Calendar Course Description:
POLS-3950/PCTS-3950 You're Not the Boss of Me: Authority, Legitimacy, and Resistance (3.0 credit hours) This course explores relationships between those in power and those subject to that power. Key texts and case studies will be from different contexts -- historical, cultural, and institutional (governmental, corporate, non-governmental and community-based organizations). These will illustrate how claims to govern are made, reinforced, made to seem acceptable or legitimate, and are challenged. Students will also consider critically their place within various structures of authority in daily life. Readings will include voices rooted in historical and contemporary Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia and from Post-Colonial, Intersectional feminist, Faith-based, and Indigenous traditions. Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of university-level studies or permission of the instructor.
Image (C) Sears 2009. "Hand of Fatima" is a rock formation of sandstone pillars near Hombori Mopti Region, Mali, West Africa. . A protective called the Hamsa is known in Islam as the Hand of Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed (PBUH), and in Judaism. the Hand of Miriam, the sister of Moses.
- Teacher: Jonathan Sears