Social Movements, Culture, and Activism
This class examines social movements and activism from an ethnographic perspective. Case studies will examine movements across the globe. Topics to analyze include: what socio-cultural contexts shape, and are shaped by, social movements? How do social movements organize themselves, and what meanings or belief systems do they appeal to?
Outcomes: familiarizing students with the ethnographic analysis of social movements; analyzing the socio-cultural effects of global commodity flows, secularization, environmental pollution, corporate power, migration and other political issues; examining how people resist, reproduce and alter relations of power; and introducing students to the broader field of political anthropology.
Outcomes: familiarizing students with the ethnographic analysis of social movements; analyzing the socio-cultural effects of global commodity flows, secularization, environmental pollution, corporate power, migration and other political issues; examining how people resist, reproduce and alter relations of power; and introducing students to the broader field of political anthropology.