Kursinformation

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the issue of social movements in Latin America. The course is divided into two basic parts - theoretical and empirical ones. Within the first (theoretical) part the basic theoretical approaches to the study of social movements will be introduced (theory of collective action, political process approach, resource-mobilization theory, framing, new social movement paradigm etc.). In this respect the issues concerning mobilization, strategies, cognitive processes, outcomes, institutionalization and decadence of social movements will be discussed. Special attention will be paid to the interactions of movements with the state as a most frequent (although not the only) recipient of demands claimed in the context of social and political struggles. Within the second (empirical) part the empirical cases of social movements in Latin America will be analyzed by means of the theoretical concepts introduced in the first part. The basic objective is to verify the relevance and validity of European and North American theoretical perspectives of social movements in the Latin American context. More detailed information about the course relating to the actual semester see https://kurzy.uhk.cz/.