AANB11076U CANCELLED - Protest, Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution

This course explores a broad range of counter-political action – i.e. activity aimed at mitigating, sabotaging, undermining or overthrowing established forms of political authority. From striking factory workers to national liberation movements, and from peasant rebellions in the global south, to anarchist movements in major metropoleis, it draws on anthropological, sociological and historical approaches to these phenomena to think about the different ways in which counter-power can be constructed, the types of action it includes and the different goals it tends towards. It asks whether these divers types of action are best thought of as situated on a continuous spectrum or whether they constitute irreducibly different political forms.