Introduction Conceptualisations.pdf Introduction to course rationale and content

Group work before Tuesday literature seminar. Do a mini-social media or word-by-mouth research study on migrants' or international students' experiences of service industry jobs in Gothenburg. Are there any exploitative conditions that they warn about and would recommend others to look out for? Search social media forums where the issue has been discussed or pose questions in social forums or ask around in a personal capacity. In case you think you will use the case in your final assignment, tell your potential research participants about it. Tell them you will not reveal any names or personal details about them and that you will use your findings within the course. Alternatively, choose one of the issues the International Domestic Servant Federation is working with https://idwfed.org/our-work/domestic-workers/

Bring the results of the study to Tuesday's seminar. What points from Bahira Sherif Trask's text below do you think come to light in your findings? (1 or 2 is enough).

Essential reading:

Before you start reading this, see the study questions for Tuesday's literature seminar!

Trask, B.S. (2014). Chapter 2: Globalizing forces: Neoliberalism, Economic Restructuring, and the Transformation of the Global Workforce. In Trask, B.S. (Ed.), Women, Work and Globalization, Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge.

Further reading:

Elias, J. and Roberts, A. (2018). Introduction: Situating gender scholarship in IPE. In: Handbook on the international political economy of gender. Google book available here

Peterson, S.V. (2018). Problematic premises: positivism, modernism and masculinism in IPE. In: Handbook on the international political economy of gender. Google book available here

Marianne H. Marchand & Edmé Domínguez R. (2019) Labour and gender in a global context: contestations and backlashes, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 4:1, 1-8, DOI: 10.1080/23802014.2019.1657038 (Links to an external site.)

Marchand Marianne, Anne Sisson eds. 2011, Gender and Global Restructuring; sightings, sites and resistances. Routledge. 2^nd edition. Introduction (pp. 1-25), ch. 3 (Suzanne Bergeron pp. 66-78.). Conclusion and Post-script.

Waylen Georgina, 2004, “Putting Governance into the Gendered Political Economy of Globalization, International Feminist Journal of Politics 6.4, December 2004. Pp 557-578.

Hoskyns Catherine and Shirin M. Rai, 2005,“Gendering International Political Economy”, University of Warwick, CSGR Working Paper No 170/05. May 2005.