Critical Reflection|Business
You will write what I call, a critical, feminist and intersectional economic self mapping exercise by engaging at least two class readings of your choice. This means examining your identity formation through the lens of economics — how have you come to make sense of who you are, your associations, your affiliations and how they collectively inform/influence your understanding of economics. This isnot a research essay, but rather sustained engagements with the terms, themes, and theories surfacing for you in the class readings and discussions. The reflection will allow you to think through your own positionality within economic power structures (i.e. racism, sexism, classism, able-ism, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism), hierarchies, systems and institutions (i.e. gender, heterosexuality, marriage, household/family, nation, etc.). The reflection will give you a chance to examine your own access, analytics, and actions through which you have come to understand the economic self, economic “others†and the “economic†worlds. In this way, these reflections situate you as an active participant in meaning-making, world-making and community-building. Your paper will engage: race, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, spirituality, sexuality, family, immigration and other aspects of your identity and their intersections. The written reflection will be three-pages double-spaced, 12 font and 1-inch margins.Â
