ANTH 199: INTRODUCTION TO DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
This course will ask how and why people organize for political change in the contemporary world. Our discussion will study activists, advocates and ordinary men and women involved in reimagining the world around them. What is the role of global media and new forms of technology for such organizing? How does one build coalitions across different cultural and linguistic traditions? Is there a global ‘youth’ culture that facilitates communication across national boundaries and among young people? Does democracy always mean the same thing, and if not, how do people come to define it?
1:00-2:20 pm, MW Davenport Hall 329
Instructor: Jessica Greenberg