Queerness and Decoloniality from the Global South
UndergraduateLTU-GSD3DDD2027
Course information for 2027 intake View information for 2026 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 21 Feb 2027
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,253
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Queerness and Decoloniality from the Global South
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Evaluate diverse positions/arguments regarding topics/debate.
- Present brief and persuasive argument to peers that focuses on GSDS issues within democracy.
- Produce an original piece of sustained complex written argument that can contribute to current public debate regarding diversity and democracy.
- Produce original, well researched response to relevant topic in GSDS.
- Summarise research and arguments regarding key debates relating to diversity within democracy.
- Work effectively and cooperatively in groups.
- Democracy and diversity
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Race
- Class
- Sovereignty and Indigenous politics
Do you want to learn more about how racism, colonialism, gender, and sexuality are deeply connected? Have you wondered about how decolonial perspectives can invite us to reimagine how we live, relate, and know? This subject invites you to explore those questions through a transnational lens that brings together race, queerness, and decolonial thinking.
Drawing on contemporary debates in decolonial and queer studies, we trace the links between racism, colonisation, capitalism, and different forms of past and present discrimination to examine how these forces continue to shape bodies, identities, and everyday life. You’ll learn how colonial power operates through race, gender, and sexuality, while also engaging with lived practices of resistance, care, and creativity. Rather than seeing the margins as sites of victimhood, this subject centres them as spaces of knowledge, innovation, and survival. Some of the topics discussed include: the coloniality of gender/sex, the nuclear family as a Western concept, indigenous kinship structures beyond gender/sex binary from different places of the world, current theories and activism from the margins in different places of the Global South.
Expect lively discussions, thought‑provoking readings, and hands‑on engagement with knowledge systems rooted in Indigenous, Black, Africana, negatively racialised, and colonised women’s and gender‑diverse communities from around the world with a particular emphasis in the so-called "Global South". You’ll be encouraged to question what you think you know, unlearn dominant assumptions, and explore new ways of thinking about justice, care, and liberation. By the end of the subject, you’ll be ready to critically engage with decolonial, queer of colour, and feminist politics, reflect on your own positionality, and imagine how decolonisation can reshape social futures—locally and globally.
This is a level 3 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.
- One class presentation followed by a Q&A (with an alternative for asynchronous students). Equivalent word count is 1000 words. (25%)
- Essay (1,800 words equivalent). (40%)
- Reading/writing exercises (equivalent to approximately 1400 words). A component of this activity (weight = 10%) is an early assessment task. (35%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Prerequisites: Students should have completed 45 credit points.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
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