The Umbrella Movement 2.0: The 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest in Hong Kong

by Humanities Web Team | Jun 13, 2019 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 AFPP 2026 Call for Papers Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong went onto the street, standing up against the Chinese National People’s...

Reading Group Series: Social movements, states and political parties

by Humanities Web Team | Jan 19, 2018 | Events

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 AFPP 2026 Call for Papers Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact For this semester we’re focusing our readings on the relationships between movements, states and parties. All welcome; no need to sign up in...

Uber and the corporate capture of e-petitions

by Humanities Web Team | Nov 6, 2017 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 AFPP 2026 Call for Papers Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact Steve Andrews looks at a profit-making petition platform’s questionable relationship with the cab company. This blog post was...

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement: Losing Hope

by Humanities Web Team | Apr 27, 2017 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 AFPP 2026 Call for Papers Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact A 500,000 person demonstration, a referendum for universal suffrage, a 79-day Occupy Movement……efforts to fight for democracy in Hong Kong...

What might formal modelling tell us about the spread of radical behaviours?

by Humanities Web Team | Feb 14, 2017 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 AFPP 2026 Call for Papers Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact A brief reflection on: Törnberg, A., & Törnberg, P. (2017). Modelling free social spaces and the diffusion of social mobilization. Social...