Anthropology of Social Movements

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing number of social and political upheavals around the world. With new organizational principles, diversified ways of participation and mediation, and expanding themes and goals, these cases, in bringing the political near to us, also challenge our familiar ways of thinking and doing politics. They are testing the limit of our imagination of a bounded ¿social movement¿ in the forms such as street protest and civil obedience, as well as the limit of analysis. This course explores the uses of anthropological theories in engaging with a politically animated world.