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Introduction

Michael Walzer on resistance, “The Idea of Resistance,” Dissent (Fall 1960)

Albert Camus, excerpt from The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (1951)

Get to Know You Exercises

“Four corners” exercise

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Micro-resistance

James Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance

In-class discussion

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Civil Disobedience and the Rebel

Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” [Civil Disobedience] (1849)

Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

Excerpt from “Eyes on the Prize” on Civil Rights Movement

Reflection paper No. 1 (500 words): post by noon and bring hard copy

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Prison

Michel Foucault, Part I (“Body of the Condemned”, “Spectacle of the Scaffold”), Discipline and Punish (1975)

California Parole Hearing transcript (first twenty pages)

In-class: Parole Hearing Preparation

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Holiday – no class  

California Parole Hearing transcript (finish)

Holiday – no class

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Prison

No reading. Prepare for parole hearing role-play today.

Parole Hearing Role-play

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Nuclear weapons and disarmament   

Susan Southard, Nagasaki (2015)

Guest Speaker, Susan Southard, author of Nagasaki

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Deportation

Papers, Violaine Schwartz

Deportation Hearing Role-play Preparation

Reflection paper No. 2 (500 words): post by noon and bring hard copy

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Deportation   

Deportation Legal Judgments

Deportation Hearing Role-play

In-class: For your final project, your group of three will creatively reinvent a legal text related to resistance. We’ll discuss how to choose a topic you’re passionate about. We’ll brainstorm the group can share and maximize its various skills—among them language, creative inclinations, analytical expertise, and disciplinary knowledge. How to design a project that is truly collaborative and centered around mutual learning? We’ll think out loud about this. 

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Violence / Nonviolence I 

Frantz Fanon, “Concerning Violence,” The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

In-class: “Battle of Algiers”

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Violence / Nonviolence  II     

M. K. Gandhi, chs. 1, 3, 4, 7, 13, 14, 25, 26, 34, 47, 55, 68, 72, 74, 104, and 165 of Non Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) (posth. 1961)

In-class: “Eyes on the Prize”

Reflection paper No. 3 (500 words): post by noon and bring hard copy

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Creatively Reinventing Legal Texts

No class

In your group of three, visit a place in Taiwan that connects in theme or form to your final project. Be ready to share with the class your findings.

No reflection paper.

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Decolonization

Hung-Ying Chen & Lachlan Barber, 2020. "CityPsyche—Hong Kong," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1-2), pages 220-232, March.

In-class: Students share thoughts and responses to their visits and brainstorm how to incorporate into final project.

No reflection paper.

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Difference  

June Jordan, “Letter from the Bahamas” (1982)

Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and “Age, Race, Class, and Sex” [1980], Sister Outsider (1984)

Reflection paper No. 4 (500 words): post by noon and bring hard copy

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Reimagining Legal Texts

Prepare and research final project.

In-class: Work on your final project, creatively reinventing a legal text of your choice; draw from theories, texts, and models in the class.

Create an annotated “archive” of sources that have inspired you.

No reflection paper for remaining semester.

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Reimagining Legal Texts

Prepare and research final project.

In-class: Work on your final project.  

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No class – holiday

Prepare and research final project.

No class – holiday   

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Reimagining Legal Texts

Prepare and research final project

Present final project.