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GLST 611: Social Movements Report a Broken Link

Week 1

Suggested Reading
Illades, C. (2022). The historiography of social movements. In Conflict, Domination, and Violence. Episodes in Mexican Social History. Berghahn Books. 

Week 2

Required Reading
Godwin, J. (2022). Understanding the civil rights movement. Catalyst: A Journal of Theory & Strategy, 5(4), 70-87.

Week 3

Required Reading
Berlant, L., Cvetkovich, A., Gould, D., Boler, M., & Davis, E. (2022). On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould. Cultural Studies, 36(3), 360–377. 
Suggested Reading
Goodwin, J., & Jasper, J. (2006). Emotions and social movements. In Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions (pp. 611-635). Springer US. 

Week 4

Required Reading
Scott, J. (1989). Everyday forms of resistance. Copenhagen Papers, Vol 4.
Scott, J. (2009). Keeping the state at a distance: The peopling of the hills. In The art of not being governed: an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia (pp. 127-178). Yale University Press. 
Suggested Reading
Marche, G. (2012). Why infrapolitics matters. Revue française d’études américaines, 131(1), 3-18. 
Holtzman, B., & Hughes, C. (2010). Points of resistance and departure: An interview with James C. Scott. Upping the Anti, 11. 

Week 7

Required Reading
Choudry, A., & Thomas, M. (2013). Labour struggles for workplace justice: Migrant and immigrant worker organizing in Canada. Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(2), 212-226.
Cohen, A., & Hjalmarson, E. (2020). Quiet struggles: Migrant farmworkers, informal labor, and everyday resistance in Canada. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 61(2-3), 141-158. 
CES Journal, & Walia, H. (2020). Prefiguring border justice: Interview with Harsha Walia. Critical Ethnic Studies, 6(1). 

Week 8

Required Reading
Fantasia, R., Voss, K., & Eidlin, B. (2013). Labor movement. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Wiley-Blackwell.  
Ross, S., & Savage, L. (2014). Labor confronts austerity: An introduction. Labor Studies Journal, 39(1), 5-8. 
Rose, J. (2018). The prospects for union renewal in Canada. Members-only Library.  

Week 12

Required Reading
Campbell S., et al. (2024). Borders, labor, and beyond: Collective reflections on Harsha Walia's writing, activism, and influence on the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work Review, 45(1), 39-54.