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SoSe 18: Fighting for Freedom

Annette Lene Karpp, Jenna Krumminga

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In this course, we will together develop a practice of engaged pedagogy that is holistic, experiential, relational and emancipatory. We will explore a mode of learning that empowers us as partners to take responsibility for our own education. ----- Potential class topics might include, but are not limited to: • protest, direct action, and new social movements organized around civil rights, feminism(s), LGBT(QIA) empowerment, sexual liberation, (grassroots) conservatism, animal rights, alterglobalization, ecology, or prison abolitionism ----- • subculture, non-conformity, and lifestyle as activism: e.g. punk, anarchism, consumer choice, techno, veganism ------ • telling (hi)stories as activist practice, e.g. grassroots archiving, scholar activism, public history ----- • commodification, co-optation, and normalization of radical protest practices ----- This list may be subject to change and can be focused or expanded together with students during the course. We ourselves have expertise in the 20th century black freedom movement and punk feminisms, which we’re happy to share. ----- Readings might include, but are not limited to the works of: Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Angela McRobbie, Jack/Judith Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz, Kate Eichhorn, Kim Crenshaw, Gloria Anzaldúa, Shulamith Firestone, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis ----- Students are asked to actively participate in the creation and structure of the course and the related grading system. As such, projects and coursework may be self-directed; there will be room for students to incorporate archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, digital humanities, or other approaches to the study of history and culture. We would like to establish together with you an interactive and communicative learning environment. close