Social movements and collective action have emerged in close connection with the development of structural inequalities, marginalization and exclusion on the one hand and the ideas of rights, social justice and entitlements, on the other. Different groups and organizations have built platforms of solidarity and mobilization to make claims and express their grievances targeting either the state or capital or international institutions. If in the past social movements or collective action have emerged and concentrated protest within nation-states or colonial states, with the increasing interconnectedness of different locations and social spaces, hierarchically or vertically, currently social movements have attained global dimensions.
This course will therefore examine and discuss social movements as part of global processes but also as being locally embedded. It will look at how local action is ‘externalized’ or become part of global action; and how global social movements are internalized; and how meanings change as politics of contention experience shifts in scale. By concentrating on specific cases we will look at the cultural, political and social dimensions of social movements. Theoretical debates generated within different disciplines in the social sciences and the contribution of anthropology to these debates will be discussed.
Coördinator
Dr. Marianne Maeckelbergh: mmaeckelbergh@fsw.leidenuniv.nl room nr. 3A29A (P. de la Court)
Dr. Ratna Saptari: rsaptari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl nr.3A33 (Pieter de la Court Building)
Onderwijsvormen
Lectures and class discussion: 14 weeks, 3 hours per week; weekly readings and assignments, and one research project with final paper
24 uur hoorcollege = 36 sbu
12 uur werkgroep = 24 sbu
600 pp. te bestuderen literatuur (waarover KAVV-opdrachten) = 100 sbu
10 pp. eigen werk (research project) = 80 sbu
Presentaties door studenten = 34 sbu (gezien als 4½ pp. eigen werk door student)
2 bijeenkomsten/practica van 3 uur waar presentaties worden gehouden = 6 sbu
Totaal: 280 sbu
Studiemateriaal
Selection of journal articles.
Toetsing
active participation in class discussion,
weekly AQCI assignments,
final research project.
Rooster
Time: Mondays 8 September – 8 December 2008, 14-17 h
Place: Room 5B02, Pieter de la Court building