From the belly of the beast, politically and chronologically: Noam Chomsky's lecture from 40 years ago - "Government in the Future" (Seven Stories Press) - probably available online. --CGE
On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> Dear All:
> I am teaching the "Social Movements since the 60s" class this Spring
> - not
> my course or my title but interesting and probably fun, nevertheless
> - and I
> am looking for suggestions w/r/t readings and media.
> Some initial thoughts:
> 1. Clearly there's far far too much that's occurred to even begin to
> claim
> to cover at all comprehensively.
> 2. I categorically do not want this to be a sociology of social
> movements
> class - I want it to be about movements not resource mobilization,
> framing,
> etc. I want to excite and provoke students NOT put them to sleep.
> 3. I clearly have to set a baseline with an overview of Progressive,
> Old
> Left, New Left efforts before, say, 1968.
> 4. I am somewhere between interested in and committed to showing
> that the
> movements "before" the 60s didn't disappear and are in fact
> intertwined with
> the ones "since". Again, not my class, not my title/formulation.
> 5. I have to cover the New Right and, at first blush, want to
> present it as
> a strategic melding of romantic right wing cultural populism and
> hard-nosed
> right wing neoliberal political economy... not that my students will
> know
> what these things are ahead of time.
> 6. I also have to cover ongoing struggles for national liberation,
> indigenous resistance and transnational movements.
> Any and all suggestions - sent to me here or privately - would be
> appreciated and I will certainly share what I get and finally decide
> on.
> I first sent this out to the list associated with Critical
> Sociology, but
> got very little back.
> Yours,
> Alan
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