Module details for 2024/25.

30 credits

FHEQ Level 6

Module Outline

This course examines a long tradition of anti-colonial worldmaking and it explores how anti-colonial
and other traditions vision and seek to build alternative futures. Amid the throes of the liberal world
order and a racial capitalist system that has had devastating consequences, leaving behind a
legacy of colonial genocides, perpetual wars, mass incarceration, and environmental catastrophe,
we turn to look at Indigenous, abolitionist, Queer, and eco-anarchist theories and practices of
worldmaking. Using speculative fiction and assessments that invite us to look beyond prevailing
systems, we think with these traditions and their efforts to build alternative livable worlds and
futures.

Module learning outcomes

Identify and evaluate prevailing systems of power and how they
impact our lives and/or the earth.

Reflect on the connections between one’s own lived experiences and
the theoretical concepts traditions examined in the module.

Apply the theoretical concepts and claims examined in the module to
one or more empirical examples.

Critically evaluate the limits of current structures and systems of
powers.

Analyse the way one or more of the traditions examined in the
course envision alternative worlds; i.e. ways of being, relations and
conditions for collective life.

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

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