Strategies of emancipation, forms of protest 3402-00SEFP
During the seminar we will discuss the ideas of emancipation developed by the left since World War II, especially those that are connected to social movements (movements of protest). What is their relation to contemporary efforts aiming at changing the political system?
Through analyzing selected readings we will explore key issues in postwar Marxism, the revolution 1968, emancipatory readings of the New Testament (Martin Luther King, liberation theology). We will then consider various strategies of emancipation developed by Black Americans in the US, postcolonial, feminist and queer theories, finally we will consider the impact of conservative (counter)revolution and the history of alterglobalist movement.
The seminar conludes with a workshop durign which students present their own anthropological, sociological or philosophical research connected to contemporary forms of protest.
Type of course
elective courses
general courses
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
K_W05
K_W12
K_U02
K_U04
K_K01
K_K04
Assessment criteria
Participation in discussions, research project
Bibliography
We will discuss the following texts:
1) Claude Lefort, Proletarian Experience, opubl. w: Socialisme ou Barbarie no. 11 (novembre-décembre 1952); Louis Althusser, W imię Marksa.
2) Herbert Marcuse, Człowiek jednowymiarowy, Raoul Vaneigem, Rewolucja życia codziennego
3) Camilo Torres, Stuła i karabin, Warszawa 1970., Gustavo Gutiérrez, Teologia wyzwolenia. Historia, polityka i zbawienie, Warszawa 1976, Martin Luther King, List z aresztu w Birmingham,
4) Martin Luther King, Miecz, który nie kaleczy, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski, Malcolm X czyli rewolucja na stykach czarnego nacjonalizmu i socjalizmu”, Lewą nogą 12, 2000, s. 119-194.
5) Frantz Fanon, Czarna skóra, białe maski; Wyklęty lud ziemi
Gillo Pontecorvo, „Burn! / Queimada”
6) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Czy inny podporządkowany może przemówić?
7) bell hooks, Teoria feministyczna. Od marginesu do centrum
8) Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexual Desire, Mario Mieli, Elementi di critica omosessuale
9) Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages. Homonationalism in Queer Times
10) Jay Stewart, Academic Theory, w: C. Richards, W.P. Bouman, M.-J. Barker (red.), Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders
11) Susan Faludi, Backlash, Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of cynical reas
12)Immanuel Wallerstein, Globalizacja czy epoka przejściowa, Lewą nogą 13, 2001, s. 136-155, Naomi Klein, No logo, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Imperium
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