This is for a class on social movements and protest, it should reference common social movement techniques which could include all types of protests, social mobilization, political participation, and international cooperation. also grass roots movements, use of music, social media, slogans, appeal to human rights,nature,religious interpretations, and international law and political mechanism. also use can not instead of can’t. Same for don’t or shouldn’t, etc. Should have a section or sense of labeling things as social movements or not per the famous definitions of social movement like in the following:
Charles Tilly, Ernesto Castañeda, and Lesley J. Wood, Social Movements – 1768–2018 Fourth
Edition. Part I: A Theory and History of Social Movements, Chapter 1: Social Movements as
Politics, Pages: 3-18.
2. Sociology Reference Guide: Theories of Social Movements, 1st Edition (2014):
2.1. Jonathan Christiansen. “Social Movements & Collective Behavior: Four Stages of Social
Movements”, pages: 14-25.
2.2. Simone I. Flynn, “Types of Social Movements”, pages: 26-36.
2.3. Ruth A. Wienclaw & Alexandra Howson, “Major Social Movements”, pages: 37-45.
3. Donatella Della Porta and Mario Diani. Social Movements: An Introduction. Second Edition.
Chapter 1. The Study of Social Movements: Recurring Questions, (Partially) Changing
Answers. Pages: 1-29.
4. Alain Touraine (2002) The Importance of Social Movements, Social Movement
Studies, 1:1, 89-95,
Week 2 of June 9:
1. Resistance, Protest and Civil Disobedience – Foundational Language
Reading Materials
Henry David Thoreau – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi. Non-violent Resistance (Satyagraha): Non-Violent Direct Action. Pages: 5-13;
22-91; 194-204; 215-253; 270-294.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham City Jail.
1.2. TRADITIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN FOCUS: CASES FROM AROUND THE
WORLD
2. Reformative Social Movements
Reading Materials
1. The women’s Suffrage Movement
King, Brayden G., et al. “Winning Woman Suffrage One Step at a Time: Social Movements and
the Logic of the Legislative Process.” Social Forces, vol. 83, no. 3, 2005, pp. 1211–1234.
Louise Ryan, “An Analysis of the Irish Suffrage Movement Using New Social Movement Theory”
(https://www.academia.edu/34050391/An_Analysis_of_the_Irish_Suffrage_Movement_usin
g_New_Social_Movement_theory).
Virginia Sapiro, “The Power and Fragility of Social Movement Coalitions- The Woman Suffrage
Movement To 1870”. Boston University Law Review.
Cesar Guzman-Concha (2012) The Students’ Rebellion in Chile: Occupy Protest or Classic Social
Movement?, Social Movement Studies, 11:3-4, 408-415,
2. “Buy Nothing Day” Movement
Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson & Ellis Jones (2012) Lifestyle Movements: Exploring the
Intersection of Lifestyle and Social Movements, Social Movement Studies, 11:1, 1-20,
Ilana Boivie, “Buy Nothing, Improve Everything”, The Humanist (2003).
3. Environmental Movement
Luke Martell, Ecology and Society: An Introduction, Chapter 4, The Green Movement (University
of Massachusetts Press, 1994) 108.
Week 3 of June 16: Revolutionary Social Movements
1. Revolutionary Social Movements 1 – “Turning the Other Cheek” – Non-Violent
Direct Actions
Required Readings:
Gandhi’s speech on the eve of the salt March.
Mahatma Gandhi – The Quit India Speeches (August 1942).
Eduardo M Peñalver & Sonia K Katyal, “Property Outlaws” (2007) 155 U Pa L Rev 1095
Deidre B. Flowers – The Launching of the Student Sit-In Movement- The Role Of Black Women
at Bennett College, The Journal of African American History 90 (1-2), 52-63
Andrews KT, Biggs M. The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: Movement Organizations, Social
Networks, and News Media in the 1960 Sit-Ins. American Sociological Review.
2006;71(5):752-777.
Christopher W. Schmidt. “Why the 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Worked” 5 Ind. J.L. & Soc. Equal.
281 (2016)
Yohuru R. Williams, “American Exported Black Nationalism: The Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the Worldwide Freedom Struggle, 1967-
1972” Negro History Bulletin , (1997) Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 13-20
Perlstein, Daniel. “Teaching Freedom: SNCC and the Creation of the Mississippi Freedom
Schools.” History of Education Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3, 1990, pp. 297–324.
Julian Bond, “SNCC: What We Did”.
2. Revolutionary Social Movements 2 – From Turning the Other Cheek to Clenching
the Fist
X, Malcolm. “The Ballot or the Bullet” in George Breitman, ed, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected
Speeches and Statements (New York: Grove Press, 1994) 23.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 1963). Preface by Jean-Paul
Sartre, and Chapter 1: On Violence. Pages 1-95.
Week 4 of June 23:
1. Mass Protests, and the Arab “Four Seasons”
Taieb Belghazi & Abdelhay Moudden (2016) Ihbat: disillusionment and the Arab Spring in
Morocco, The Journal of North African Studies, 21:1, 37-49,
Habibul Haque Khondker (2011) “Role of the New Media in the Arab Spring, Globalizations”
8:5, 675-679.
Jeff Goodwin. “Debate: Why We Were Surprised (Again) by the Arab Spring”, Swiss Political
Science Review 17(4): 452–456.
Ekaterina Stepanova. “The Role of Information Communication Technologies in the “Arab
Spring” Implications Beyond the Region”. Ponars Eurasia, Policy Memo No. 159 May 2011.
Campante, Filipe R., and Davin Chor. 2012. “Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution?
Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring.” Journal of Economic Perspectives,
26 (2): 167-88.
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (2015) A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement,
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38:14, 2499-2515.
Desrues T. Mobilizations in a hybrid regime: The 20th February Movement and the Moroccan
regime. Current Sociology. 2013;61(4):409-423.
Sylvia I. Bergh & Daniele Rossi-Doria (2015) Plus ça Change? Observing the Dynamics of
Morocco’s ‘Arab Spring’ in the High Atlas, Mediterranean Politics, 20:2, 198-216.
“Did You Hear about the Black Panthers (Mizrahis)?
https://vimeo.com/71662328
2. PART II: RECONCEPTUALIZING PROTEST AND RESISTANCE
2.1. FROM THE STREETS INTO THE PRIVATE AND INDIVIDUAL
2.1.1. Embodied Resistance and Body Politics
Required Readings:
A Documentary: Saira Shah, “Beneath the Veil: The Taliban’s Harsh Rule of Afghanistan” (2001).
JRank Encyclopedia. “Body Politics, Feminism and Racial”.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction, translated by Robert Hurley
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1978) 133-159.
Chris Bobel & Samantha Kwan, “Introduction” in Cris Bobel & Samantha Kwan, eds, Embodied
Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules (Nashville: Vanderbilt University
Press, 2011): Introduction: 1-9.
Angela M. Moe, Belly Dancing Mommas: Challenging Cultural Discourses of Maternity, pages:
88-98.
Breanne Fahs and Denise A. Delgado, The Specter of Excess: Race, Class, and Gender in
Women’s Body Hair Narratives, pages: 13-25.
Jennifer A. Reich, Public Mothers and Private Practices: Breastfeeding as Transgression, Pages:
130-141.
Samantha Binford, From Rapunzel to G.I. Jane, Pages: 58-60.