Reflection (M6)
This module shifts from theorizing intersectionality to applying it in policy praxis, emphasizing both the critical assessments of policy through an intersectional lens and learning about creating policies within an intersectional paradigm.
We begun this module by considering central aspects of an intersectional approach, not only for policy analysis but also relevant to research, knowledge creation and teaching. This includes attending to:
- intersecting categories
- multi-level analysis
- power relations
- reflexivity
- specifics of time and space,
- diverse knowledges
- social justice and equity
We encountered a number of tools and tool kits designed to investigating how the above commitments or tenets of intersectionality are or can be operationalized.
The assigned resources for this module locate and explain two different frameworks for intersectionality-based policy analysis – the IBPA and the IIBPA, the Indigenous intersectionality-based policy analysis.
Throughout the unit, students are encouraged to use the policy analysis tools to reflect on their own work.
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA WGS 498/GSJ 598 