TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Assistant Professor Erdem Damar
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) identify, properly use and analytically implement fundamental concepts and logics of (contemporary) social movement theories in analysing particular social movement cases; 2) analytically and critically assess the history of social movement theories as well as underlying issues leading to diversification and development of various social movement theories; 3) gain the critical skill in analysing recent issues, challenges and debates on social movements as well as their conditions of emergence; 4) analytically distinguish social movements from other non-state actors such as pressure groups and civil society organizations; 5) gain to ability to move back-and-forth between social movement theories and specific (contextual and empirical) social movement cases in order to develop analytical, critical and to some extent generalizable arguments about these social movement cases; and 6) have an ability and knowledge on characterising different themes (gender, religion, environment, energy, peace, human rights, etc.) and axes (local, national, regional, global, confrontational, assimilative, etc.) regarding the facilitation and operation of social movements in different parts of the world.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No recommended optional programme components.
COURSE DEFINITION	This course provides a historical account of the birth, spread and the evolution of social movements across time and space. The course discusses why and how social movements are a type of contentious politics to decrease categorical social inequalities and hierarchies. While not all social movement have struggled for democracy, many progressive social movements have been important actors in the development of conceptions and practices of democracy. Questions addressed in this course include what are the implications of neoliberal globalization for social movements, and what are the prospects for social movements?
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Course introduction: What are social movements, and why should we care about them? 2nd Week Conceptualizing Social Movements 3rd Week Conceptualizing Social Transformation 4th Week Modernity and Social Change: Social Movements and National Movements 5th Week Social Movements, Democracy and Anti-Democratic Reaction 6th Week Justice, social protest, and the law 7th Week Class Conflict and Social Change 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Social Class and Social Movements 10th Week Gender and Social Movements in the 1960s 11th Week Social Movements in Neoliberal Globalization Period 12th Week Nationalism and Social Movements 13th Week The backlash against democracy and the rise of the far-right 14th Week Conservative Populism and De-democratization
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Required Readings Alessandro Bonanno, "The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Populist Reaction, and the Rise of Authoritarian Capitalism", In Berch Berberoglu Ed., The Global Rise of Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization and the Nationalist Response, Routledge, 2021, p. 15-50. Berberoglu B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Barry Eidlin and Jasmine Kerrissey, "Social Class and Social Movements", In David A. Snow et al. Eds., The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements, 2019, p. 517-536. Corey Robin, The reactionary mind: conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 3-37. Donatella della Porta, "Late Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: An Introduction", In Donatella Della Porta eds., Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p. 1-38. Donatella Della Porta and Mario Diani Eds., The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, Oxford University Press, 2015. Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein "Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements", Social Research, Vol. 53, No.1, 1986, pp. 185-206. King, Jr., Martin Luther. 1963. Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Antisystemic Movements: History and Dilemmas", Samir Amin et al., Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World-System, Monthly Review Press, 1990, pp. 13-53. Immanuel Wallerstein, "New Revolts Against the System", NLR 18, November-December 2002, pp. 29-39. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Antisystemic Movements, Yesterday and Today", Jackie Smith et al., Eds., Social movements and world-system transformation, Routledge, 2017, pp. 5-14. Janet M. Conway, "Modernity and the Study of Social Movements", Jackie Smith et al., Eds., Social movements and world-system transformation, Routledge, 2017, pp. 17-34. Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, "Editor?s Introduction", In Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper Eds., The Social Movements Reader, Blackwell Publishing, 2015, pp. 3-8. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, part 1 and part 2 Ray Kiely, "Assessing Conservative Populism: A New Double Movement or Neoliberal Populism?", Development and Change, Vol 51 No 2, 2020, pp. 398-417. Ray Kiely, "From Authoritarian Liberalism to Economic Technocracy: Neoliberalism, Politics and 'De-democratization'", Critical Sociology, 2016, pp. 1-21. Optional Readings Çetinkaya, Y. D. "Tarih ve Kuram Arasında Toplumsal Hareketler?" Doğan Çetinkaya Der., içinde Toplumsal Hareketler: Tarih, Teori ve Deneyim, İletişim Yayınları, 2008, s. 15-61. Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, University of California Press, 2017. Giovanni Arrighi, "The Making and Remaking of the World Labor Movement", Samir Amin et al., Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World-System, Monthly Review Press, 1990, p. 54-95. Heather McKee Hurwitz and Alison Dahl Crossley, "Gender and Social Movements", In David A. Snow et al. Eds.,The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements, 2019 Joseph V. Femia, "The Perversity Thesis", Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought since the French Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 16-66. Richard Saull, "Capitalism, crisis and the far-right in the neoliberal era", Journal of International Relations and Development, 18, 2015, pp. 25?51.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 1 10 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 1,5 1,5 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 2 28 Preparation for Final exam 1 30 30 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 2 20 40 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 1,5 1,5 Homework 1 7 7 Total Workload 150 Total Workload / 30 5 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No