Learning in Social Movement

Catalog description

Movements and activism are important sites of learning and creativity. As people organize, they experiment with new ways of relating to the world and educating one another. Anthropologists have examined movements as cultural practice, focusing on how people create meanings, develop identities, and generate knowledge. In this course, students will study contemporary activism in the US concerning issues such as race, the environment, food, housing, and migration. We ask: What knowledge(s) and ways of learning emerge within movements? In what ways does this learning support or undermine learning for democracy? How do collectives teach and learn “justice" and what futures do they enact in the present? Students will complete projects that allow them to learn from the local community.