Lahore University of Management Sciences. POL Civil Society and Social Movements Spring

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1 POL Civil Society and Social Movements Spring Instructor Room No. Office Hours Telephone 2116 Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Perquisites (if any) Yunas Samad 117 Academic Block HSS wing, ground floor TBC yunas.samad@lums.edu.pk POL 100, ANTH 100, SOC 100 COURSE BASICS Credit Hours 4 Lecture(s) 2 Per Week Duration 1:50 hours Recitation/Lab (per None Duration week) Tutorial (per week) None Duration COURSE DESCRIPTION There is considerable debate in contemporary political science and sociology on the role of civil society and social movements and there significance in strengthening the democratization process. Are robust civil societies and resilient social movements necessary for the effective functioning of democracy? Or these are simplistic platitudes about complex social and political phenomena that can be authoritarian in nature as well as democratic? These questions will be critically investigated by addressing major themes in this area from a theoretical and comparative perspective. The programme will examine theoretically the concept of civil society and its relationship to the state and democracy. It will then consider comparatively democratization in non-western societies and how these concepts have been deployed by scholars. The programme then critically theorizes new social movements investigating claims by scholars that it represents a mode of resistance to local and global patterns of domination. The programme then will examine specific social movements such as feminist, environmentalist and peace movements in a comparative perspective. COURSE OBJECTIVES 1. To introduce a significant scholarly approach to understanding non-state activity in the public sphere in the contemporary world in the form of civil society 2. To develop a comparative perspective on social movements emerging in response to the dominant discourses or induced by globalization directly or indirectly 3. To put Pakistan on the map of comparative scholarship in the context of civil society and social movements

2 COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING Class Attendance 10% Group Presentation 1 15% Group Presentation 2 15% Assignment 30% Final Exam 30% COURSE OUTLINE Session 1: Introduction and Organizational Meeting Civil Society: A Theoretical Framework Session 2: Civil Society Chandoke, Civil Society: The Hegelian, Marxian and Gramcian Traditions, State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory, 1995, New Delhi, Nira Wickramsinghe, The Idea of Civil Society in the South: Imaginings, Transplants, Designs, Science and Society, vol. 69, no 3, July 2005, Session 3: Civil Society and State David L. Blaney and Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Civil Society and Democracy in the Third World: Ambiguities and Historical Possibilities, Studies in Comparative International Development, Spring 1993, vol. 28, no 1, 3-24 Terance Chong, Civil Society in Singapore: Popular Discourses and Concepts, Sojourn, vol, 20, no. 2, 2005, Session 4: Civil Society and Social Capital Francis Fukuyama, Social Capital, Civil Society and Development, Third World Quarterly, Vol 22, no. 1, 2001, 7-20 Hans Blomkvist, Does Social Capital Promote Orderly Governance? Conference paper, Copenhagen, August 1996 Irene Tayiss Thomson, The Theory that Won t Die: From Mass Society to the Decline of Social Capital, Sociological Forum, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sept. 2005), Session 5: Democracy and Civil Society Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, 1993, Princeton: Princeton University Press (Ch. 1 & 6) Philippe C. Schmitter, Civil Society East and West in Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives, edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-Han Chu, and Hung-Mao Tien. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, pp Lorenso Fioramonti, Civil Societies and Democratization: Assumptions, Dilemmas and the South African Experience, Theoria, August, 2005 Session 6: (Un-) Social Capital Margaret Levi, Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam s Making Democracy Work Politics and Society 24, no. 1: Portes and Landolt, P. The Downside of Social Capital The American Prospect, Issue 05/01/1996

3 Session 7: Group presentations Session 8: Group presentations Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives Session 9: Civil Society in the West Skocpol, Theda Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Ch. 2 & 5. Session 10: Civil Society in the Middle East Olivier Roy, The Predicament of Civil Society in Central Asia and the Greater Middle East, International Affairs, 81, 5 (2005) Saad Eddin Ibrahim, The Troubled Triangle: Populism, Islam and Civil Society in the Arab World, International Political Science Review/Revue internationale de science politique, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Oct, 1998), Session 11: Civil Society in Pakistan Daanish Mustafa, (Anti-) Social Capital in the Production of an (Un-) Civil Society in Pakistan, Geographical Review, July 2005, Vol. 95, no. 3, Session 12: International Civil Society Adam Lupel, Tasks of a Global Civil Society: Held, Habermas and Democratic Legitimacy beyond the Nation- State, Globalizations, May 2005, vol. 2, no. 1, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Globalisation as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Society, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. ½, The New Sociological Imagination II (Dec, 2005), Social Movements: Theoretical Approaches Session 13: Social Movements: A Conceptual Framework Andre Gunder Frank and Marta Fuentes, Nine Theses on Social Movements, Ghanshyam Shah ed, Social Movements and the State: Readings in Indian Government and Politics 4, Sage Publications, 2002, p Wolfgang Rudig, Anti-Nuclear Movements, Longman, 1990, Ch.2 Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements in Contentious Politics, Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press, 1998: Introduction Session 14: Globalization I Kevin McDonald, From Solidarity to Fluidarity: Social Movements beyond Collective Identity : The Case of Globalization Conflicts, Social Movement Studies, vol 1, no. 2, 2002 Richard Ballard, Adam Habib, Imraan Valodia, Elke Zuern, Globalization, Marginalization and Contemporary Social Movements in South Africa, African Affairs, Vol. 104, No. 417 (Oct. 2005), Session 15: Globalization II Richard Stahler- Sholk, Golbalisation and Social Movement Resistance: The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, New Political Science,.vol. 23, no. 4, 2001

4 Brecher and Costello, Resistance is Global, Global Village or Global Pillage, (Ch. 5) South End Press, Cambridge, Session 16 Group Presentations Session 17 Group Presentations Social Movements: Comparative Perspectives Session 18: Political Dimension of Social Movements Marc Edelman, Social Movements: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 30, (2001), Session 19: Democracy and Social Movements Anthony Oberschall, Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy, Democratization, vol. 7, no. 3, 2000, Session 20: Feminist Movements Sabiha Sumar, Women s Movement in Pakistan: Problems and Perspectives, S. M. Naseem and Khalid Nadvi (eds) The Postcolonial State and Social Transformation in India and Pakistan, 2002, Oxford University Press Scott Coltrane, Michele Adams, The Social Construction of the Divorce Problem : Morality, Child Victims and the Politics of Gender, Family Relations, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Oct. 2003), Session 21: Environmentalist Movements Giorel Curran, Whither Environmentalism? Environmental Politics in the 21 st Century, Social Alternatives, vol 25, no.2, 2006 Steve Yearley and John Forrester, Shell, A Sure Target for Global Environmental Campaigning?, Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai ed, Global Social Movements, The Athlone Press, 2000, p Harriet Bulkeley, Governing Climate Change: The Politics of Risk Society?, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 4 (2001), Session 22: Peace movements Steve Breyman, Were the 1980s Anti-nuclear Weapons Movements New Social Movements? Peace and Change, vol. 22, no 3, July 1997, Yunas Samad, Nuclear Pakistan and the Emergence of a Peace Movement, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 31, no. 2, 1999, Session 23: World Social Forum Zander Navarro and Marcelo Kunrath Silva, Diversity and Social Opposition in the 21 st Century: The Trajectory of the World Social Forum ( ), IDS working paper 275, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, April 2007, p. 7-13, Session 24: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Social Movements Margaret E Keck and Kathyrn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Ithaca: Cornell Universitry Press, 1998: Ch 1 and 6

5 Session 25: Islamic Movements Quintan Wiktorowicz, Introduction: Islamic Activism and Social Movement Theory, Quintan Wiktorowicz ed, Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach, Indiana University Press, 2004, p Diane Singerman, The Networked World of Islamist Social Movements, Quintan Wiktorowicz ed, Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach, Indiana University Press, 2004, ch. 5, p Session 26: Caste-based Movements Gail Omvedt, Ambedkar and After: The Dalit Movement in India, Ghanshyam Shah ed, Social Movements and the State: Readings in Indian Government and Politics 4, Sage Publications, 2002, p Session 27: Urban Social Movements Frans J. Schuurman, Urban Social Movements: Between Regressive Utopia And Socialist Panacea, Frans Schuuman and Ton Van Naerssen ed, Urban Social Movements in the Third World, Routledge, 1989, p Jan Van der Linder, The limits of territorial social movements: the case of housing in Karachi, Frans Schuuman and Ton Van Naerssen ed, Urban Social Movements in the Third World, Routledge, 1989, p Session 28: General Discussion: Lessons of Civil Society and Social Movements for Globalization, Peace and Democracy