This June, University of Manchester, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference. The conference was first launched in 1995 by Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley when they brought together an international gathering of...
Dr Nara Roberta Silva (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)Webinar: Thursday, 29th May, from 2-3.15pm BSTABSTRACT: This talk explores the landscape of Black political movements in Brazil in dialogue with shifting national and international discourses on...
Global Marxism Book Launch, Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan 6.30-8pm, Wednesday 16th October 2024 Blackwell's Bookshop, 146 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9GP Tickets via Eventbrite About the book: For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx...
With Vincent Bevins, Birgan Gokmenoglu, Kate Alexander, Simin Fadaee, chaired by Luke Yates Cordingly Lecture Theatre, HBS, Monday 17th June, 3.15-5pm Vincent Bevins, journalist and author of The Jakarta Method (an account of US government support for anti-communist...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
3-4.30pm, Weds 14th November 2018. 3.213, University Place, Oxford Road. Speakers: Anne Engelhardt (Kassel) Madelaine Moore (Kassel) Pete Lampard (Univ. Manchester) This session - co-organised with the Global Political Economy Research Cluster - will explore the...
For this semester we’re focusing our readings on the relationship between global sociology and social movements. All welcome; no need to sign up in advance. All sessions in 3.040, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester. 2-4 pm, Wed 17th Oct Burawoy, M....
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