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...
The Everyday Life of Politics/The Politics of Everyday Life
25th January, 10-1pm, Arthur Lewis Board Room, University of Manchester New political subjectivities and movements emerge from the everyday, through experiences of injustice, quotidian modes of resistance, and the development of oppositional identities. Protest also...
Reflections on ‘The Problem with Democracy’
Parliamentary Affairs has just published an interesting public lecture by Matthew Flinders, along with responses by Jack Corbett and Ian Marsh. The lecture brings together a whole host of complaints that have been targeted at advanced liberal democracies in trying to...
Towards an institute for protest and social movement studies
In autumn 2015 the German Institute for Protest and Social Movement Studies (ipb) in Berlin organized a networking conference that gathered over 100 social movement researchers for “bridging and bonding” as per the conference title. It was a historical event as it...
No climate protest in Paris?
Mass marches scheduled for 29 November in Paris and disruptive demonstrations (including barricades) on 12 December have been called off by climate justice activists following the terrorist attacks on Friday 13 November. The COP21 climate conference (the 21st...
The Politics and Ethics of Research on Contentious Terrain
On Monday 2nd November 2015, Movements@Manchester held the latest in our series of Protest Talks, this time a half day workshop entitled ‘The Politics and Ethics of Research in Contentious Terrain’. Assisted by a NWDTC Pathway Events Fund, we brought together...
Protest, Movement Networks and Everyday Life: The Back-Story Of Political Action
Reblog: This post was first published by Luke Yates at Discover Society. See the original here. In popular commentary, protests appear unexpected and social movements unpredictable. They are ‘triggered’ by events, ‘explode’ on the streets and ‘escalate’...
Postgraduate Research Event: The Politics and Ethics of Research on Contentious Terrain
10am – 2.30pm, 2nd November in the Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester. [map link] Researchers focused on politically contentious topics encounter ethical issues at every stage of research. This half-day workshop is designed to allow...
The Middle East in Transition: Repression, Discontent and the Role of Football
An interview with James M. Dorsey, Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture in Würzburg/Germany. He is also an award-winning journalist, working...
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