Social Thought & Polic. Econ 492H - STPEC Focus Seminar II

STPEC students only STPEC 391H Strategies for Liberation: How can marginalized groups wield collective power? Why do social movements choose the strategies that they do? What makes them effective? This seminar explores these questions through a survey of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives on mass-based resistance. As we will see, scholars and organizers have offered many different answers. Case studies will come particularly from the U.S. context, but also from El Salvador, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. The last month of the semester will be partly structured around students? own interests, with each student researching a social movement of their choosing.