazz musicians and female led ensembles. In 2004, the production was called Men Who Love Women and featured artists such as 3Canal and the Black Stalin, among others. The 2005 production featured the group Ten Sisters – song, portrayal and spoken word – focused on the growing phenomenon of gun violence in Trinidad & Tobago. In 2006, in lieu of the usual artistic production, the Institute hosted a participatory workshop entitled The Man Package on the St. Augustine Campus. This was done through an interactive, open air, revolutionary workshop called It Takes Two based upon the It Takes Two Revolutionary School series held in 2002. 2008 WDSG — Women and Development Studies Group Special Collection Launch Since 1982, the Women and Development Studies Groups (WDSG) have been committed to the maximisation and development of the human resource potential of women in the Caribbean region. Their main achievement has been the successful establishment of the CGDS in September 1993, a culmination of just over ten years of lobbying and activism on the UWI campuses. Like its sister branches the Mona (Jamaica) and Cave Hill (Barbados) campuses, the St. Augustine (Trinidad) WDSG is committed to improving gender relations in the society and region primarily through well-organised staff development and outreach activities within and outside the campus. The WDSG philosophy is based on the promotion, development and recognition of women’s status in society through education, training and the legislative process. The ultimate objective is to empower women to chart their own destiny, a destiny that involves gender equity, openness, and sustainable growth and development. Over the years, it has supported the work of the Gender and Development Teaching Programme, promoting, undertaking and encouraging research, and arranging or providing for the hosting of workshops, lectures, exhibitions and other forums on gender-related issues. The IGDS commemorated International Women’s Day, March 2010, with a special lunchtime seminar entitled, From One to Many: Techno-Politics, Revolution and the Art of the Possible. The feature presentation Audre Lorde and the Longing for Home(land) was given by Dr. Alexis De Veaux (far right) (Department of Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo - SUNY). Guest speaker Dr. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein (IGDS) (Left centre) presented A Revolution is a Way of Life Screenings 2009 Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, by Renee Bergan The film screening was followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Prof. Jane Parpart. The panellists included: Prof. Bridget Brereton, Prof Rhoda Reddock, Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne, and Prof Patricia Mohammed 2008 The Challenges of Sustainability and Development in Trinidad and Tobago: Lessons From the Nariva Swamp. The Nariva Swamp: A Contested Wetland – Issues of Gender and Sustainability examines the competing demands of conservation and development. Further, it explores the significance of gender and social analysis to environmental research and policy. Living With the Nariva Swamp: Participatory Research with Kernahan and Cascadoux focuses on using ethnographic research and qualitative techniques when exploring the relationship between women, men, boys and girls, and the ecosystem in which they live. Both contribute to understanding the ways we can research, document and learn more about the relationship between humans and natural ecosystems. 43 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Thomas Glave (Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at SUNY Binghamton, USA) reads from Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles at the IGDS book launch of the anthology, Daaga Hall, UWI St. Augustine, 2010 Lunchtime Seminar Series The Institute organises and hosts a series of unchtime seminars for the University’s staff, students and interested members of the public. Through this forum, members of staff, graduate students and visiting lecturers associated with or visiting the Institute, are provided with the opportunity to share work in progress, present their views, exchange ideas and meet a cross-section of interested individuals. Special Public Lectures 2010 From One to Many: Techno-Politics, Revolution and the Art of the Possible IGDS International Women’s Day Special Lunchtime Seminar Alexis De Veaux, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies in the Department of Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Audre Lorde and the Longing for Home(land) Public Lecture event and IGDS Book Launch of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles Thomas Glave, Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at SUNY Binghamton, USA A Reading from Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Duke University Press, 2008) 2009 CGDS close of the 15th Anniversary Celebrations and the Commemoration of International Day Against Violence Against Women Public Lecture Eudine Barriteau, Professor of Gender and Public Policy/Deputy Principal, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados What Has Love Got to Do With It?: Sexuality, Work and Power in Caribbean Gender Relations 44 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 2008 Special Guest Lecture Anima Mama, Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, Mills College, California. Feminist Knowledge Production in Post Colonial Africa 2008 Feature Address Jocelyn Dow, Dreams of Singapore For the opening of the Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management Workshop 2007 A Public Lecture Tour Elinor Sisulu, Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime Funded by SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) Facilitated by the CGDS/ UWI, St. Augustine. This lecture tour was based upon her book, ‘Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime” and explored both the public and private domains, showing how, despite the political pre-eminence of Walter Sisulu, well-known anti-apartheid activist, colleague and friend of Nelson Mandela, Albertina stood as an equal partner in their marriage. The book, published in 1993, provides not only fascinating insight into their personalities, but also a useful case study in terms of the specificity of African feminisms and their contexts. 2003 Feature Address Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie Gender Studies Crossing Boundaries: Charting New Directions For the 10th Anniversary Public Lecture and Award Ceremony (Available as a monograph) This lecture traced the historical and intellectual process which led to the emergence of Gender Studies within the University of the West Indies, and the philosophical underpinnings, dilemmas and challenges that have shaped its direction over the years. She also interrogated the epistemological challenges which we had presented to the Caribbean academic tradition and the wider context of education within our region and the world. 2001 Valerie Youssef & Beverly- Ann Carter Guidelines for the Use of Non-Sexist Language at The University of the West Indies (Available as a monograph) The monograph seeks gender neutrality in the suggested terminology and lays down clear and comprehensive guidelines which encourage us to a consistent expression of this gender neutrality through a comprehensive documentation of gender imbalanced terms. Participants at the Gender, Peace & Human Enrichment Workshop, a collaboration between the IGDS and UNESCO, facilitated by EMERJ and Associates – a team of professionals involved in human empowerment, mediation and restorative justice, 2009 45 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Workshops, Seminars, Conferences The Institute also conducts occasional workshops on specific themes, often held in collaboration with other institutions and usually aimed at practicing professionals or activists in the relevant field(s). 2009 - 2010 Break the Silence Workshops The Institute for Gender and Development Studies in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Arts in Action implemented a series of workshops in 2009/2010 in three communities throughout Trinidad and Tobago aimed at: educating community members and service providers about • the effects of CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) /incest and HIV, and where to seek available services and resources; developing skills in CSA/incest risk assessment and protection, • and in managing the psychosocial needs of survivors; and collecting data on the knowledge, behaviours and perceptions • of community members around issues of CSA/incest, HIV and the link between the two. The workshops included teacher sensitization seminars, parenting workshops, child-centered activities and interactive, artistic and theatre-based workshops targeting youth, men, women, parents, community service providers, social and cultural groups and community activists. Funding and technical support for the workshops came from UNICEF and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women. 2009 Gender, Peace & Human Enrichment Workshop The IGDS partnered with UNESCO in the area of gender and peace building, at a time when, in our region, our gendered norms act as catalysts for much of the violence which threatens our development. This UNESCO funded project is facilitated by EMERJ and Associates; a team of professionals involved in human empowerment, mediation and restorative justice. 2009 Gender, Water and Ecosystem Management The WGWN — Women Gender and Water Network of the IGDS — held a one-day workshop with the main theme to integrate gender into water related research and development projects. Presentations included a reading of a short story and presentations on case studies in Jamaica and Haiti that highlighted the main issues surrounding gender and water. 2008 Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated Water Resources Management in the Caribbean The WGWN — Women Gender and Water Network of the IGDS — held a one-week workshop with the main theme Gender Mainstreaming In Integrated Water Resources Management, in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership and Caribbean WaterNet. Participants at the Gender, Peace & Human Enrichment Workshop, a collaboration between the IGDS and UNESCO, facilitated by EMERJ and Associates – a team of professionals involved in human empowerment, mediation and restorative justice, 2009 46 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 2007 Masculinities, Education and Criminal Justice One-day research symposium including presentations: Dialogue across the criminal divide: Mediation as an alternative presented by Dr. Wesley Crichlow; Is learning taboo and risk-taking compulsory for young men? Researching the relationship between masculinities, education and HIV presented by Prof. David Plummer; Gender differentials in education: Male underachievement in the school system. 2007 Legal and Policy Analysis on Sex Work in the Caribbean This workshop was held in collaboration with UNIFEM — United Nations 2006 One-Week Intensive Regional Course on Gender Sensitive Policy Making This workshop was held in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Caribbean Policy Development Centre 2005 Gender, Water and Natural Resources Management: a training Workshop 2004 Gender Sexuality and Implications for Substance Use and HIV/ AIDS Three-day symposium: part of a larger research project designed to examine Gender and Sexuality and its relation to HIV/AIDS and substance use in the Caribbean. The goal was to investigate the influence of gender norms, expectations, behaviours and the associated power relations on sexuality and the implication for substance use and HIV/AIDS risk and prevention in Trinidad and Tobago. 2003 Gender Law and the Legal Systems in the Caribbean Sub- Region Three-day workshop in collaboration with the Hugh Wooding Law School The audience at the IGDS public lecture, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, by Prof. Violet Eudine Barriteau, November 2009, marking the close of the 15th Anniversary celebrations of the CGDS, St. Augustine unit 2002/2003 Creative Strategies for Making a Difference in Secondary Schools: Reclaiming the Classroom One-week workshop held in collaboration with the Social Work Unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences. An interactive workshop with training in creative methods of teaching, understanding classroom dynamics, the interplay of gender and learning as well as understanding the impact of home life on learning, among other things. 2003 Creative Strategies for Making a Difference in Secondary Schools: Alternatives to Corporal Punishment Workshop Workshops conducted over 11 month period, complementing the school terms, targeting secondary school teachers and administrators within eight educational districts. 2001 Gender, Peace and Development Two-day workshop (within the framework of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) programme for Gender and a Culture of Peace) held in collaboration with the UNESCO Office for the Northern Caribbean, Jamaica, emphasised the influence of gender and peace and their effects on Caribbean development. 2001 Rethinking Economics: Does Gender Matter? One-day workshop in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) aimed at engendering debate on the ways in which gender analysis can influence the teaching and practice of economics. 2001 Key Issues facing Women in Science and Technology Two-day conference held in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences and NIHERST (National Institute for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology) focused on issues of key importance such as gender concerns in the teaching of Science and Technology and the dearth of data collection in this area. 47 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Cover designs for the DVD, The Nariva Swamp: A Contested Wetland, Issues of Gender and Sustainability, 2006 and the Video, Living With the Wetlands: Women, Men and the Nariva Swamp, 2002 puBlICatIons Online Journal: Caribbean Review of Gender Studies http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs This Open Access Online Journal is produced by the Institute for Gender and Development Studies. It showcases contemporary research in the area of women and gender studies relevant to the Caribbean. All correspondence or questions regarding submissions should be addressed to: Ms. Donna Drayton or Prof. Patricia Mohammed Institute for Gender and Development Studies The University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies Email: donna.drayton@sta.uwi.edu Audio Visual Publications 2003 to 2009 Documentary Series – A Different Imagination. Director, Patricia Mohammed 1. Introduction-A Different Imagination, 11 mins, edited by Brianne La Bauve and Lisle Waldron 2. Windows into the Past – 22 mins, edited by Luke Paddington 3. The Colour of Darkness, 17 mins, edited by Luke Paddington 4. The Sign of the Loa, 20 mins, edited by Luke Paddington 5. Coolie Pink and Green, 25 mins edited by Michael Mooleedhar,Soundtrack, Sharda Patasar 2008 Becoming Elsa Directors Patricia Mohammed and Hilary Nicholson, Editors Michael Mooleedhar and Christopher Ding Chong, Produced for the Regional Coordinating Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Mona 48 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 The launch of Professor Patricia Mohammed’s book, Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation, (Palgrave Macmillan) and the DVD documen- tary film series, A Different Imagination, on campus, 2010 2007 Engendering Change: Caribbean Configurations Mohammed, Patricia and Paddington, Luke 2006 The Nariva Swamp: A Contested Wetland, Issues of Gender and Sustainability DVD format Produced by Paddington, Bruce & Hosein, Gabrielle 2002 Living With the Wetlands: Women, Men and the Nariva Swamp DVD format Produced by Paddington, Bruce & Hosein, Gabrielle (video format) Book Publications By IGDS Staff Patricia Mohammed, 2009 Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation Macmillan, UK Parpart, Jane L and M. Zalewski (eds.), 2008 Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations. Zed Books, London, UK Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa, 2008 Environment and Citizenship: Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement Zed Books, London, UK Piya Pangsapa, 2007 Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand, ILR/Cornell University Press Ithaca, NY Reddock, Rhoda E. (ed.), 2004 Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses The UWI Press, Kingston Barriteau, Eudine V. (ed.), 2003 Confronting Power, Theorising Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean, The UWI Press, Kingston Mohammed, Patricia (ed.), 2002 Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought The UWI Press Parry, Odette, 2000 Male Underachievement in High School Education in Jamaica, Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Canoe Press and The University of the West Indies Barrow, Christine (ed.), 1998 Caribbean Portraits: Essays on Gender Ideologies and Identities. Ian Randle Publishers and CGDS Leo-Rhynie, Elsa, Barbara Bailey & Christine Barrow (eds.), 1997 Gender: a Multi-disciplinary Perspective. Ian Randle Publishers and CGDS Mohammed, Patricia & Catherine Shepherd (eds.), 1988 Gender in Caribbean Development. Women Development Studies Group, The University of the West Indies 49 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 IGDS Print Publications The Institute has a growing body of publications generated by staff, associate staff and research affiliates. Working Paper Series The Working Paper Series was an attempt to facilitate the discussion and debate of contemporary issues related to women and gender by regional and international affiliated scholars. The initiative was a cross-campus effort with each campus unit having its own series. Most of the papers in the St. Augustine series had been presented at the Institute’s Lunchtime Seminar Series. In 2007, this series was replaced by the On-Line Journal Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Please visit http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs Working papers can be obtained at the UWI bookstore and at the IGDS office. Participants at the Gender, Peace & Human Enrichment Workshop, a collaboration between the IGDS and UNESCO, facilitated by EMERJ and Associates – a team of professionals involved in human empowerment, mediation and restorative justice, 2009 Working Paper No. 1 Rawlins, Joan Mid-life and Older Women in Jamaica: Coping with Family Life and Work Situations September 1997. Working Paper No. 5 Morgan, Paula “Like Bush Fire in my Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance May 2002. Working Paper No. 2 Pasley, Victoria Black Power, Gender Ideology, Cultural Change and the Beginnings of Feminist Discourse in Urban Trinidad in the 1970s. September 1997. Working Paper No. 6, Maarit Laitinen Aspects of Gender in the Spiritual Baptist Religion in Tobago: Notes from the Field. May 2002 Working Paper No. 3 Lans, Cheryl & Neils Roling Feminist Methods: Women Traditional Health Knowledge and Ethnoveterinary Knowledge June 1998. Working Paper No. 7 Lazarus-Black, Mindie The Rite of Domination: Tales from Domestic Violence Court. November 2002 Working Paper No. 4 Lazarus-Black, Mindie Law and the Politics of Inclusion: Women’s Experiences in Antigua June 1998. Working Paper No. 8 Seguino, Stephanie Why are Women in the Caribbean So Much More Likely Than Men to be Unemployed? July 2004 50 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Occasional Bibliography Series Salisbury, Lutishoor Women in Science and Technology: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography May 1996 CGDS Public Lectures Series The Fifth Anniversary lecture Mohammed, Patricia Stories in Caribbean Feminism 1998 The Tenth Anniversary Lecture Leo-Rhynie, Elsa Gender Studies Crossing Boundaries 2003 The Tenth Anniversary Booklet The First Ten Years 1993-2003 McIntosh, Karel 2003 Guidelines for the Use of Non-Sexist Language Youssef, Valerie & Carter, Beverly-Ann CGDS, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine 2001 Boodram, Natalie Gender and the Environment: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography 1993 - 1996 February 1997 Elliott, Lirlyn Gender, Science and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide 1993 - 1996 February 1997 Boodram, Natalie Gender, Sexuality and the Implications for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean - An Annotated Bibliography July 2005 Jakub Kakietek (Ph.D. student, Emory University) presents his research Whose wicket is it really? Framing the HIV/AIDS response in Barbados - 1984 – 2009 at an IGDS lunchtime seminar, 2010 51 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS IGDS Office Hours: 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Assistance After Office Hours Sometimes students need academic advising or administrative assistance after IGDS office hours. Here are some guidelines for what you can do. Academic Advising on IGDS Courses and Programmes Please call 662-2002 exts. 3549/3548 during office hours to schedule an appointment with Dr. Gabrielle Hosein or Ms. Deborah McFee or to get assistance by phone. Alternately, please email to schedule an appointment during office hours or to send your query to Dr. G. Hosein or Ms. McFee at Gabrielle.Hosein@sta.uwi.edu or Deborah.Mcfee@sta.uwi.edu Photocopies For inquiries regarding photocopies please call Ms. Susan Jacelon 662-2002 ext. 3548 The IGDS provides a photocopy service for required course readings and for resources from the IGDS reading room. Black and white photocopies cost 30 cents per page, must be requested using a Photocopy Request Form (available at the IGDS) and must be paid for at the time of request. Usually, photocopies take 1-2 days to be ready for collection. The IGDS Reading Room Please visit the IGDS Documentalist Ms. Tessa Ottley on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 1.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. or call 662-2002 exts. 3573/3548 during these hours for information about resources in the IGDS Reading Room, or email Tessa.Ottley@sta.uwi.edu Students can call or write to Ms. Ottley indicating their research topic. If Ms. Ottley is not in office when a student wishes to use the Reading Room, she will leave available resources for the student. We do not loan any materials from the Reading Room and all resources are for reading or photocopy only in the IGDS. Students who wish to use the Reading Room after hours should contact Ms. Shahzadi Khan on 662-2002 ext. 3573 or email in order to arrange for the Reading Room to be made available. Thanks, IGDS A first year Gender Studies student participates in Popular Actions on campus, 2009 CONTACT INFORMATION IGDS - Institute for Gender and Development Studies The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies Tel: 868-662-2002 exts. 3549/3573/2533 Fax: 868-662-2002 ext. 3572 Email: igds@sta.uwi.edu • Website: http://www.sta.uwi.edu/igds FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES Ms. Avril Patterson-Pierre, Administrative Assistant Email: avril.patterson-pierre@sta.uwi.edu Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3549 FOR GRADUATE PROGRAMMES Professor Jane L. Parpart, Graduate Coordinator, Email: jane.parpart@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3568 Or Ms. Shahzadi Khan, Clerical Assistant Graduate Email: shahzadi.khan@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3577 FOR OUTREACH Ms. Deborah McFee, Outreach and Research Officer Email: deborah.mcfee@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3548 FOR READING ROOM RESOURCES Ms. Tessa Ottley, Documentalist Email: tessa.ottley@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3573 FOR ONLINE JOURNAL Ms. Donna Drayton or Prof. Patricia Mohammed For submissions Email: donna.drayton@sta.uwi.edu FOR PURCHASING OF PUBLICATIONS Ms. Suelan Chin, Clerical Assistant Email: suelan.chin@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3573 FOR SUBSCRIBING TO LISTSERVE Ms. Avril Patterson-Pierre, Administrative Assistant Email: avril.patterson-pierre@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3549 FOR IGDS WEB SITE / AND PRINTED MATERIAL Ms. Kathryn Chan, Research Assistant Email: kathryn.chan@sta.uwi.edu • Tel: 868-662-2002 ext. 3566 52 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Spotlight for the IGDS Haiti Relief Drive (left). Students on UWI Campus (right), St. Augustine, 2010 IGDS PROMOTIONAL ITEMS IGDS mouse pads and mugs and CRGS mugs are for sale. IGDS print and audio-visual publications are for sale. (See Publications sections) Please email or phone to request copies. IGDS mug CRGS Mug IGDS Mousepad The Nariva Swamp: A Contested Wetland DVD Living with the Nariva Swamp DVD 53 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 Break the Silence pin-on buttons, magnets, lapel pins are free of charge. Break the Silence posters are in two different editions, one for Trinidad and another for Tobago. They offer resource and contact information for counseling services, 24-hour hotlines, and service providers related to the issues of child sexual abuse, incest and HIV/AIDS. Break the Silence is an action research project, on issues surrounding Child Sexual Abuse, of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition Against Domestic Violence. It is funded by UNICEF and the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women. BTS National Poster BTS pin-on buttons or magnets 54 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 NOTES 55 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 NOTES 56 I n s t I t u t e f o r G e n d e r a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d I e s I n f o r m a t I o n B o o K l e t 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 NOTES INTRODUCTION TEACHING OVERVIEW UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME Minor in Gender Studies Minor in Gender and Development List of Undergraduate Courses GRADUATE PROGRAMMES Postgraduate Diploma in Gender and Development M.Sc. Programme in Gender and Development M.Phil. Programme in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Ph.D. Programme in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies List of Graduate Courses NON-DEGREE PROGRAMMES DISTANCE LEARNING Diploma in Gender and Development Studies The Summer Institute in Gender and Development ST AUGUSTINE CAMPUS Specialised Summer Courses RESEARCH Regional Research Programme St. Augustine Campus Research Programme Individual Staff Research , St. Augustine Campus International Collaborations Contract Research OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS CONTACT INFORMATION IGDS PROMOTIONAL ITEMS