Honours Specialization - Testimony and Witness
GEND 3216 Testimony and Witness
Prerequisites:
Any 18 credits
Antirequisites:
GEND 3057 if taken in 20FW
Hours:
3 hours of lecture/seminar per week for a total of 36
hours
Credits:
3
Description:
Students explore trauma theory, the ethics of recognition, Indigenous storytelling, transitional justice, and feminist perspectives to investigate the ethics of witnessing human rights abuses. Testimony to human rights abuse can play a powerful role in demands for justice, redress, and non-recurrence. Yet, testimony can also be met with denial, voyeurism, or misinterpretation. What conditions influence and shape both the sharing of traumatic experiences and the witnessing of human rights testimony?