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...
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...
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...
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