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9/1
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Introduction: What Is Resistance?
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What is resistance?
Choose one time period, one character, and one city/village in the world. You will keep a physical diary of the class and pretend to be this person. Use each reading to inspire you to write an entry imagining this person’s life. Bring this diary to every class.
Homework: Reading & Diary entry.
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2
9/8
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Hidden Transcripts
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James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance
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Homework: Reading & Diary entry.
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3
9/15
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Everyday Resistance
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Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1980)
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Homework: Reading & Diary entry.
Homework: find a letter written from prison
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4
9/22
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Michel Foucault
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Discipline and Punish
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Homework: Reading & Diary
In-class simulations of discipline and power
In-class film: Eyes on the Prize
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5
9/29
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Teachers Day/No School
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No School Today (Teachers Day)
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6
10/6
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Nonviolent Resistance
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Civil Disobedience
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Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
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No School Today (Moon Festival). But please be ready to discuss the Martin Luther King and Ashis Nandy reading on 10/13
Homework: Reading & Diary entry.
In-class showing Mangrove
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7
10/13
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Nonviolent Resistance
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Civil Disobedience
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Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
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Homework: Reading & Diary entry.
In-class film: Blue Island
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8
10/20
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Anticolonial Resistance
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Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth
Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning
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Homework: Reading & Diary entry.
Group assignments on researching individual animals
In-class documentary film: Blackfish
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9
10/27
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Animal and the Natural World
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Elizabeth Barber, Standing Trial – on animals
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In-class activity community forum about animals.
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10
11/3
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Environmental Resistance
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Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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In-class simulation of environmental resistance movement
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11
11/10
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Feminist Resistance
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June Jordan, essays
Emmeline Pankhurst My Own Story (1914)
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Brainstorm your final project topics; everybody brings to class a letter or diary entry.
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12
11/17
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Histories
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Finalize your diary entries; be ready to share with the class.
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In-class: Share your diary entries from the past semester.
Work on project proposals.
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13
11/24
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In lieu of class, please be prepared to go to the National Human Rights Museum
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Submit project proposal
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No class—trip to National Human Rights Museum (planned on a different day)
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14
12/1
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Anarchism
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Emma Goldman, Anarchism
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In-class: I will give you time to work on your final project related to a topic of your choice (so long as it is related to resistance)
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12/8
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Final Projects on Topics of Your Choice Related to Resistance
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Final Project Preparation
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In-class: I will give you time to work on your final project related to a topic of your choice (so long as it is related to resistance)
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16
12/15
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Final Presentations
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Present your final project.
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