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SOCI 378/CMNS 385: Rebel with a Cause: Social Movements in History and Popular Culture (Rev. C3/C3) Report a Broken Link

Sociology 378/Communications Studies 385: Rebel with a Cause: Social Movements in History and Popular Culture is a three-credit, intermediate-level course that explores the “causes” of social movements that have arisen to answer or solve contemporary social and environmental problems. Course readings, resources, and assignments give attention to social movements, in theory and practice, in history and contemporary times, and in relation to popular culture.

Unit 1: Social Movements in History and Popular Culture

Tolley, B., Martin, S., & Gilchrist, K. (2012). Families of sisters in spirit: Solidarity and relationship-building in the family-led movement on behalf of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Our Schools Our Selves, 21(3), 133–140.
Mills, C. W. (1959). The promise. In The sociological imagination (pp. 3–11). New York: Oxford University Press.
Hall, B. L. (2012). “A giant hashtag”: Learning and the #OCCUPY movement. In B. L. Hall, D. E. Clover, J. Crowther, & E. Scandrett (Eds.), Learning and education for a better world: The role of social movements (pp. 127–140). Rotterdam, NL: Sense Publishers.
9T9media. (2012, March 1). This is what democracy looks like (Seattle 1999 WTO) [Video file].

Unit 2: Lenses on Ecological Social Movements

ahoj639. (2013, August 2). (1998) Fury for the sound—the women at Clayoquet [Video file].
Brownhill, L. (2007). Gendered struggles for the commons: Food sovereignty, tree-planting and climate change. Women and Environments International, Special Issue on Women and Global Climate Change, 74/75, 34–37.
Morin, B. (2017, August 28). Standing Rock music video hip-hop artists take home MTV VMA.” CBC News.
Taboo. (2016, December 4). Stand up / Stand n rock #NoDAPL (official video) [Video file].
Wood, L. J. (2015). Idle No More, Facebook and diffusion. Social Movement Studies, 14(5), 615–621.

Unit 3: Fenceline Activists and Environmental Causes

Tobocman, S., Turner, T., Brownhill, L., & Ogden, L. (2004). Nakedness and power. World War Three Illustrated, 35, 55–63.
Shadaan, R. (2015). “I know my body…they lied”: Environmental justice and the contestation of knowledge claims in Institute, WV and Old Bhopal, India. Canadian Woman Studies, 31(1/2), 65–74.
Turner, T. E., & Brownhill, L. (2007). Climate justice and Nigerian women’s gift to humanity. Women and Environments International, 74/75(Spring/Summer), 47–48.
York, D. (Director). (2011). Wiebo’s war [Motion picture]. National Film Board of Canada.

Unit 4: Gender, Race, Class, and Food Justice Social Movements

White, M. M. (2011). Sisters of the soil: Urban gardening as resistance in Detroit. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, 5(1), 13–28.
Brownhill, L., Kaara, W. M., & Turner, T. E. (2015). Building food sovereignty through ecofeminism in Kenya: From export to local agricultural value chains. Canadian Woman Studies, 31(1/2), 106–112.
Taylor, B. (2013). Aborphilia and sacred rebellion. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 7(3), 239–242.
BrattleboroTV2. (2018, April 6). Taking root: The vision of Wangari Maathai [Video file].

Unit 5: Social Movements and Social Change

Isla, A., & Rubio, X. (2015). Report on the Climate Change Conference (COP 20), Lima, Peru. Canadian Woman Studies, 31(1/2), 44–50.
Mossett, K., & Caldwell, R. (2016). “Inside is such a sterile place”: Organizing with the Indigenous Environmental Network. Socialism and Democracy, 30(2), 203–208.
Giacomini, T. (2015). Ecofeminism and system change: Women on the frontlines of struggle against fossil capitalism and for the solar commons. Canadian Woman Studies, 31(1/2), 95–101.
Lewis, Avi. (Director). (2015). This changes everything [Film]. Klein Lewis Productions and Louverture Films. Posted with permission of Unobstructed View.