Dr Sara Camacho Felix CBG 12.04

This course is available on the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science. This course is not available as an outside option.

This course is available only to Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity MSc students. This is a compulsory course for these students and non-AFSEE Fellows will not be permitted to take this course.

The course responds to the needs of the AFSEE Fellows to develop critical skills and understandings of leadership within various contexts and themes indexed to transforming global inequality.  This approach marries a structural analysis of global inequality and its manifestations with critical analysis, reflexive thinking, as well as practical skills that will provide students with the tools to bring systemic change into being. Crucially, the course is heavily rooted in theories of practice, in which Fellows are introduced to and demonstrate a sound knowledge and critical appreciation of their field and its associated practice and research techniques, and show that these techniques can be successfully applied in revealing or challenging injustice and inequality. The course will consist of lectures, presentations, seminars and workshops. Lectures will introduce Fellows to key concepts, approaches and techniques for understanding and challenging inequality. Workshops and seminars will help Fellows clarify and deepen their understanding of points and issues raised in the lectures, through practical work carried out individually and in groups.

6 hours of lectures and 10 hours of workshops in both teaching weeks.

Week 1 – Reading Week of Winter Term - Leadership and Social Change

Week 2 – First Week after Spring Term - Leadership and Social Change

Teaching arrangements may be adjusted if online teaching is required at any point.

There will be one piece of formative coursework, a 750 word essay outline for their policy report in response to a set question. The formative outline will be due in week 10 of Winter Term. Fellows will receive written feedback on the essay outline and will have the opportunity to discuss the written feedback with the Course Convenor. This formative coursework is directly related to the summative essay which will be due in Spring Term.

Della Porta, D. (2015). Social Movements in Times of Austerity. Wiley

Gaventa, J. (2006) Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis. IDS Bulletin 37 (6). November 2006.

Green, D. (2016) How Change Happens. Oxford University Press. Also accessible as a free download at < http://how-change-happens.com/download/>

Goss, S. (2015) Systems Leadership: A View from the Bridge. OPM.

Glasius, M. and Ishkanian, A. (2015) Surreptitious symbiosis: engagement between activists and NGOs. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26 (6). pp. 2620-2644.

Hickel, J. (2017) The Divide: A Brief Guild to Global Inequality and its Solutions. William Heinemann. London.

Ishkanian, A. and Peña Saavedra, A. (2019) The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: the case of Sisters Uncut. Sociological Review, 67 (5). 985 - 1001.

Phillips, B. (2020) How to Fight Inequality and Why That Fight Needs You. Polity.

Raworth, K (2018) Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. London. Random House Business.

Seckinelgin, H. (2017) The politics of global AIDS: institutionalization of solidarity, exclusion of context. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.

Weldon, L. S. (2011). When protest makes policy: how social movements represent disadvantaged groups. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Presentation (30%) in the post-spring term.
Policy report (70%) in the ST Week 1.

70% Policy Report 2500 words in ST.

30% Presentation in the week after ST ends.

An electronic copy of the assessed policy report, to be uploaded to Moodle, no later than 4.00pm on Tuesday in week 1 of Spring Term.