[ecrea] Media, Gender & Culture Mumbai Summer School

King's College London Mumbai Summer School 2013


'Media, Gender & Culture'


15th - 22nd April, Mumbai


Course leader: Rachel O'Neill


How does gender organise social and cultural life? What role does media 
play in sustaining gender inequality? Can media be used as a resource 
for cultural politics and activism? By who, and in what ways? How can we 
approach critical issues of power and agency in the analysis of 
contemporary gender relations?


Running parallel to the London programme, the King's Mumbai Summer 
School programme will explore these and other questions, offering 
students the opportunity to study media, gender and culture in 
transnational perspective. As well as examining some of the central 
theoretical approaches to the study of gender, the course will offer an 
in-depth look at current debates over issues such as 'masculinity in 
crisis' and the 'sexualisation of culture'. We will explore the gendered 
dimensions of contemporary media and cultural trends, considering issues 
of gender and social change; power and representation; culture and 
agency; social critique and cultural politics. In dedicated workshops 
students will learn how to apply theory in the analysis of media texts, 
including screen and print media, as well as digital and online media. 
We will also take a number of case studies - such as the SlutWalk 
protest movement and the Blank Noise project - to examine the social and 
cultural context of gender inequality, and think through some of the 
ways social media might be used as a tool of social change. At all 
points the course will promote intersectional thinking, as we consider 
how gender intersects with other axes of power, such as sexuality, race 
and class. Students on this course will develop the knowledge and 
critical skills necessary to analyse gender, media and culture in global 
arena.


Registration for the King's Mumbai Summer School is now open.


For more information please visit:


https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/shortcourses/index/name/mediagenderandculture/keyword/international-programmes-short-courses


Administrative contact: (mumbai-summer /at/ kcl.ac.uk)


Academic contact: rachel.r.o'(neill /at/ kcl.ac.uk)

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