GERM 46.04 Mobs, Crowds, and the People: Activism in Populist Times

It is no accident that we find ourselves today in the midst of populist unrest. Our course Mobs, Crowds, and the People: Activism in Populist Times explores the longstanding history of popular unrest and mobilization, fear of the people in literature, philosophy, theology and film from across three continents. Populism is central to current debates about politics and the future of democracy, from radical right organizations in Europe to left-wing parties and presidents in Southern Europe and Latin America to the Occupy Wall Street Movement, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and the “Capitol Riot” in the United States. But populism is also one of the most contested concepts in the humanities and political theory. Is populism an ideology or a revolutionary strategy? A style of politics? And, crucially, who are “the people” in populism?

Instructor

Gomez and Mladek

Cross Listed Courses

COLT 63.03 HUM 03.07

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:TMV; WCult:W

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