Kevin Gillan11 Apr 2019
4-6pm, Monday April 15th 2019 The Harwood Room, Barnes Wallis Building Livestream via YouTube Update: There is now a better quality video of the full session available via YouTube A key event in the programme for Alternative Futures and Popular Protest is a...
Kevin Gillan13 Dec 2018
On 10th December 15 anti-deportation activists were convicted under anti-terror legislation for their peaceful direct action at Stansted airport. Graeme Hayes observed the whole trial as part of a wider research project on disobedience, direct action and trials of...
Kevin Gillan14 Feb 2017
A brief reflection on: Törnberg, A., & Törnberg, P. (2017). Modelling free social spaces and the diffusion of social mobilization. Social Movement Studies, 16(2), 182–202. Social Movement Studies have recently published an interesting article making use of formal...
Kevin Gillan11 Mar 2016
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 movement scholarship over the last four decades. This is something of a ‘quick and dirty’...
Kevin Gillan1 Feb 2016
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...
Kevin Gillan26 Jan 2016
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...
