Uber and the corporate capture of e-petitions
Steve Andrews looks at a profit-making petition platform's questionable relationship with the cab company.This blog post was originally published by Red Pepper in October, 2017. Re-posted by kind permission.‘As an open platform, anyone can use our platform no matter...
Co-operation: Old Ideas for New Times?
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...
Hamburg G20 protests and alternative futures
NB This blog post was first published on openDemocracy, as part of the openmovements series. On July 8, 2017, the last day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, an estimated 76,000 people came together under the motto of ‘solidarity without borders instead of G20’ and marked...
Much ado about populism?
A response to Aslanidis (2016) “Populist Social Movements of the Great Recession”, Mobilization 21(3):301-321 (following discussion in the movements@manchester reading group 25th April 2017) Populism is the big news of the 2010s. We’ve had the rise of Trump and Bernie...
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement: Losing Hope
A 500,000 person demonstration, a referendum for universal suffrage, a 79-day Occupy Movement……efforts to fight for democracy in Hong Kong over the past decade or so have not yet paid off. The election for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong held on March 26, 2017...
What might formal modelling tell us about the spread of radical behaviours?
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...
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...
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