The engagement of far-right groups in contemporary French social movements
By Matthijs Gardenier and Arthur GrozThe activity of the French far right outside traditional parties seems to depend to a large extent on the current political situation. Several social movement strategies can be identified among French far-right groups. The first is...
What do activists actually need to know? Answers from radical movements across Europe?
By Laurence Cox and the ULEX ProjectAs the Global North (only) starts to move towards the end of the pandemic, global heating is still intensifying; a rising tide of authoritarian governments and far-right groups threatens democracy and movements around the world;...
Public Roundtable and Livestream: Not Set in Stone: Remembering Empire and Contesting Statues
5-7pm, Weds, 9th June 2021, via Zoom and YoutubeOn 7th June 2020, young Bristolians toppled a statue of Edward Colston in the city centre and rolled it into Bristol Harbour. This action marked the culmination of years of contestation, during which Bristolians had...
AFPP Roundtable: The Futures of Social Movement Research
3.30-5.50pm, Tues 8th June 2021, online via ZoomWhat are the challenges facing protest and movement scholarship? How can we study mobilization and contentious politics in the Global South? How will the challenges facing movements today affect the activism that we will...
Farmers’ Protests in India as a Counter Hegemonic Social Force
Note: This piece was first published on Discover Society. Farmers and agricultural workers have been blocking numerous entry points at the borders of New Delhi for more than a month. They travelled from great distances to India’s capital by tractors, buses and on...
Can we compare the occupy action in the US Capitol with those in Hong Kong and Taiwan?
Violent clashes with police, storming the legislature, vandalizing properties in the parliamentary building …… All these happened in the United States, one of the most well-established democratic states in the world. The event in the US Capitol shocked the world and...
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, 2021
7-9th June, 2021. Free registration and fully online.AFPP is an international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest and cognate topics. It has drawn participants from over 60 countries, whether based in departments of sociology, politics,...
The Umbrella Movement 2.0: The 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest in Hong Kong
In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong went onto the street, standing up against the Chinese National People’s Congress’s decision to bar Hong Kong from having a free and fair universal suffrage. Protesters occupied the roads around the...
Livestream: Colin Barker – A celebration of his work.
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...
Harvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India
NB This blog post was first published on openDemocracy, as part of the openMovements series (29 July 2018). The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers self-sufficient. Hence, it offers viable solutions...
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