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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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. |