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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
Reblog: This post was first published by Kevin Gillan at Discover Society. See the original here. Among scholars of social movements there is presently a lively debate about the ethics of social research. While the topic of research ethics is rarely one that excites...
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...
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