GBL 1930 PREPARATORY SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
This class seeks to familiarize students with the intersection of Anthropology and Political Philosophy through an engagement with Latin American social movements. During the Fall semester we will pursue the growth of critical thinking and anthropological awareness about the ways our lives are part of larger political events in which institutions, groups, and social forces shape our ideas around freedom, rights, equity, and life chances.
This course has the following objectives:
1) Cover the structure, logistics and practical matters for traveling and studying in Argentina and Uruguay
2) Prepare students for the Winter term class by studying the history of Argentina and Uruguay, with a special emphasis on the Cold War and its aftermath and the following core concepts: human rights, neoliberalism, fascism, the Cold War, and nonviolent social movements.
3) Organizing, and learning to organize, in groups: given that we will be studying social movements as forms of collective action, collective thinking, organizing and learning will be crucial for the overall goals of both classes.
Course Types
Society; Expression
Course Outcomes
- A. Define and apply basic concepts used in political philosophy and social sciences (human rights, colonialism, fascism, neoliberalism, the Cold War, and non-violent social movements)
- B. Understand, in an introductory way, anthropological and philosophical explanations of social inequality in Latin America.
- C. Learn, by practice, skills that are used by social movements to understand, evaluate, critique, and work to overcome injustice.