GSS · ANARCHIVE — PLANETARY JUSTICE MAP · SYLLABUS SHAPE

Gendered Networks of Revolutionary Solidarity

A 15-week standalone course taught with the Planetary Justice Map. Undergraduate register throughout; the GRAD variant makes each unit's core work historiographic and methodological, plus a term-long independent thread added to the map. Print-friendly; adapt freely (see the map's METHOD for licence and standards).

Arc of the course

WEEK 0

The map is an argument

Interface critique before content: projections, basemaps, what a node is, what a line asserts.

Map work: Pathway PW-01 (How to Read a Claim on This Map), in class.

GRAD: add readings in critical cartography and digital humanities method; seminar on the annotation/reading line as epistemology.

WEEKS 1–2

Evidence

Sources, precision classes, verification labour; the archive's geography.

Map work: the source-geography lens; each student verifies one “pending” citation. Deliverable: verification memo.

GRAD: critique the host-domain classifier (METHOD); propose and defend an alternative provenance metric.

WEEKS 3–5

Clandestinity and occupation — RAWA

Where politics happens when public politics is forbidden: founding, press, exile schools, witness.

Map work: Story Map I; concept nodes Clandestinity; care lens over RAWA. Deliverable: 500 words on solidarity-as-infrastructure.

GRAD: historiography of clandestine archives — what can never enter this map, and how should an instrument mark it?

WEEKS 6–8

The bridge — Claudia Jones

Theory before it had its name; press, carnival, deportation as diffusion.

Map work: Story Map II; concept node Superexploitation; Pathway PW-02. Deliverable: the 300-word genealogy.

GRAD: Jones's 1949 essay against Crenshaw 1989 — a genealogy seminar; test the map's adjacency claim as historiography.

WEEKS 9–11

Land, kin, extraction — Nenquimo & Gualinga

Indigenous feminisms against the resource frame; law, cosmology, lineage.

Map work: Story Map III; concept node Kawsak Sacha; Pathway PW-03 (Motherhood as Political Grammar). Deliverable: the comparison table.

GRAD: the ethics unit — protective imprecision, TK Labels as community governance, living-figure relationships (METHOD's ethics section is the primary text).

WEEK 12

The lines that aren't there

Negative space, the tie-drawing rule, the silence of the roster.

Map work: Pathway PW-04 (Read the Map Against Itself). Deliverable: the 500-word critique.

GRAD: the alternative-ontology design proposal (PW-04 grad deliverable), workshopped.

WEEKS 13–15

Studio

Students add; peers verify; a version ships.

Map work: node proposals against the METHOD schema and rubric; peer verification of every citation to a stable URL before acceptance; end-of-term version bump with a changelog naming contributors.

GRAD: the term-long independent thread (a proposed node cluster or concept genealogy) is presented and defended as the final.

Assessment map

Verification memo (10%) · unit deliverables ×3 (30%) · adversarial critique (20%) · studio node proposal with peer-verified citations (30%) · participation in pathways (10%). The METHOD rubric is the grading rubric for the studio — criteria and epistemic standards are the same document.

Prep: no software beyond a browser; every assigned view is a stable URL (use COPY VIEW). Low bandwidth: pathways and dossiers print to text. Accessibility: reduced-motion honoured; keyboard navigation across nodes; non-colour thread encoding via labels. Content notes: Story Map I links (does not show) footage of an execution; the dossier flags it — tell students before assigning. What this course deliberately does not cover: comprehensive movement histories; the map is a research instrument with a scoped roster, and its silences are themselves assigned (Week 12).