Spring 2023

Rights

Listed in: , as EDST-374  |  Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-374  |  Political Science, as POSC-374

Faculty

Kristin Bumiller (Section 01)

Description

(Offered as POSC 374, LJST 374, and EDST 374) This seminar explores the role of rights in addressing inequality, discrimination, and violence. This course will trace the evolution of rights focused legal strategies aimed at addressing injustice coupled with race, gender, disability, and citizenship status. We will evaluate how rights-based activism often creates a gap between expectation and realization. This evaluation will consider when and how rights are most efficacious in producing social change and the possibility of unintended consequences.

This course fulfills a requirement for the Five College Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice (RHRJ) certificate.

Requisite: Requisite: At least one POSC course (200 level or above). Limited to 15 students. Spring semester. Professor Bumiller.

How to handle overenrollment: Priority given to political science majors

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Independent research project, group work, readings, written work, oral presentations.

EDST 374 - LEC

Section 01
Tu 1:00 PM - 3:45 PM WEBS 219

ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
Up Against a Wall: Rape reform and the Failure of Success NYU Press Rose Corrigan This book is only recommended and is not required to be purchased Amherst Books TBD
Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform Oxford University Press Derrick Bell This book is only recommended and is not required to be purchased Amherst Books TBD
The Lives of Animals Princeton University Press J. M. Coetzee This book is only recommended and is not required to be purchased Amherst Books TBD
Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State University of Chicago press Charles R. Epp This book is only recommended and is not required to be purchased Amherst Books TBD
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Crown Matthew Desmond This book is only recommended and is not required to be purchased Amherst Books TBD
Appealing to Justice: Prisoner grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic University of California Press Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness This book is only recommended and is not required to be purchased Amherst Books TBD

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

2023-24: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2023, Fall 2024