Social Movements and Sustainability

<p>Social movements for sustainability are one type of agency striving towards sustainability.</p><p>The course aims to provide conceptual frameworks for studying and evaluating the impact that social movements for sustainability can have on the public agenda and decision-making.<br/><br/>The course is a seminar, although it starts with a few lectures on the history and various theoretical perspectives on social movements, introducing you to the relevant literature. Then, you choose a real-life case of a social movement for a sustainability issue and, adopting a theoretical perspective from the literature, present the analysis of the case in a seminar for class discussion. Depending on the number of enrolled students, seminars will be either by individuals or in small groups. The course ends with an individual term paper on one of the outstanding themes that emerge from class discussions.</p>