Policy Advocacy in Global Development
one-way Exclusions
Online activity and private study
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Course Description
This course equips students with strategies, techniques and mindsets that help social movements and justice-oriented organizations contribute to policy advocacy. Through historical and sociological research, students apply core concepts and best practices to develop new understandings about where policy advocacy fits within a broader spectrum of transformative societal change. The course provides practical guidance for designing public campaigns aimed at legal and policy changes toward the goal of justice advocacy in global development.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the main policy actors and institutions responsible for policy advocacy in a Global Development context.
- Discuss strategies, techniques, and mindsets that can help social movements and other justice-oriented organizations contribute to better policy advocacy in Global Development.
- Consider the role of positionality and self-reflexive behaviour in advocacy networks and the role of marginalized communities in advocating change.
- Evaluate the potential limitations of policy advocacy in shaping transformative economic justice in Global Development and assess where policy advocacy fits within a broader spectrum of transformative societal change.
- Situate approaches to contemporary policy advocacy within broader political and historical frameworks.
- Apply inquiry skills in exploring the existing body of historical and sociological research in policy advocacy and use academic and other genres of writing to develop and communicate new ideas to relevant audiences.