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SOCIOLOGY 465
CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Spring 2017
Class Time: Monday- 2:00 to 4:45 PMClassroom: 2BSB 4105Class Time: Monday- 2:00 to 4:45 PMClassroom: 2BSB 4105
Class Time: Monday- 2:00 to 4:45 PM
Classroom: 2BSB 4105
Class Time: Monday- 2:00 to 4:45 PM
Classroom: 2BSB 4105
Instructor: Atef SaidOffice: 4146A BSBEmail:
[email protected]: (312) 4133-761Office Hours: Monday, 11:30-1:00pm and by appointment.Instructor: Atef SaidOffice: 4146A BSBEmail:
[email protected]: (312) 4133-761Office Hours: Monday, 11:30-1:00pm and by appointment.
Instructor: Atef Said
Office: 4146A BSB
Email:
[email protected]
Phone: (312) 4133-761
Office Hours: Monday, 11:30-1:00pm and by appointment.
Instructor: Atef Said
Office: 4146A BSB
Email:
[email protected]
Phone: (312) 4133-761
Office Hours: Monday, 11:30-1:00pm and by appointment.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class is divided into five sections. The first section is devoted to general introduction of social movements, where we discuss some basic questions such as: what are social movements and why some people join movements and other do not. The second section is devoted to four key theoretical frameworks, which are considered canonical, or dominant, in social movement research today. These are: resource mobilization theory, framing theory, political process framework and contentions politics framework. While we discuss these theories we will touch upon some relevant issues such as social movement organizations, and social movements and identities and repertoires of contention. The third section is devoted to examining few critical issues that are relevant to social movements today such as questions of the role of social media and technology at large in relation to social movements, the role of leadership and grassroots organizing and or spontaneity in organizing, the role of nonviolence in social movements and the implications of regime's repression in social movements. The fourth section is devoted to four key contemporary social movements and episodes of contentions. These are: the Arab Spring uprisings, occupy movements, Black Lives Matter and right wing and conservative movements. We will end the class with some concluding readings on the future of social movements and research.
It is important to note that there are so many key issues that we are not discussing in this class such as questions of social movements and networks, coalitions and social movements, movements and politics in general, the role of emotions, space and geographies of social movements, the so-called new social movements and earlier theories of social movements that are no longer dominant in the filed today. The main rationale behind this organization is to spend more time reading about and analyzing specific important contemporary movements and episodes of contention. This will make the class more accessible and enjoyable. This will also enable students to make sense of the social movements scholarship in general and the theories we are examining throughout the semester.
CLASS OBJECTIVES:
The class has two objectives. After this class, students should be:
Familiar with key issues and debates in social movement scholarship. Students may not become experts on social movement scholarship, but I promise you, you will be knowledgeable about the canonical theories in social movement research.
Able to apply these theories on some of the most important and contemporary movements in today's world.
READINGS AND COURSE MATERIALS:
There are two books required for this course. Both are available for purchase at the UIC
bookstore. These are:
Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper, eds. The social movements reader: Cases and concepts. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
van Stekelenburg, Jacquelien, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, eds. 2013.The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.
In addition to these required books, the readings will be available on BB, and some readings are available online. Also please note that some of the required readings are available online or as e-books via the UIC library.
The source of the readings will be indicated in the syllabus, as follows:
TB- Text Book
BB – Reading is available on Blackboard
e-book – Available as e-book via UIC Library
Online- The reading is available online and link is provided in the syllabus.
In addition to these materials, there are three types of materials that we will discuss. They are only recommended for you to consult.
Movies. We will watch short movies about social movements in the class. I will provide the link to these when we watch them.
Optional readings. Note that there is a list of optional readings in the syllabus. As the name suggests, these are only optional/recommended. I have listed them in the syllabus for you to consult if you need further readings on the respective topics we discuss. Also these will be of high value to you when you write your papers.
Other sources: There are plenty of sources on social movements available in the library and online. I am suggesting here that you consult this source: Mobilizing Ideas, which is a Blog Managed by the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame. The blog includes many short articles and important debates between activists and scholars of social movements. link of the blog is here:
https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/
ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION:
As you know, we are meeting only once a week. Attendance in this class is very critical to succeed in this class. Missing one class means missing a significant portion of class materials. Not only students will start lose participation grades when they miss the class, they will be also at high risk of missing class quizzes which are important components of the class work, as explained below. Students are allowed to ONLY ONE unexcused absence during the semester. Every time student misses a class, without excuse, after the first time, she/he will lose 10 % of the participation grade. Students who will miss three classes without excuse will receive 0 % of the participation grade. Acceptable excuses are only medical or family emergency with documentation.
Participation entails that students have already read the materials and be active in discussing these in class. This includes, but not limited to, raise questions, connect readings, address the usefulness and or the problems or the limitations of the materials, or any form of active involvements in the class discussion.
CLASSROOM AS A COMMUNITY:
This is an advanced level class. It is one of the main goals in this class is to critically think about class materials. In this class, we discuss variety of topics, many of which are political. It is our shared responsibility as instructor and students to make sure that the class is a safe space for every student. Everyone has the right to express his or her opinion in a respectful and productive manner without being interrupted or distracted. Cell phones, iPads, and laptops are only to be used for class purposes (taking notes, and/or looking at readings). Students will be alerted only one time if they were using these devices outside the class purposes. After one warning, the continuation of this behavior will result in a deduction of 5 % of your participation points.
ASSIGNMENTS:
The main assignments in the class are three papers and four in-class quizzes.
Papers:
Students are required to write three 5-7-page papers. Each paper should include consulting and referencing at least 3 readings from class materials. Paper are due 5:00 PM on safeassign in the link that will be available to students in Blackboard, except for the final paper which will be due 1:00 PM on May 3, 2017. The topics of the paper will be on sections 2, 3 and 4 respectively. The final paper will be about one of the movements we study in the class on section 4. Students can choose to write about another movement of their interest but they have to obtain the approval of the instructor first.
In all cases, students are very encouraged to be in constant communications with the instructor to discuss their papers and get advice and feedback. The instructor will be very pleased to provide them with suggestions and readings for their papers, specially if they chose to work on social movements' topics and theories that are not included in the syllabus.
The exact times of the papers will be as follows:
1/30 Paper 1 Announced
2/27 Paper 1 Due
3/6 Paper 2 Announced
3/27 Paper 2 Due
4/3 Final Paper Announced
W 5/3 at 1: 00 PM (Final Paper Due)
Quizzes:
There will be three quizzes in class during the semester. Each quiz includes questions from the readings of the respective day. Students should not worry about the quizzes. Quizzes will have multiple options. Quiz questions will about general concepts and issues in the readings. They will be straightforward and not tricky. But students who did not read would not be able to answer the questions.
GRADE DISTRIBUTION:
Class grade will be distributed as follows:
20 % attendance and participation (10% each)
15 % in-class quizzes (3 quizzes)
20 % Paper 1
20 % Paper 2
25 % Final Paper
KEEPING ME IN THE LOOP: SPECIAL NEEDS, EMERGENCIES, ETC.
Students with special needs should contact me as early as possible in the semester, and provide documentation. Students who have unexpected family problems, or issues that can affect their focus and work should let me as soon as possible. There are so many resources in campus that can help you free of charge. Do not wait to the last minute to tell me about these issues.
CLASS SCHEDULE AND READINGS
SECTION 1
Introduction and What are Social Movements?
Monday 1/9/2017. Introduction 1
General Introduction to the course and the syllabus. Then we will watch the movie "Everyday Rebellion" (2013) in class, followed by discussion. The movie is written and directed by Arman T. Riahi. More info about the movie here:
http://www.everydayrebellion.net/the-riahi-brothers/
Monday 1/16 MLK Day- No Class
Monday 1/23--- Introduction 2- What are social movements?
Required:
Della Porta, Donatella, and Mario Diani. 2009. Social Movements: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Chapter 1: The Study of Social Movements, pp 1-32 (BB)
Goodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper. 2014. Editors Introduction. In Jeff Goodwin, and James M. Jasper, eds. The social movements reader: Cases and concepts. pp 1-8. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.(TB)
Gurr, Ted Robert. Why men rebel. Routledge, 2015, Intro for the 40th Anniversary edition. pp ix-xx (BB)
Snow, David, and Sarah Soule. 2010. A Primer on Social Movements. New York: W.W.
Norton. Chapter 1: "Conceptualizing Social Movements," pp1–23. (BB)
Optional:
McAdam, Doug, and Sidney Tarrow. 2013. "Social Movements and Elections: Toward a
Broader Understanding of the Political Context of Contention." In The Future of
Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed.
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 325-346 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Moss, Dana M., and David A. Snow. 2016. "Theorizing Social Movements." In Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory. Springer International Publishing, pp. 547-569. (BB)
Touraine, Alain. 1985. "An Introduction to the Study of Social Movements." Social
Research vol 52, no 4: 749–87. (BB)
SECTION 2
Canonical Theories of Social Movements
Monday 1/30 -Resource Mobilization and Organizations (Paper 1 Announced)
Required:
Edwards, Bob, and John D. McCarthy. "Resources and social movement mobilization." The Blackwell companion to social movements (2004): 116-152. (BB)
Garner, Roberta, and Mayer N. Zald. "Now We Are Almost Fifty! Reflections on a Theory of the Transformation of Social Movement Organizations." Social forces . 91, no. 1 (2012): 3-11. (BB)
Ling, Peter. "Social capital, resource mobilization and origins of the Civil Rights Movement." Journal of Historical Sociology 19, no. 2 (2006): 202-214. (BB)
McCarthy, John D., and Mayer N. Zald. "Resource mobilization and social movements: A partial theory." American journal of sociology (1977): 1212-1241. (BB)
Optional:
Jenkins, J. Craig. "Resource mobilization theory and the study of social movements." Annual review of sociology (1983): 527-553. (BB)
Soule, Sarah. 2013. "Bringing Organizational Studies Back into Social Movement Scholarship," In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 107-124 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
McCarthy, John, and Mayer N. Zald. "Social movement organizations." The social movements reader: Cases and concepts (2003): 169-186. (BB)
Zald, Mayer N., and John D. McCarthy. "Social movement industries: Competition and cooperation among movement organizations." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 3 (1980): 1-20. (BB)
Monday 2/6- Framing, Culture and Identities
Required:
Benford, Robert D., and David A. Snow. "Framing processes and social movements: An overview and assessment." Annual review of sociology (2000): 611-639 (BB)
Ryan, Charlotte and William Gamson. 2014. "Are Frames Enough? (From "The Art of Reframing Political Debate"). In Goodwin and Jasper, pp 167-174. (TB)
Snow, David A., E. Burke Rochford Jr, Steven K. Worden, and Robert D. Benford. "Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation." American sociological review (1986): 464-481. (BB)
Snow, David. 2013. "Identity Dilemmas, Discursive Fields, Identity Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity–Movement Nexus." In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 263-280 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Optional:
Benford, Robert D. "An insider's critique of the social movement framing perspective." Sociological inquiry 67, no. 4 (1997): 409-430. (BB)
Chesters, Graeme, and Ian Welsh. "Rebel colours:'Framing' in global social movements." The Sociological Review 52, no. 3 (2004): 314-335. (BB)
Eyerman, Ron. "How social movements move: Emotions and social movements." Emotions and social movements (2005): 41-56. (BB)
Polletta, Francesca, and James M. Jasper. "Collective identity and social movements." Annual review of Sociology (2001): 283-305. (BB)
McAdam, Doug. "Culture and social movements." In Culture and Politics, pp. 253-268. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2000. (BB)
Monday 2/13- Political Process Framework
Alimi, Eitan Y., and David S. Meyer. "Seasons of change: Arab Spring and political opportunities." Swiss Political Science Review 17, no. 4 (2011): 475-479. (BB)
Meyer, David S., and Suzanne Staggenborg. "Movements, countermovements, and the structure of political opportunity." American Journal of Sociology (1996): 1628-1660. (BB)
McAdam, Doug. 1996. "Conceptual Origins, Current Problems and Future Directions."
In Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings, ed.
Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer Zald, 23–40. New York: Cambridge University Press. (BB)
Tilly, Charles. "To explain political processes." American Journal of Sociology (1995): 1594-1610. (BB)
Optional:
Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper. "Caught in a winding, snarling vine: The structural bias of political process theory." In Sociological forum, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 27-54. Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 1999. (BB)
Meyer, David S., and Debra C. Minkoff. "Conceptualizing political opportunity." Social forces 82, no. 4 (2004): 1457-1492. (BB)
Walder, Andrew G. 2009. "Political Sociology and Social Movements." Annual Review
of Sociology 35:393–412. (BB)
Monday 2/20- Contentions Politics and Repertoires of Contentions
Alimi, Eitan Y. 2016. "Repertoires of Contention." The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. Oxford U Press- Series: Oxford Handbooks. pp 410-422 (BB)
Tilly, Charles, and Sidney Tarrow. 2006. Contentious Politics. New York: Oxford
University Press. Chapter 2, "How to Analyze Contention," 27–44. (BB)
Tilly, Charles. 2010. Regimes and Repertoires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 3 and 4, "Repertoires of Contention" and "Repertoires, Meet Regimes,"30–89. (Available via UIC e-Book subscription–look up the book title using the E-journals button on the Library homepage http://library.edu/ and link to the full text.)
Optional
McAdam, Doug, and Sidney Tarrow. 2011. "Introduction: Dynamics of Contention Ten
Years On." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 16, no. 1: 1–10. (BB)
Tarrow, Sidney. "Cycles of collective action: Between moments of madness and the repertoire of contention." Social Science History 17, no. 02 (1993): 281-307. (BB)
Tilly, Charles. "Mechanisms in political processes." Annual review of political science 4, no. 1 (2001): 21-41. (BB)
SECTION 3
Critical Issues and Contemporary Social Movements
Monday 2/27 – Social media and new forms of organizing (Paper 1 Due)
Earl, Jennifer, Jayson Hunt, Kelly Garret and Aysenur Dal. 2016. "New Technologies and Social Movements," in The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements (Oxford Handbooks) 1st, edited by Donatella della Porta (Editor), Mario Diani (Editor), pp 355-366 (BB)
Kafka, Alexander. 2017. Why Millennials Don't Want to Run for Office. The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 4. (BB)
Poletta, Francesca, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes. 2013. "Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest?" in In The Future of
Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed.
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 17-36 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Shames, Shauna. 2015. Millennials don't want to run for office. The Washington Post. February 24, 2015. Available in this link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/24/millennials-dont-want-to-run-for-office/?utm_term=.e99cd52b1d3d (Online)
Snow, David A., and Dana M. Moss. 2014. "Protest on the fly toward a theory of spontaneity in the Dynamics of Protest and Social Movements." American Sociological Review Vol. 79(6) 1122 –1143 (BB)
Sutherland, Neil, Christopher Land, and Steffen Böhm. (2014) Anti-leaders (hip) in social movement organisations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups." Organization 21, no. 6: 759-781. (BB)
Optional:
Davies, Jonathan S. "Why Hierarchy Won't Go Away: Understanding the Limits of 'Horizontalism'." Available at SSRN 2066812 (2012). (BB)
Farrell, Henry. "The consequences of the internet for politics." Political science 15, no. 1 (2012): 35. (BB)
Morris, Aldon, and Suzanne Staggenborg. "Leadership in social movements." The Blackwell companion to social movements (2004): 171-196. (BB)
Western, Simon. "Autonomist leadership in leaderless movements: anarchists leading the way." Ephemera 14, no. 4 (2014): 673. (BB)
Youmans, William Lafi, and Jillian C. York. "Social media and the activist toolkit: User agreements, corporate interests, and the information infrastructure of modern social movements." Journal of Communication 62, no. 2 (2012): 315-329. (BB)
M 3/6- Violence/Non-violence and Repression (Paper 2 Announced)
Required:
Earl, Jennifer. "Tanks, tear gas, and taxes: Toward a theory of movement repression." Sociological Theory 21, no. 1 (2003): 44-68. (BB)
Engler, Mark, and Paul Engler. 2016. This is an uprising : how nonviolent revolt is shaping the twenty-first century. Nations Books. Chapter 1: The Strategic Turn. Pp 1-30. (BB)
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson. "Nonviolent Resistance Research." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 20, no. 4 (2015): 415-426. (BB)
White, Peter B., Dragana Vidovic, Belén González, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and David E. Cunningham. "Nonviolence as a Weapon of the Resourceful: From Claims to Tactics in Mobilization*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 20, no. 4 (2015): 471-491.(BB)
Optional:
Earl, Jennifer. "Political repression: Iron fists, velvet gloves, and diffuse control." Annual Review of Sociology 37 (2011): 261-284. (BB)
Goldstone, Jack A. 1998. "Social Movements or Revolutions?" In From Contention to
Democracy, ed. Marco Giugni, Douglas McAdam, and Charles Tilly, 125–45.
Lanham, MD: Rowman &Littlefield. (BB)
Moss, Dana M. "Transnational repression, diaspora mobilization, and the case of the Arab Spring." Social Problems (2016): 63 (4): 480-498. (BB)
SECTION 4
Case Studies
M 3/13 Arab Spring Uprisings
Required:
Abul-Magd, Zeinab. "Occupying Tahrir Square: the myths and the realities of the Egyptian revolution." South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 3 (2012): 565-572. (BB)
Bayat, Asef. "The Arab Spring and its surprises." Development and Change 44, no. 3 (2013): 587-601.(BB)
Kurzman, Charles. "The Arab spring uncoiled." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 17, no. 4 (2012): 377-390. (BB)
Yom, Sean. "The Arab Spring: One Region, Several Puzzles, and Many Explanations." Government and Opposition 50, no. 04 (2015): 682-704. (BB)
Optional:
Bennani-Chraïbi, Mounia, Olivier Fillieule, and Sarah-Louise Raillard. "Towards a sociology of revolutionary situations." Revue française de science politique 62, no. 5 (2012): 767-796. (BB)
Brownlee, Jason, Tarek Masoud, and Andrew Reynolds. "Why the modest harvest?." Journal of Democracy 24, no. 4 (2013): 29-44. (BB)
Goldstone, Jack A. "Cross class Coalitions and the Making of the Arab Revolts of 2011." Swiss Political Science Review 17, no. 4 (2011): 457-462. (BB)
Harlow, Summer, and Thomas J. Johnson. "The Arab spring" overthrowing the protest paradigm? how the new york times, global voices and twitter covered the egyptian revolution." International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): 16. (BB)
Pace, Michelle, and Francesco Cavatorta. "The Arab uprisings in theoretical perspective–an introduction." Mediterranean Politics 17, no. 2 (2012): 125-138. (BB)
M 3/20 SRPING BREAK
M 3/27 Occupy Movements (Paper 2 Due)
Required:
Calhoun, Craig. "Occupy wall street in perspective." The British journal of sociology 64, no. 1 (2013): 26-38.(BB)
Gitlin, Todd. "Occupy's predicament: the moment and the prospects for the movement." The British journal of sociology 64, no. 1 (2013): 3-25. (BB)
Smith, Jackie, and Bob Glidden. "Occupy Pittsburgh and the challenges of participatory democracy." Social Movement Studies 11, no. 3-4 (2012): 288-294. (BB)
Tarrow, Sidney. "Why Occupy Wall Street is not the tea party of the left." Foreign Affairs 10 (2011). (BB)
Optional:
Berman, Jillian. 2013. Occupy Wall Street Actually Not At All Representative Of The 99 Percent, Report Finds. January 29. Huffington Post. Available in this link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/occupy-wall-street-report_n_2574788.html (online)
Glasius, Marlies, and Geoffrey Pleyers. "The global moment of 2011: Democracy, social justice and dignity." Development and Change 44, no. 3 (2013): 547-567. (BB)
Juris, Jeffrey S. "Reflections on# Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation." American Ethnologist 39, no. 2 (2012): 259-279. (BB)
Halvorsen, Sam. "Beyond the network? Occupy London and the global movement." Social Movement Studies 11, no. 3-4 (2012): 427-433. (BB)
Langman, Lauren. "Occupy: A new new social movement." Current Sociology (2013):
61(4) 510–524 (BB)
Milkman, Ruth, Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis. 2013. Changing the Subject: A Bottom-Up Account of the Occupy Wall Street in New York City. Report for the Murphy Institute. City University, New York. The Report is available in this link: http://ht.ly/he6Ea (online)
M 4/3 Black Lives Matter (Final Paper Announced)
Required:
Cobb, Jelani. 2016. The Matter of Black Lives: A new kind of movement found its moment. What will its future be? The New Yorker. March 14. Available in this link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/where-is-black-lives-matter-headed (online)
Garza, Alicia. 2014. "A Herstory of the #Black Lives Matter Movement." The Feminist
Wire, October 7, 2014. Available at: http://www.thefeministwire.com/ (online)
Ransby, Barbara. 2015. "Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless
Movement." Color Lines, June 12, 2015. Available at: http://www.colorlines.com/
articles/ella-taught-me-shattering-myth-leaderless-movement (online)
Ransby, Barbara. 2015. "The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter." Dissent, Fall 2015.
Available at: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/class-politics-black-livesmatter (online)
Terry, Brandon M. 2015. "After Ferguson." The Point, no. 10. Available at:
http://thepointmag.com/2015/politics/after-ferguson (online)
Optional:
Bonilla, Yarimar, and Jonathan Rosa. "# Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States." American Ethnologist 42, no. 1 (2015): 4-17. (BB)
Chatelain, Marcia, and Kaavya Asoka. "Women and Black Lives Matter." Dissent 62, no. 3 (2015): 54-61. (BB)
Dennis, Andrea. "Black contemporary social movements, resource mobilization, and black musical activism." (2016). Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, 2016
UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-28 (BB)
Freelon, Deen Goodwin, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark. "Beyond the hashtags:# Ferguson,# Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice." Available at SSRN (2016). Study Published by Center for Media and Social Impact, Washington DC. Pp 1-92. Available online in this link: http://archive.cmsimpact.org/sites/default/files/beyond_the_hashtags_2016.pdf (online)
Harris, Fredrick C. "The Next Civil Rights Movement?." Dissent 62, no. 3 (2015): 34-40. (BB)
Rickford, Russell. "Black Lives Matter Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle." In New Labor Forum, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 34-42. SAGE Publications, 2016. (BB)
Yancy, George, and Judith Butler. "What's Wrong With 'All Lives Matter'?." New York Times 12 (2015): 156. (BB)
M 4/10 Right Wing and Conservative Movements
Required:
Blee, Kathleen M., and Kimberly A. Creasap. "Conservative and right-wing movements." Annual Review of Sociology 36 (2010): 269-286. (BB)
Blee, Kathleen. 2013. "Racist and Right-Wing Extremist Movements in the U.S.: Two Things Scholars Know, One Thing Scholars Don't Know, and the Implications for Antiracist Activism." Mobilizing Ideas. Blog Published by the Center of the Study of Social Movements. Notre Dame University. October 1. Available in this link: https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/racist-and-right-wing-extremist-movements-in-the-u-s-two-things-scholars-know-one-thing-scholars-dont-know-and-the-implications-for-antiracist-activism/ (online)
Hartman, Andrew. 2016. "Trump: Out of the Shadows of the Sixties Social Movements." Blog Post. U.S. Intellectual History Blog. November 23. Available in this link: http://s-usih.org/2016/11/trump-out-of-the-shadows-of-the-sixties-social-movements.html (online)
Williamson, Vanessa, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin. "The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism." Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 01 (2011): 25-43. (BB)
Optional
Berbrier, Mitch. ""Half the battle": Cultural resonance, framing processes, and ethnic affectations in contemporary White separatist rhetoric." Social problems 45, no. 4 (1998): 431-450. (BB)
Burris, Val, Emery Smith, and Ann Strahm. "White supremacist networks on the Internet." Sociological focus 33, no. 2 (2000): 215-235. (BB)
Cooter, Amy Beth. "Neo Nazi Normalization: The Skinhead Movement and Integration into Normative Structures." Sociological inquiry 76, no. 2 (2006): 145-165. (BB)
Hutter, Swen and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2013. Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right Reconsidered. In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 281-298 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Lo, Clarence YH. "Countermovements and conservative movements in the contemporary US." Annual Review of Sociology (1982): 107-134. (BB)
McAdam, Doug. 2016. Making Sense of the Rise and Impact of Donald Trump. Article Published in Scholars Strategy Network. June. Available in this link:
http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/brief/making-sense-rise-and-impact-donald-trump (online)
SECTION 5
Conclusion and the Future of Social Movements
M 4/17 Conclusion -1
Benski, Tova, Lauren Langman, Ignacia Perugorría, and Benjamín Tejerina. "From the streets and squares to social movement studies: What have we learned?." Current sociology 61, no. 4 (2013): 541-561. (BB)
Flowers, Margaret and Kevin Zeese. 2015. After Year Of Victories, Social Movements Are Gaining Momentum for 2016. Blog Post in Occupy.com. December 29. Available in this link: http://www.occupy.com/article/after-year-victories-social-movements-are-gaining-momentum-2016?qt-article_tabs=0#sthash.avIdBNmd.dpbs (online)
Jacquelien, van Stekelenburg and Conny Roggeband. 2013. Introduction: The Future of Social Movement Research. In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. xi-xxii Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Kooptmans, Ruud. 2013. "The End of Social Movement as We Know It? Adaptive Challenges in Changed Contexts. In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 315-324 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Optional:
Della Porta, Donatella. 2015. The Re-emergence of a Class Cleavage? Social Movements in Times of Austerity. In Donatella Della Porta, Social movements in times of austerity: Bringing capitalism back into protest analysis. Pp 1-25 John Wiley & Sons, 2015. (BB)
Ferree, Myra Marx. Discussion: Meaning and Movements in the New Millennium: Gendering Democracy, In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 419-428 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Markoff, John. 2015. Introduction: A Quick History of Modern Democracy: Democratic (and Anti-democratic) Waves. In John Markoff. Waves of democracy: Social movements and political change. Pp 1-15 Routledge, 2015. (BB)
M 4/24- Conclusion- 2 (LAST CLASS)
Della Porta, Donatella. 2013. Social Movements, Power and Democracy: New Challenges, New Challengers, New Theories? In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 347-368 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
Klamdermans, Bert. 2013. Afterword. In The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes, ed. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans, pp. 429-438 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (TB)
W 5/3 at 3:00 PM (Final Paper Due)
