GOV 98fh - Politics at the Grassroots: Rights, Resources, and Democratic Equality in Brazil

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Harvard University

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Description:

Introduces students to researching politics and society in Latin America's largest and most unequal country through an examination of an array of grassroots movements and initiatives organized to redress inequality, including women's, landless, environmental, and religious movements; racial quotas, and participatory budgeting experiments. Seminar focuses on citizenship rights under neoliberalism and how social movements intersect with formal political institutions, political parties, and unions and other organizations to reorder the national political and policy agendas.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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