Social Movements in Asia.

Catalog description

This course studies social movements in contemporary Asia. It introduces students to theories and methodologies that help them evaluate the origins, mobilization tactics, and organization of social movements. It examines factors such as ethnicity, race, gender, class, nationalism, politics, historical memory, and popular media in shaping a movement's trajectory and adopts a global and comparative approach to understand how social movements in Asia borrow from movements elsewhere and vice versa.