Emotional Contagion, Big Data and Research Ethics
The results of a recent psychology experiment on ‘emotional contagion’ last week were heavily reported in the mainstream media and, rather unusually, the discussion was focused on methodology and research ethics. The experiment involved manipulation of the ‘News Feed’...
Last reading group of 2013-14
Our last reading group of this academic year will be 10am Weds 9th July in Café Muse. We'll be readingSimonds, W. (2013). Presidential Address: The Art of Activism. Social Problems, 60(1), 1–26.The piece discusses the relationship between sociology, activism and art...
New reading group dates
Fancy discussing social movement readings over breakfast? Our next two meetings will be:10am Weds 11th June, in Cafe Muse on Oxford Road10am Weds 9th July, in Cafe Muse on Oxford RoadReadings tbc. Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find...
Protest Talks 2: Informal, Organised, Rebellious: Dimensions of Women’s Activism in the Middle East
Time: 5-7.30pm, Tuesday 6th May Place: Samuel Alexander Building, Lecture Theatre A112 All welcome. Please register via eventbrite. The so-called Arab Spring and its continuing effects have propelled the dynamics of protest, uprisings and revolution throughout the...
Gezi Protests Revisted
Once again thousands of protesters in Turkey took to the streets in mid-March in order to commemorate the youngest and most recent victim of police violence during the Gezi Protests of last year. The 14 year-old Berkin Elvan was hit by a tear gas canister and had been...
Pussy Riot split confusion: cultural action always has blurred lines
Reblog: this post was first published by Susan O'Shea at the Feminist Times. See the original here. Pussy Riot sang in their Punk Prayer, two years ago today: “become a feminist, become a feminist” – a rallying call to action. From Sochi to Kiev, Caracas to our own...
One-Dimensional Man turns 50
Herbert Marcuse’s (1898-1979) best-known book One-Dimensional Man was first published 50 years ago in 1964 by Beacon Press. If we are to follow Douglas Kellner’s assertion in his Introduction to the Second Edition from 1991, it was ‘one of the most important books of...
Reading group meetings, spring 2014
We've got three new reading group meetings coming up. Thur 27th Feb, 3pm. University Place, 6.207. Discussion of Fligstein, N., & McAdam, D. (2011). Toward a general theory of strategic action fields. Sociological Theory, 29(1), 1–26. Wed 19th Mar, 3pm....
New article on Prefigurative Politics in Social Movement Studies
Power relations within social movements are an enormous source of dispute and argument in contemporary activism, and so are questions about the strategic significance of alternative practical projects such as occupations, alternative media, communes, ‘zines, radical...
Reading Group: 22nd Jan with Graeme Hayes
Graeme Hayes will be visiting our next reading group meeting where we'll be discussing whether there is a distinct British tradition of social movement scholarship, as argued in:Brian Doherty, Graeme Hayes & Christopher Roots (forthcoming) 'Britain: No longer the...
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