Welcome to the elective course (6ECTS):Resistance, Power & Movements (SDC37806)

• What do ‘activism’ and ‘being an activist’ mean in today’s political context?
• What are the different options that citizen groups and (activist) social movements have to organize around the topics they consider urgent?
• How to organize a sound and constructive movement or action group?
• What can be learned from past social movements and mobilizations?
• How can theories on social movements, activism, and resistance be useful for organizing an impactful action?
• How to (be)come an agent of change?
• How to combine activism and academia and/or be an activist scholar?
  
  

These questions are central to the elective course “Resistance, Power and Movements”, a collaboration between OtherWise and the Sociology of Development and Change group.

This course creates space to explore agency and power by combining theory and practice. Through lectures, interactive workshops, and guidance from WUR lecturers, trainers, and activists, students engage with resistance, protest, and social movements, culminating in the design and realization of a small act of resistance.

The course takes place during two excursion weekends (one with overnight stays), where shared meals, forest walks, and time in relative isolation foster deep learning, exchange, and reflection.