Sociology, history and literary arguments about race, citizenship and double consciousness. Read the framing of a passage alongside the evidence it uses.
Freedom, ambiguity and the social making of gender. Connect philosophical claims to the historical situations and exclusions the text examines.
An account of historical explanation, social organisation and political power. Compare a narrative claim with the social conditions offered to explain it.
Colonial domination, racialisation and lived experience. Keep the historical scene, the speaker and the form of explanation visible while reading.
Education, race, gender and practices of freedom. Begin with who can speak, whose experience counts and what a learning institution permits.
Historical and political arguments connecting race, class and gender. Look for the institutions and coalitions that make a general claim concrete.
Coalition, world-travelling and the colonial organisation of gender. Attend to the terms of an encounter and the standpoint from which it is described.
Land rights, gender and participation in environmental governance. Distinguish nominal membership from the ability to influence a decision.
Narrative memory, language and the afterlives of slavery. Distinguish a character’s recollection, a narrator’s arrangement and a historical claim.
Fiction and essays that reconsider social arrangements, gender and the technologies of ordinary life. Examine the assumptions built into a fictional world.
Historical and philosophical work on scientific explanation, gender and the language of biology. Examine what a metaphor makes researchers look for.
Situated knowledge, technoscience and relations among species. Ask where a knowledge claim is made, what it can see and what responsibilities it carries.
Computer vision and human-centred approaches to AI. Study the relationship among a dataset, a benchmark and the people affected by a system.
Research on dataset documentation, evaluation and harms in machine learning. Begin with how data was collected and which uses its documentation supports.
Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.
Research on AI’s material, labour and political conditions. Trace a system beyond its interface to extraction, human work and data infrastructures.
Environmental organising and connections among ecological conditions, livelihoods and political participation. Trace the institutions as well as the trees.
