História dos Movimentos Sociais (not translated)
Code
711051155
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The main objectives are: a) getting to know the history of the most relevant social movements; b) acquiring knwledge that
will allow the student to develop future research on social movements. In order to came to terms with these, we will; a)
inform students of the state of the art in the historiographical field of social movements; b) focus on the relations between
history and other socials sciences and humanities; c) analyse the fundamental bibliography on the issue, exploring the
conceptual framework specific to the histroy of social movements.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1.The historiography of social movements.From E.P.Thompson to James C. Scott:popular politics and forms of
resistance.The contribution of Chales Tilly:respectability,unity,numbers and commitment
2.18th-19th centuries:Resistantes to the development of the State and the Market?From the moral economy of the English
crowd in the 18th century to the rebels and insurgents of the Portuguese 19th century
3.19th20th centuries:The proletarian public sphere and the workers movements as counter-society:self-management,
soviets and councils.Political currents,the trade-unions and the party-form: anarchists,communistas and social-democrats
4.1968.Many Mays:students,workers, politics.Paris, May 68.From the Italian 60s to the strikes of ABC paulista. Ecoloy,
feminism and social movements
5.Space.International division of labour, from the struggle against slavery to anticolonialist movements.Nationalist
movements.The case of migration and the right to escape.Globalization and social movements
Bibliography
Dias, B. & J. Neves (orgs.), A Política dos Muitos Povo, Classes e Multidão, Lisboa, Tinta-da-China, 2010.
Sá, F., Rebeldes e Insubmissos. Resistências Populares ao Liberalismo (1834-1844), Porto, Afrontamento, 2002.
Horn, G.-R., The Spirit of ´68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2007.
Linebaugh, P. & M. Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the
Revolutionary Atlantic, Boston, Beacon Press, 2000.
Offen, K., European Feminisms, 17001950, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000.
Scott, J., Weapons of the Weak Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1987.
Tarrow, S., Strangers at the Gates. Movements and States in Contentious Politics. Nova Iorque, Cambridge University Press,
2012.
Teaching method
Theoretical and pratical classes, including the analyses and discussion of data and historical documents, the presentation
and discussion of the research activities that will later be evaluated.
Evaluation method
The evaluation consists of: one written test (45%); one
written essay (45%); the presentation of one historical document (10%).