Jan. 23rd Meeting

First IP Group Meeting

Jonathan and I met at Kofenya for our first meeting. We checked in with one another to see how we were doing. We are both in Peter Magolda’s Fieldwork Inquiry seminar as well as Lisa’s seminar, so we talked about ways in which the courses are enhancing one another. We split up the reading for the week, so I shared feminist theory and critical race theory with Jon, and he focused on critical theory as a whole. We talked about the overlap in political focus of the three approaches, and also chatted about the ways in which each theoretical perspective focuses on a particular population (excluding critical theory as a whole). I taught Jon a bit on feminist discourse outside of what the text offers in terms of different kinds of feminism (liberal, radical, etc.). We both liked the way that we could focus more deeply on a chapter or two versus having a broad understanding of all three.