Nasir Almasri

This course explores politics at the level of everyday people, those who have no formal access to mechanisms of institutional power. How are social movements and digital activists transforming politics? How have ordinary people exercised power? How do digital technologies alter the strategies that people use to effect political change? What strategies remain the same, even in our digital age?  What practices and problems accompany digital politics? Drawing on classic works of political anthropology, as well as more recent examples of transnational and digital activism, this course seeks to understand the deployment of power by everyday people, particularly focusing on Global South contexts.