Organizing Solidarity: past, present and future (2024/2025: Semester 2 – Spring)

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course students are able to
  1. understand and critically reflect upon the main theories on organized solidarity
  2. apply these to concrete contemporary examples;
  3. chair class sessions, raise interesting questions and draw relevant conclusions from discussions.
Relationship between tests and course goals
  • Assessment is based on a final exam (35%), a mid term exam (35%) and two presentations (each 15%). The final and the midterm exam cover goal 1, while the presentations cover goals 2 and 3.

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Content
Life is as fragile as it is wondrous. Pandemics, illness, underemployment, wars and other disasters may hit anyone. Solidarity exists in many forms. But it has to be organized. This course deals with organized self-help via mutual micro-insurance (where a community and not the state or a commercial party organizes the insurance) and micro-credit. It also includes philanthropy, and internet-based forms of sharing resources, such as homes, couches, knowledge, information and resources such as equipment. Last but not least, we discuss Transnational Social Movement Organisations (TSMOs). TSMOs have brought us very many social rights (environmental, sexual, gender, labour etc.) and have grown much in number, global coverage and interconnectedness. Organizing solidarity is about finding organisational structures that work We survey many forms of organized solidarity, looking at their genesis and development, at theories on their rise or failure, surveying all continents of the globe, and using a theoretically diverse set of studies on solidaristic human behaviour and organisational frameworks.
Format
The class meets twice a week for two hours. Two hours will be devoted to lecturing and explaining the topic by the instructor. The other two hours will be devoted to student-chaired discussions. In preparation of the lecture, the students carefully read the articles in advance and reflect upon them

Werkvormen

UCU course

Toetsing

Presentation 1

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

Presentation 2

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

Midterm exam

Verplicht | Weging 35% | ECTS 2,63

Final exam

Verplicht | Weging 35% | ECTS 2,63

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • DIVERSE
    Articles as referred to in the weekly roster

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

prof. dr. M.H.D. van Leeuwen M.H.D.vanLeeuwen@uu.nl

Docenten

prof. dr. M.H.D. van Leeuwen M.H.D.vanLeeuwen@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

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