Intersectional Gender Studies

Intersectional Gender Studies at Wageningen UR is an open space to develop and share knowledge in particular within the fields of food, agriculture, rural societies, rural environments and intersectional gender research. This space is meant to provide a coherent environment for cross disciplinary research on areas of international relevance, both practical and theoretical. Intersectional Gender Studies is quintessentially inter- or transdisciplinary.

Research and teaching faculty

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Our research

Intersectional Gender Studies research is both done by intersectional gender studies scholars within their own disciplines and as integrating such approach into research or education, also in bigger projects in which they cooperate on an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary basis.

Intersectional gender studies acknowledges heterogeneity among women, men and diverse genders. It aligns with black studies, queer studies and decolonizing initiatives by bringing in the gender dimension as intersecting with other social dimensions of inequality such as race/ethnicity but also wealth/class, race, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, locality and health and civic status.

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Minor and other education elements

Our BSc minor Gender and Diversity for Sustainable Worlds (WUGDS) is currently running in the first semester of the academic year.
The minor entails:
• GEO-59603 'Responsibilities for Equality and Sustainability' offering real-life contexts where students learn about and explore their position, the value of diversity, and their professional responsibilities and opportunities to a more equal and sustainable world.
• CPT 39806 'African Philosophy' exposing students to African frameworks of thinking and reasoning beyond their often Eurocentric epistemological horizons, teaching skills useful in self-reflection and intercultural dialogues.
• GEO-58306 'Gender and Diversity in Transnational Worlds' broadening students’ grasp of and their ability to critically apply a gender and diversity perspective on how everyday consumption shapes (in)equality and (un)sustainability.
• WRM 33806 'Gender and Natural Resources Management' building on students' knowledge and skills to examine relationships between gender and the (un)sustainable use of natural resources by applying intersectional gender-sensitive approaches.

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