Social movements in deeply divided societies

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Chiara Milan

Examination procedure

<p>Oral presentation</p>

Prerequisites

Optional for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students of the PhD Programme in "Political Science and Sociology"

Optional for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students of the PhD Programme in "Transnational Governance"

Optional for the 4th and 5th year students of the MA Programme in "Political and Social Sciences"

Syllabus

1) Understanding deeply divided societies. An introduction

2) Governing deeply divided societies

3) Others in deeply divided societies

4) Taking power dynamics into account: the settler-colonial approach

5) Space, environmental movements and contested geographies in deeply divided societies

6) Non-ethnic and post-ethnic activism in deeply divided societies

7) Researching deeply divided societies: challenges and positionality