Brazil’s Long Revolution Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement Anthony Pahnke (Author) Economic crises in the Global North and South are forcing activists to think about alternatives. Neoliberal economic policies and austerity measures have been debated and implemented around the…
Aleksander Aguilar Antunes, Esteban de Gori, Carmen Elena Villacorta (compiladores) Nicaragua en 2018. Notas sobre un libro incómodo Carmen Elena Villacorta Nicaragua es un símbolo. Y no cualquier clase de símbolo: es un símbolo revolucionario. En Nicaragua ocurrió la segunda revolución…
European Consortium for Political Research Violence in the City: Actors, Forms and Dynamics of Urban Violence Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence Abstract This section addresses violence as an urban phenomenon. It looks into violence that occurs in…
The Twenty-Fourth Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference will be held on 15-17th April 2019 at the University of Manchester. From 1995 to 2018 this hugely successful series of international conferences has been organised by Colin Barker and Mike Tylesley…
SEATTLE+20 Movements at the Millennium Call for Papers: Special issue of the journal of Socialism and Democracy Summary. Twenty years after the so-called “Battle in Seattle” and the millennial turn, we seek papers that help explain the 1990s-2010s period of…
Cosmos. The Centre on Social Movement Studies 2019 ECPR-COSMOS Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation The Call for Application is now open for the Third Edition of the Summer School on Methods for the Study…
Paolo Gerbaudo From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France,…
Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms By Emiliano Treré Description This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing…
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades invitan al Seminario. La utopía política: sentido y transformación social Guillem Compte Nunes (coordinador y docente) Programa de Becas Posdoctorales, CEIICH-UNAM Cupo limitado Duración: 40 horas. Entrada libre…
European Consortium for Political Research The Changing Role of Citizen Engagement in Today’s Challenges: Participation, Movements, Protest Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilisation Abstract This Section aims to bring together panels around current issues in the study…
