IPG Week 22 Workshop: Refining Revision Strategies for Upcoming Exams

1. Second Revision Workshop IPG, Week 22

2. Workshop Aims • Continue to draw connections across the module • Provoke refinements in your revision strategies • Think through the remaining topics – some key points • Discuss strategies in the exam room The Exam When? Wednesday 4 June, 9.30am Where? F107, Engineering

3. Revision Reminders • Material for revision includes: revision notes; lecture notes; core readings; seminar questions and notes; additional readings from module handbook; notes written as essay preparation; class essay content, additional material • Acquire, consolidate, organize material, then practice moulding it to particular questions • You need to cite authors as you write in exams: just a surname, no bibliography required, paraphrasing • Be as legible as you can, practice legible speed-writing • Any questions?

4. Topic by Topic Revision 1 • Work in small groups on one of the following topics: South Africa; India; Islam; Ireland; Global Capitalism • Identify which module concepts are particularly relevant (see next 3 slides). Then try to come up with three or four bullet points that reflect major issues/learning points for each week of this topic that you would need to keep in mind when revising it. Can you think of any authors/studies relevant to this topic? • You won’t remember everything – don’t worry, it’s not a test; it’s an opportunity.

5. Key Module Concepts • Sex (biological, fixed); Gender (social and cultural, constructed, mutable/ changeable/transformable); Gender Equality/Inequality • Feminisms; Post-feminism; women’s movement; agency; resistance • Gender divisions of labour, resources, opportunities, status; gender pay gap; horizontal and vertical gender segregation, double burden, triple shift, sexual harassment; labour market discrimination; beauty premium; symbolic gender roles - material gender roles; dominant discourses/narratives • Gendered identities/ subjectivities; performing gender identities; femininities / masculinities (plural both within contexts and between them, but with striking commonalities eg what’s expected of men and women in nationalism); crisis in masculinity; patriarchal premium; hyper masculinity; hyper femininity • Hidden curriculum; self-worth theory; laddishness; new sexual contract; post-feminist masquerade

6. Key Module Concepts Continued • Sexuality; heterosexism; compulsory heterosexuality; essentialism; social constructionism; nuclear family; diversity of family forms; symmetrical family; sexualisation of work; homophobia; sexual violence; gendered double standards   • State Socialism and Post-Socialism; patriarchal socialism; Soviet Union/USSR and Russian Federation; People’s Republic of China; collectivization; communes; collective ownership of means of production; proletariat; bourgeoisie; surplus value; socialization of reproductive work; son-preference; one-child policy, reproductive rights; sexual rights; perestroika; glasnost; Maoism; Confucianism; male-dominated peasantry; state propaganda; capitalism • Orientalism - the weaving into ‘knowledge’ of the idea that the west is innately superior to the east – ‘othering’; ‘legitimation’ of colonialism • Nationalism; nation-building; anti-natalist state; pro-natalist state; biological and cultural reproduction of nation; public sphere - private sphere/domestic sphere

7. Key Module Concepts Continued • Apartheid and Post-Apartheid; migrant labour system; anti-apartheid movement; institutionalised racism; one person one vote; intersections of gender, ‘race; and class; pass laws; bantustans; anti-apartheid movement; ANC; PAC; COSATU; UDF; Nationalist Party; white separatist; petty apartheid; sexual violence; gender-based violence; feminization of poverty • Colonialism & Imperialism (India, Ireland); welfarism; independence movements; partition; modernity/modernisation • Religious fundamentalism; hindutva; communalism; Islamic fundamentalism; Catholic fundamentalism?; unveiling; reveiling; Islamic Revolution; feminist theology; religious/secular feminism • Global capitalism; old international division of labour; new international division of labour; ISI; EOI; unionization; labour movement; runaway shops; NICs; Fair-trade; Ethical trade; contradictory effects on women’s status; nimble fingers; labour behind the label; codes of conduct; fairwashing

8. South Africa: Apartheid

9. South Africa: Post-apartheid

10. India: Colonialism and Nationalism

11. India: Post-colonial

12. Orientalism & Religious Fundamentalism

13. Islam and Iran

14. Islam: The ‘veil’

15. Ireland: Nationalism

16. Ireland: Modernization

17. Gender and Global Capitalism

18. Taking on Global Capital

19. Strategies in the Exam Room • Scenario 1: Your time management has gone awry and there’s 10 minutes left but you’re only half way through your answer to the last question. • What do you do now, and what could you have done earlier? • Scenario 2: You got started ok but now your mind’s gone blank and you feel you can’t remember anything. • What do you do now, and what could you have done earlier?

20. Topic by Topic Revision 2 • Work in small groups on a different one of the following topics: South Africa; India; Islam; Ireland; Global Capitalism • From what you can recall about each topic, identify which module concepts are particularly relevant. Then try to come up with three bullet points that reflect major issues/learning points for each week of this topic that you would need to keep in mind when revising it, together with relevant authors/research.