Media, Civil Resistance, Civil Disobedience

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Our history is crossed by civil resistance/civil disobedience movements whose characteristics, struggles, tools and weapons are developed, transmitted, and reinvented over time. This notion is at the heart of current events, witnessing movements of citizen protest, social opposition, Marches (for the climate) and other actions of disobedience. From Thoreau to Gandhi, from Martin Luther King to the Extinction Rebellion movement, from Radio Londres (1940-1944) to the fight for the defense of Larzac (1971-1981), from the English suffragettes to the Arab Spring, from the Folles de la Place de Mayo to Occupy Wall Street, from the Otpor movement in Serbia to Joshua Wong in Hong Kong, how are these specific movements born and nourished? How do the media play a role in the development or resonance of these actions, from the press of yesteryear to modern media? Analysis, story and deciphering of what we call 'civil resistance/civil disobedience' and the forms taken today, in democratic countries and in authoritarian countries, in the light of history, between yesterday and today.