INSTRUCTORS: Patricia Lopez,  Annabel Martin and Chelsey Kivland

 

WEEKLY LEARNING GOALS

• define and understand what constitutes solidarity and how movements are formed across international boundaries;
• engage with multiple ways in which transnational solidarity is articulated and mobilized;
• identify how transnational solidarity complements liberation struggles domestically and internationally.

READINGS & WATCHINGS

Alexander, Jacqui M. and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2010. Cartographies of knowledge and power: Transnational feminism as radical praxis, In Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, edtied by Amanda Lock Swarr and Nicha Nagar, pp. 23-45

Entre les murs. Laurent Cantet (2008) Streamed Jones Media on Canvas

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READINGS

53rd Session of the United Nations Committee Against Torture November 3-28, 2014, Written statement on police shooting (etc.) Submitted by family of Michael Brown et al

OHCHR response: http://www.ohchr.org/FR/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15342&LangID=E 

Gilroy, Paul. 1991. It ain’t where you’re from, its where you’re at: the dialectics of diasporic identification Third Text. 5(13): 3-16.

Rolston, Bill. 2009. “The brothers on the walls”: International solidarity and Irish political murals. Journal of Black Studies, 39 (3): 446-470 .

Žižek, Slavoj, “Divine Violence in Ferguson. ” The European 9 March 2015

Nancy, Jean-Luc. “God, Charlie, No one (Links to an external site.).” The European 2 March 2015

Robcis, Camille. “The Limits of Republicanism.”  Jacobin 26 January 2015.

 FILMS

Be Kind, Rewind. Michel Gondry (2008)