LEVEL ONE
EQUL10020 Global Justice
Semester 2
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Teaching Contact: Professor Kathleen Lynch
The objective of this module is to equip students with an integrated understanding of global inequalities, and to examine ways of creating a more sustainable and egalitarian world. The module will enable students to analyse inequalities across the economic, political, social and cultural spheres of global society. Covering a range of related topics, students will engage with issues of trade and aid, health, food, the environment, gender relations, migration, and the way in which people and global events are represented in a European context. The module will also address the role of global institutions (e.g. World Trade Organisation, international financial institutions, the United Nations) in challenging and perpetuating injustice. Throughout, the module will outline ways in which social injustices are being, and might be, challenged at the local and global levels in ways that seek to create a more egalitarian world.
EQUL 10060 Inequality in Irish Society
Semester 2
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Teaching Contact: Professor Kathleen Lynch
In spite of the vast wealth created in Ireland in the so-called `Celtic Tiger¿ years, Ireland remains one of the most
deeply unequal societies within the European Union. How do we explain the persistence of injustices in a relatively
wealthy country like Ireland and how can we bring about change?The aim of this course is to enable students to
develop a critical understanding of human-rights-related inequalities in Irish society and to identify ways of
addressing these. It will use a range of academic materials and sources from different disciplines, including case
studies and electronic resources, to develop a critically informed orientation. The course will be taught through a
series of lectures and seminars. The active participation of students will be encouraged through dialogue and
discussion.The course has three main objectives:1. It will map human-rights-related inequalities in Ireland for
different social groups to enable students understand the scope and depth of injustices 2. It will provide students
with conceptual frameworks to enable them analyse the roots of these inequalities 3. It will identify frameworks for
action that will promote social justice and respect for human rights in Ireland The course will focus on 4 major types
of human-rights-related inequalities and how each of these can be explained and addressed in Ireland:1. Economic
Inequalities 2. Political Inequalities 3. Cultural and Status Inequalities 4. Affective Inequalities (inequalities in
access to care, love and solidarity of all kinds and in the doing of care work)
LEVEL 2
EQUL 20010 Childhood Inequalities in a Global Context
Semester 1
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Teaching Contact; Ms Karen Smith
The aim of this module is to enable students to develop a critical, multidisciplinary child-centred perspective on childhood inequalities in the global context. Throughout the module differences in the understanding and experience of childhood in selected poor majority-world countries will be a key focus. There will be particular emphasis on the interaction between the local and the global in terms of the political, economic and cultural conditions which shape childhoods around the world. The module will examine such issues as child-adult relations, children's education, poverty, health, child labour, children's care worlds, and children's rights and statuses. The ways in which gender, social class, ethnicity/race, disability, regional location and other differences impact on inequalities between children will also be examined in both minority and majority world contexts. Overall the module will provide students with a clear set of conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for critically analysing and challenging global inequalities between children
EQUL20050 Social Justice Movements
Semester 2
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Teaching Contact: Professor Kathleen Lynch
While most research and teaching on global justice focuses on the causes and manifestations of injustice, this
module explores what has been achieved globally through the activities of a wide range of social-justice-based
movements. It will focus on what is possible, showing students how social movements have worked over history to
create a better world. The overall objective of this module is to provide students with a theoretically-informed
understanding of social justice movements. It will enable them to develop academic frameworks for analysing why
some movements succeeded and others were less successful. It will use a case study approach, drawing on the
work of different scholars to provide frameworks for analysing different movements. The course will be taught
through a series of lectures and seminars. The active participation of students will be encouraged through dialogue
and discussion.
EQUL20060 Gender and Development
Semester 1
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Teaching Contact: Professor Kathleen Lynch
The objective of this module is to enable students to understand the role of gender relations and inequalities in
processes of development, both at local and global levels. The module will provide students with the tools to
understand and analyse gender relations and inequalities in their myriad forms, and will enable them to consider
different approaches to development through a gender lens. The impact of North-South power relations and global
inequalities on gender and development, and the role of local and global feminisms, will be explored throughout.
The module will address topics and issues such as economics, poverty, development, sexuality and sexual health,
gender based violence, conflict, representation, and the role of men and masculinities. Overall, the module will
provide students with critical conceptual and analytical tools for understanding and aiming to transform gender
relations within an unequal world. We encourage you to search for other School of Social Justice modules in
Equality Studies and Women¿s Studies.
LEVEL 3
EQUL30080 Men Masculinities and Gender Relations
Semester 2
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Teaching Contact: Professor Kathleen Lynch
The objective of this module is to enable students to understand and critically analyse the relationship between
masculinity and equality. The module will explore theoretical influences on contemporary Masculinity Studies,
which take seriously the challenges posed to men by feminist, gay, and other egalitarian movements. Placing a
central focus on men and masculinity the module will analyse gender relations across economic, socio-cultural,
political, and affective spheres of social life. Gender dynamics, including relations between different groups of men,
are considered in relation to inequalities of resources, respect and recognition, power and decision-making,
working and learning, and love, care and solidarity. The module will include contexts and topics shaped by
sexuality, disability, social class, 'race', ethnicity, and nationality, family and paternity, health, and age and
generation. A central tenet of the module is to address how gender injustices can be challenged and key to this is
considering men's lives in both political and (inter) personal terms.