Psychology & Brain Sciences 492P - S-CivilResistance&SocialChange

This course focus on what has sometimes been called "everyday forms of resistance," "quite encroachments," or political "lifestyles" and "subcultures." It applies sociological perspectives on the "resistance" that is played out in the "everyday life" of "ordinary" people: a resistance that might be widespread and diffused, individual or small scale, implicitly political, disguised or even hidden. It brings to light how the "private" or "personal" can be political, and explores the creativity of "cultural resistance." A special attention is turned towards the "intersectionality" of both domination and resistance in the everyday life, and therefore the problematics of how resistance does not only liberate, but also recreate domination.