Anthropology and Social Movements
Code
722170087
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
LO1. To learn, question and use the key-concepts on Social Movements and Anthropology;
LO2. To develop critical insights on Resistance and Social Movements, through critical reading of contemporary bibliographical references;
LO3. To improve oral and written competences and individual or team work;
LO4. To incorporate the seminar/course issues and debates in a research projects
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
P1.Introduction: resistance and social movements
P2. Theoretical and methodological approaches to social movements: (a) usages of memory; (b) culture and power; (c) social networks and social agents; (d) contexts and circumstances; (e) collective action, repertoires of resistance and protest cycles; (f) social movements, anthropology and history; (g) global issues, local movements and flows; (h) social change, political cleavages and collective action; (i) organizational issues, repertoires and phases
P3. Events and scale issues
P4. Resistance: between hidden transcript and public transcript
P5. \"Immediate Struggles\" social movements, routines of resistance and \"zones of refuge\": case studies
Bibliography
DELLA PORTA, Donatella; DIANI, Mário (1999) Social Movements: an introduction, London, Blackwell.
SCOTT, James (1985) Weapons of the weak - Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (1990) Domination and the arts of Resistance- Hidden Transcripts, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (1998) Seeing like a state How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
idem (2009) The Art of Not Being Governed, New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
Cambridge University Press.
TARROW, Sidney (1994) Power in movement - Social movements, collective action and politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
THOMPSON, E.P. (1971) [2008] A economia moral da multidão na Inglaterra do século XVIII, Lisboa,
Antígona.
Teaching method
The course is divided into theoretical and theoretical-practical lectures (by the professor and guests),
seminars and film exhibitions
During the course, students must develop several skills and competences based on Learning Objectives.
Different Teaching-learning methodologies will be used to achieve those objectives.
Methodologies of teaching-learning:
1. Expository, to present the theoretical frames of reference
2. Participatory ,with collective seminar debates
3. Active, with individual and team presentations
4. Self-Learning - autonomous work
Evaluation method
Presentation of a text (25%), attendance and participation (15%) and a written test (60%).