Power, Resistance, Protest

Undergraduate

This course explores how theories of power, resistance, and social change shape protest ethics and strategy. Students will learn how structuralist and poststructuralist ideas about power transform how feminists and anti-racists conceptualize protest and the role of protest in a larger political movement or campaign within a democratic state. Large public protest is never an end in itself and is always the culmination of much social change work, such as public education, letter writing, consciousness-raising, 139 Winter 2027 Undergraduate Calendar lobbying, boycotts, and other campaign strategies. Students will work to put their research and politics into action, designing and implementing key components of a political campaign illustrating what they are learning about effective protest design and strategy. (Prerequisite: ICWG-1000 or ICDS-2010) and one 3000-level Women's and Gender Studies or Disability Studies course, or consent of the instructor.)