POST 166 PZ -Politics & Arts of Resistance

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This seminar examines practices of resistance by people that the state has deemed “backward.” More specifically, the course compares resistance from below by supposedly backward peoples with forms of resistance by those who are more fully incorporated into state systems. The seminar relies heavily on the work of James Scott to bring this comparison into focus, pairing Scott’s work with that of such other thinkers as W.E.B. Dubois, Pierre Castres, and Anna Tsing. By bringing together a wide range of lived experiences of domination and resistance to it, the course seeks to deepen our understandings of what political resistance is - and of how it has unfolded over time.

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal .