Against Borders for Children: the expanding border and the family
Three times a year, schools in England must complete a census of their students, providing the government with basic information with a view to informing future policy. This year, for the first time, the government is asking schools to provide country of birth 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...
What do we know about the police infiltration of protest movements in Britain?
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 policing, is due to make his ruling on the disclosure of evidence and protection of identity in...
Some Trends in Social Movement Scholarship over Four Decades
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’ analysis,...
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...
Voices from the Dark: The Academics’ ‘Peace Petition’ and the Remnants of Opposition in Turkey*
One month since the éclat about the ‘peace petition’ in Turkey, the overwhelming majority of both state and private universities have started internal inquiries against the signatories; 17 academics have been fired so far, four signatories were forced to resign, while...
Should we be doing more to link the issues in the struggle for reproductive justice?
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, a petition is currently calling on the government to at least abandon plans to force women to prove...
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 Problems with Democracy – Continuing the Conversation into a New Year
N.B. This post is a response to Kevin Gillan's movements@manchester blog post and is being simultaneously published at Oxford University Press. An invitation from the British Library to give the first in a new public lecture series called ‘Enduring Ideas’ was never...
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