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SAME AS G11.3212

Since 2011, cities across the globe have been gripped by numerous protest movements. These uprisings have challenged race and racism, housing justice, democratization, austerity and economic inequality, and immigration. This course puts recent uprisings in their long-term global context, with attention to such themes as the relation between politics and the urban, collective action and coalition building, populism, theories of race and ethnicity, labor and capitalism, imperialist extraction, and urban democracy. It will draw on readings and theories from across the spatial social sciences and humanities, including geography, history, urban planning, social movement studies, and sociology.