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Pakistan’s post-colonial trajectory has been marked by various contestations and shaped by different constellations and cycles of “contentious politics” (Tilly/Tarrow 2015) through micro-movements, larger social movements as well as groups of activists. More recent examples are, among others, Mama Qadeer and the Baloch Long March, the post-2018 Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, Young / 4th Wave Feminisms, or various Student Activisms since the country’s inception. The research seminar will draw on case studies of youth activisms across democratic and autocratic periods as well as the socio-political spectrum. It will engage with questions of social justice, identity (e.g. language, religion, sexual orientation), nation-building, gender relations, constitutional rights & freedoms, governance issues (e.g. corruption & mismanagement, electoral fraud, political violence / militarisation) as well as look into the nexus of mega development projects and sustainability. It will provide participants with a skill set in terms of theoretical and methodological approaches for own research projects on activisms and social movements in Pakistan and beyond.
Credit point options: 6 LP (without MAP)
- Option 1:
- Preparing a poster and brief reading material for a “Thementisch” (30min.) for an empirical case study, including a brief input presentation of 5min plus moderation
- Annotated bibliography for the selected case study (5 pages, grey literature = max. 10%)
- Summary of one key reading from another session as well as brief presentation (5min.) of a key quote in the respective thematic session
- Option 2:
- Preparing a research design in poster format on a specific youth activism case for the respective thematic session
- Presentation of the poster in the respective session (15min.)
- Annotated bibliography for the selected case study (5 pages, grey literature = max. 10%)
- MAP (+ 4 LP) = written assignment (15-20 pages) or oral exam (30min.)
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