In settings of repression and coercion, how do people resist in their everyday lives? We look at Bayat’s consideration of what he calls social non-movements, unorganized, spontaneous but powerful ways people change everything. Your Critical Reflection of Antigona’s Court of Women is due today. Come to class prepared to discuss the play in relation to the theme of resistance.

Read:
Asef Bayat. Life as politics: How ordinary people change the Middle East. Stanford University Press, 2013. Introduction, ‘The Art of Presence’ 1-33 and PART 1 – Social Non-Movements 33-152. (Find in UBC Library Online)

Facilitation: (Joao and Andres)

Presentation:
a. Ai Wei Wei (Malte)
b. Chimandande Adichibe (Rebekah)