SPAN 4520 - The State and Insurrection

(CA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with SPAN 6520. Conducted in Spanish.

B. Bosteels.

The first decade of the new millennium has been marked by a global tide of uprisings, riots, occupations, and other forms of insurrection that no longer seek to take control of the state but attempt to change the world without taking power. Through political theory, history, literature and art, we will take a closer look at this new insurrectionary moment that sometimes runs parallel to and other times against the “pink tide” of leftist, centrist, or populist governments in Latin America.