Editorial Open issue Laurence Cox, Sutapa Chattopadhyay Like many of the movement projects we work with around the world, Interface is living in interesting times. The rise of new authoritarianisms, far-right movements and state and freelance repression of movement spaces and radical…
Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy Communicating the Future (Polity) provides a simple model of how ideas flow in society, along with an application of the model to develop more spreadable ideas at the intersection of environment, economy…
Series editors: Lara Monticelli, Copenhagen Business School, and Torsten Geelan, University of Copenhagen The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing global economic recession of unprecedented depth is a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to challenge capitalism and transition to a more equitable, democratic, solidaristic…
CALL FOR PAPERS, PACO 14(3 bis): 2021 Call for Papers for a Special Issue on[1]: When, where and which kind of collective action matters? Guest editors Lorenzo Bosi (Scuola Normale Superiore) Katrin Uba (Uppsala University) This special issue will seek…
ety publishes current work on the social, economic, and cultural impact of information and communication technologies. Black Lives Matter Online Virtual Issue Like millions of other academics and citizens worldwide we have been shocked and appalled by the brutal killing…
How Social Movements Can Save Democracy Democratic Innovations from Below Donatella della Porta The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for…
Contention The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest Editorial Giovanni A. Travaglino and Benjamin Abrams Contention has now reached its eighth volume and fifteenth issue, and we have been delighted to see the journal move from attainment to attainment over the…
Social movements in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis: sharing stories of struggles Friday May 8th … on the 75th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe … We’re tired of hearing stories about the virus and the crisis that…
University of Copenhagen Department of Sociology Copenhagen Centre on Political Mobilisation and Social Movement Studies (CoMMonS) Symposium on ZOOM Social Movements and Political Mobilisation in Times of Global Pandemic April 27th *10.00-12.00 Copenhagen and Paris *11-13.00 Beer Sheva Panel vulnerable…
Global Struggles and Social Change From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century Christopher Chase-Dunn and Paul Almeida Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the director of the…
