Social Thought & Polic. Econ 492H - STPEC Focus Seminar II
Fall
2019
01
4.00
Stellan Vinthagen
TU 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
33651
Machmer Hall room W-32
vinthagen@soc.umass.edu
A four credit honors seminar for STPEC students who have completed STPEC 391H. Focus seminar topic changes each semester. Fulfills the STPEC Focus seminar requirement.
STPEC students only STPEC 391H Civil Resistance Against Foreign Occupation
This course is focused on understanding the resistance in dealing with foreign occupation. In several places around the world people are living under military occupation from a foreign state, e.g. in Tibet, West Papua, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Palestine and Western Sahara. Occupied people have tried to resist over decades, with armed rebellion as well as unarmed resistance mobilizations. Very little seems to work effectively, although it is clear that a combination of local mobilization and international involvement is necessary, like in East Timor and Kosovo. In several places we have seen an interesting shift from armed insurrections into unarmed ones.
We will study the theories of resistance, occupation and the various particular contexts of these struggles. We will analyze, develop ideas and strategies for how people can liberate themselves through unarmed means of resistance. Students will be able to do their own studies of certain aspects of these liberation struggles.
This course is focused on understanding the resistance in dealing with foreign occupation. In several places around the world people are living under military occupation from a foreign state, e.g. in Tibet, West Papua, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Palestine and Western Sahara. Occupied people have tried to resist over decades, with armed rebellion as well as unarmed resistance mobilizations. Very little seems to work effectively, although it is clear that a combination of local mobilization and international involvement is necessary, like in East Timor and Kosovo. In several places we have seen an interesting shift from armed insurrections into unarmed ones.
We will study the theories of resistance, occupation and the various particular contexts of these struggles. We will analyze, develop ideas and strategies for how people can liberate themselves through unarmed means of resistance. Students will be able to do their own studies of certain aspects of these liberation struggles.