PERSONAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

  • Week 5 onwards

  • How does assigned text relate to lecture of that week

  • Grasp general idea of historical cases and contexts rather than specific quotes and views of authors, see if I can write 5 sentences about each case or context

    Essay:

  • No conclusion/intro

  • Optional thesis statement

  • 2-3 pages (single spaced)

  • Reference at least 2-3 authors

  • Include illustrative examples and tie your own analysis to historical cases where relevant

Week 5 (3 & 7 February): Gender and Social Movements

  • Viterna, Jocelyn S. 2006. “Pushed, Pulled, and Persuaded: Explaining Women’s

Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerilla Army” American Journal of Sociology

Vol.112, No.1.

Week 8: (24 & 28 February) Religion and Politics

  • Trager, Eric. 2017. Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Ch.1 “Rapid Rise, Faster Fall,” especially pp.1-8.

Week 10 (10 & 14 March): Fragile vs. Strong States

  • Duncan, Gustavo. 2014. “Drug Trafficking and Political Power: Oligopolies of Coercion in Colombia and Mexico” Latin American Perspectives Vol.41, No.2 (March), pp.18-42.

Week 11 (17 & 21 March): Development and Human Rights

  • Sen, Amartya. 1999. "Democracy as a Universal Value" Journal of Democracy Vol. 10 No. 3 pp.3-17

Week 12 (24 & 28 March): Political Violence South Africa I

  • Orkin, Mark. 1992. “’Democracy Knows No Colour’: Rationales for Guerrilla

Involvement Among Black South Africans” Journal of Southern African Studies 18 (3)

pp.643-669

  • Berkeley, Bill. 2001. The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa (New York, NY: Basic Books) Ch.5, "The Collaborator" pp.143-1937

Week 13 (31 March & 4 April): Political Violence South Africa II

  • Arjona, Ana, and Stathis Kalyvas. 2012. "Recruitment into Armed Groups in

Colombia: A Survey of Demobilized Fighters," in Yvan Guichaoua, ed., Understanding

Collective Political Violence (New York: Palgrave MacMillan), pp.143-171

  • Moser, Caroline. 2004. “Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory

Roadmap” Environment and Urbanization 16 (October), pp.3-16

11 April: Development and Environment:

  • McCoy, Terrence, and Raphael Alves. 2022. “Death in the Forest: The Amazon

Undone” Washington Post (17 March)

  • Lakhani, Nina. 2020. “Who killed Berta Cáceres? Behind the brutal murder of an

environment crusader” The Guardian (2 June