What do we know about the police infiltration of protest movements in Britain?

by Humanities Web Team | Mar 24, 2016 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact How much will the public be told about Britain’s undercover police spying on political activists? Lord Justice Pitchford, who chairs the public inquiry into undercover...

Some Trends in Social Movement Scholarship over Four Decades

by Humanities Web Team | Mar 11, 2016 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact Having recently discovered that Scopus offers some useful tools for analysing large sets of search results, I decided to try to use them to get an overview of social...

Protest Talks: Political Technologies PhD Seminar

by Humanities Web Team | Mar 4, 2016 | Events

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact 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...

Voices from the Dark: The Academics’ ‘Peace Petition’ and the Remnants of Opposition in Turkey*

by Humanities Web Team | Feb 23, 2016 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact One month since the éclat about the ‘peace petition’ in Turkey, the overwhelming majority of both state and private universities have started internal inquiries...

Should we be doing more to link the issues in the struggle for reproductive justice?

by Humanities Web Team | Feb 19, 2016 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact The Labour Party last year assented to the Conservatives’ longstanding desire to cap child benefits at the white middle-class standard of two children. In desperation,...