{"id":11356,"date":"2025-06-09T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11356"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:58:17","slug":"democracy-participation-and-social-movements","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/tr\/previous-courses\/summer-2021\/democracy-participation-and-social-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy, Participation and Social Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-93552f31\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Democracy, Participation and Social Movements<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#selin-bengi-gumrukcu-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEL\u0130N BENG\u0130 G\u00dcMR\u00dcK\u00c7\u00dc<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#devrim-kabasakal-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DEVR\u0130M KABASAKAL BADAMCHI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Democracy, Political Participation, and Social Movements is a co-led seminar by Dr. Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi and Dr. Selin Bengi Gumrukcu. The course considers democracy both as a set of normative ideas and an ideal that is intertwined with practice. Therefore, it is divided into two parts: The first five weeks focus on the normative landscape of democracy and the second five weeks focus on reasoning and reflecting on the meaning of political participation and democracy within the contexts of social movements.<br>In the first part of the course, we will try to answer questions such as \u201cWhy is democracy important?\u201d, \u201cWhat are the normative concepts that we associate democracy with?\u201d. Within this scope, we reflect on the relation of democracy with concepts such as equality, justice, neutrality, toleration, multiculturalism, and secularism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part of the course focuses on the relationship between democracy and social movements in general. It starts with analyzing the relationship between democracy and social movements by asking questions such as \u201cAre social movements necessary for democracy?\u201d and \u201cCan democracies survive without social movements?\u201d. In the following weeks, the nature of social movements and protests as well as their relation with the state are analyzed in detail. The last two weeks concentrate on mobilization under authoritarianism with specific reference to the Arab Spring as well as populism and its connection to social movements.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/democracy-participation-and-social-movements-syllabus-S21.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"democracy-participation-and-social-movements-syllabus-S21 g\u00f6m\u00fcs\u00fc.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-06ce3999-afd7-4a66-9734-ba62f3c69da4\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/democracy-participation-and-social-movements-syllabus-S21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">democracy-participation-and-social-movements-syllabus-S21<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">08.04.21 &#8211; 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