Seminar: Justice and Protest SoSe 2025

Prof. Dr. Niktia Dhawan

Seminar Justice and Protest

Time:  Tuesday (DS 4) 13:00-14:30 Uhr

POL-WO-Forschung

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In recent years, an increasing number of global citizens’ movements have taken “justice” as their explicit goal. This has been accompanied by a proliferation of protest actions that seek to reconfigure the way power, agency and resistance are being perceived and per-formed. Protest movements in different parts of the world evoke promises of radical political change through shaming powerful states and international institutions into good behavior. However, spaces of resistance themselves produce exclusions thereby complicating any easy understanding of power, agency and vulnerability. In this class we will simultaneously engage with scholarship on civil society and public spheres as well as focus on examples of new social movements globally. The effort will be to understand the link between democratization, social movement activism and international civil society action. 

Literatur zur Vorbereitung:

Alvarez, Sonja/Faria, Lalu/Nobre, Miriam 2004: „Another (Also Feminist) World is Pos-sible: Constructing Transnational Spaces and Global Alternatives from the Movements”, In: Sen, Jai/Anand, Anita/Escobar, Arturo/Waterman, Peter (Hg.): World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, New Delhi: Black rose Books: S. 199–206.

Butler, Judith (2015): Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. London/Cam-bridge: Harvard University Press.

Fraser, Nancy (2007): „Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. On the Legitimacy and Effi-cacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World”. In: Theory, Culture & Society 24 (4), S. 7-30.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (2009): “They the People. Problems of alter-globalization.” Radical Philosophy 157: S. 32-37.