1

9/3

Introduction: Why Do Movements Matter Today?

Class orientation,

In-class sharing

Weekly reading/browsing

Iris Marion Young (2011). Responsibility for Justice, Oxford University Press. (Chapter 2. Structure as the Subject of Justice)



Almeida, Paul (2019) Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization, CA: University of California Press. (Chapter 2. How to Study Social Movements)

CIVICUS (2024) Monitor Tracking Civic Space: People Power under attack 2024 [online resource]. Available at: https://monitor.civicus.org/globalfindings_2024/ (Accessed 18 February 2025).

2

9/10

Spectatorship vs. Solidarity

(Pre-class) Weekly Reflective Journal

(In-class) Lecture, group discussion

Weekly reading

Lilie Chouliaraki (2012) The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism, read short excerpt of Chapter 1

3

9/17

Democracy Movements:

Whose People, What Power?

(Pre-class) Weekly Reflective Journal

(In-class) Lecture, group discussion

Weekly reading or listening

Ng, M. K. (2020). The Making of ‘Violent’ Hong Kong: A Centennial Dream? A Fight for Democracy? A Challenge to Humanity? Planning Theory & Practice, 21(3), 483–494.  

Insight Myanmar│Episode #347: Dispatches from the Edge

Chronology on Chile’s inequality crisis

4

9/24

          Movements, Ideologies & Values: Marxism, Anarchism and Beyond

(Pre-class) Weekly Reflective Journal

(In-class) Lecture, group discussion

Weekly reading

David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Ch. 1 or summary)

bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (Ch.1-2)

Erik Olin Wright, “Real Utopias” (excerpt)

5

10/1

Tactics & Ethics: Nonviolence, Direct Action, Sabotage

6

10/8

 Housing & Anti-Eviction Movements

(Pre-class) Weekly Reflective Journal

(In-class) Lecture, Individual/group sharing (2-3 slots), Discussion

Weekly reading

Cociña, C. and Frediani, A. (2024). Towards housing justice. Four propositions to transform policy and practice. IIED, London.

Available at https://www.iied.org/22321iied

Extensive materials

International Tribunal on Evictions https://www.tribunal-evictions.org/

Housing Justice Network https://www.instagram.com/housing.justice.network/

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/

7

10/15

 Preservation Struggle of Huanmin New Village (Toad Hill), Taipei

Extracurricular Visit

8

10/22

Mid-term Formative Proposal

2-3 pages proposal/workplan to be shared and discussed in class

Submission of your team-based formative proposal/workplan:

 

1) To select a theme/topic you concerned and/or track relevant social/civil movement

2) To narrate your ‘problematics’- what is at stake in this particular theme? What motivates your interest?

3) How will you be exploring/ contouring the civil/social movement (i.e. by secondary data collection, participant observation and/or interview)? What are the anticipated medium/output?

9

10/29

Gender and LGBTQIA+ Struggles

Weekly Reflective Journal

Lecture, Individual/group sharing (2-3 slots), Discussion

Weekly reading

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

10

11/5

Labor & Class Struggles

Weekly Reflective Journal

Lecture, Individual/group sharing (2-3 slots), Discussion

11

11/12

Guest lecture: Ecological Movements & Indigenous Resistance

(Prof. Yi-Hsuan Chen)

7Weekly Reflective Journal

Lecture, Individual/group sharing (2-3 slots), Discussion

12

11/19

Guest lecture: Land & Environmental Struggles in Taiwan (Po-jen Hsu)

(Pre-class) Weekly Reflective Journal

(In-class) Lecture, Individual/group sharing (2-3 slots), Discussion

13

11/26

Rethinking Movements on War & Peace

Workshop on Zine-making

14

12/03

Transnational & More-than-human Struggles: SAVE International

15

12/10

Digital Rights & Open Technology Advocacy

Guest speaker: Dr Mei-Chun Lee

(Academia Sinica)

16

12/17

Final Presentations & Reflective Circle