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...
This post is about Dominic Sandbrook, the historian who last year presented the BBC series The 70s[1. BBC (2013); http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ghscj] and writes a column for the Daily Mail[2. Mail...
An Email-Conversation with Professor Mervat F. Hatem from the Department of Political Science, Howard University on the Role of Women in the Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt. UF: In your most recent article in current issue of the Middle East Report 268 you...
Environmental and social justice campaigners have a reputation for being po faced moralists who lecture people about the woes of the world, and it's partly deserved, and partly because, well, how do you approach these themes without defaulting into that tone? Well,...
The Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) governed Mexico for nearly 70 years until 2000. In 2012 PRI returned to power under the leadership of President Enrique Peña Nieto. Shortly after taking the office, Peña presented a series of structural reforms amongst...
Our intention with movements@manchester is to improve understanding of social movements and movement-like phenomena. We believe that social movement theories have potentially broader application than is generally seen in current research and also that these theories...
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