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...
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...
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...
Last week’s well-attended roundtable - Beyond Anti-Austerity? The Possibilities and Limits of Movements Resisting Neoliberalism - provided much interesting food for thought on a number of big questions facing contemporary movements of the left. What follows is a brief...
The Possibilities and Limits of Movements Resisting Neoliberalism 3.30-5.30pm, 3rd December in the Arthur Lewis Boardroom, 2nd floor.All welcome, but please reserve a place via Eventbrite. The wave of protests instigated by the financial crisis in 2011 has already...
Our monthly reading group will run on Wednesday mornings, 10-11am in 3.040 Arthur Lewis Building on the following dates: 15th Oct - Reading Carroll & Ratner's (1994) Between Leninism and Radical Pluralism in Critical Sociology 20(2) 12th Nov - Reading Eric Olin...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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