(CRN 51183) 4 credit hours
In this course students explore how a range of local regulatory agencies invoke international institutions in the governance of urban conflicts. Specifically, we will study and map how urban inhabitants mobilize narratives of international human rights to collectively reclaim collective forms of belonging and social citizenship.
WHO
Graduate and Undergraduate students interested in how international institutions (II) and universal narratives of human rights shape and are shaped by localized social justice movements in urban environments.
WHAT
After studying the history and development of II, we explore case studies of urban struggles for dignified housing, affordable health, nutritious food and living wage jobs in Africa, South and North America and Caribbean, West and South Asia.
HOW
Students will engage in weekly lectures and discussions, write weekly journal reflections, self-select a case study to at the end of the semester produce a visually compelling multimedia argument as a manifesto to communicate how II’s can better collaborate with urban movements to create stable governance practices for sustainable and just cities similar to publications at Open Educational Resources.
WHEN
Lectures and discussions Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-1:50PM
For more information, please contact instructor kensalo@illinois.edu
