Wednesday 25th October, 4-6pm, University Place 1.219, University of ManchesterPlaces limited. Please reserve at Eventbrite: https://co-operation-old-ideas-new-times.eventbrite.co.ukSpeakers: Professor Peter Gurney (History, University of Essex), and Dr Cilla Ross...
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Report on The Digital Activism Conference
What is ‘digital activism’? Towards the end of a full day conference discussing the social impact of new technologies, one attendee asked the panel of contributing speakers a question concerning the social role of technical expertise. In the face of rapid...
Protest Talks: Participation in the English Defence League
3-5pm, Wednesday 15 February 2017 in Arthur Lewis, Boardroom (2nd floor). All welcome, tea/coffee provided.Prof. Hilary Pilkington, University of Manchester, ‘One big family’: Emotion, affect and the meaning of activism in the English Defence League’Dr Elizabeth...
Pedagogy, Resistance and Freedom: Meet the Author with Richard White
4-6pm Wednesday 30th November, 5.206 University Place, University of Manchester, M13 9PL (Map)This seminar marking the publication of a trilogy of edited collections on anarchism, geography and the spirit of revolt. Editor Richard White will discuss the key themes of...
Digital Activism Workshop
10am - 4pm, Friday 11 November 2016 MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN. (Map)Are new technologies transforming the way we do politics?Which new innovations are soon to reshape our communities?Discuss these issues with prominent academics, campaigners, and...
Protest Talks: Social Movements, Political Parties & the State: Transformations or Continuities?
How Corbyn wrecked the anti-austerity-movement (probably) David Bailey, University of Birmingham, School of Government and Society The world keeps turning: Lessons from emancipatory struggles in the Middle East Cemal Burak Tansel, University of Sheffield, Department...
Protest Talks: Political Technologies PhD Seminar
On 17th March 2016, 3-5pm, Room G.6, Humanities Bridgeford Street, we're delighted to have two fascinating talks on the basis of advanced PhD research. All welcome.Thomas Redshaw: A critical theory of Bitcoin: How politics is embedded in crypto-currenciesIn the...
Reading Group Details for 2015-16
Note: Dates updated below (as of 1st Feb 2016) Here are the reading group dates for this year. All meetings are in the Arthur Lewis Building, Room 3.040. Details of readings will be published on our email list. If you're coming from further afield, just contact...
Notes on The Politics of Everyday Life
This seminar was initially motivated by discussions among members of movements@manchester about the ways in which political activity is integrated into the rhythms and routines of everyday life. Despite the occurrence of a number of relevant concepts within social...
The Everyday Life of Politics/The Politics of Everyday Life
25th January, 10-1pm, Arthur Lewis Board Room, University of Manchester New political subjectivities and movements emerge from the everyday, through experiences of injustice, quotidian modes of resistance, and the development of oppositional identities. Protest also...
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