493553-FS2025-0-Cultures of Protest: Civil Disobedience in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine





Root number 493553
Semester FS2025
Type of course Seminar
Allocation to subject History
Type of exam not defined
Title Cultures of Protest: Civil Disobedience in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine
Description Demonstrations, strikes and protests are fundamental rights in democracies. In authoritarian regimes such as Belarus or Russia, they are often massively suppressed. The seminar will critically examine the analysis of protest cultures in the history of Eastern Europe, especially in recent decades, and using the examples of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. It asks about forms of protest, the relationship between state and society, reporting, the role of civil society and concrete events around elections. The aim is to critically examine the contemporary history of Eastern Europe and to ask about spaces for political participation and repressive politics. Transnational interdependencies play an important role in this, as does the aspect of art as a form of civil disobedience.


Einführungsliteratur:

Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Hg.): Gewalt statt Macht. Belarus: Repression, Schikane, Terror. Berlin 2020 (Themenheft der Zeitschrift Osteuropa, 10–11/2020
Andreas Rostek, Nina Weller, Thomas Weiler, Tina Wünschmann (Hg.): Belarus! Das weibliche Gesicht der Revolution. edition.fotoTAPETA, 2020
Alice Bota: Die Frauen von Belarus. Von Revolution, Mut und dem Drang nach Freiheit. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2021
Gabowitsch, Mischa: Putin kaputt?
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Lecturers PD Dr. Carmen ScheideTeaching Staff, Faculty of Humanities 
ECTS 7
Recognition as optional course possible No
Grading 1 to 6
 
Dates Wednesday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
 
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