Protest Talks: Social Movements, Political Parties & the State: Transformations or Continuities?

by Humanities Web Team | Apr 1, 2016 | Events

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact How Corbyn wrecked the anti-austerity-movement (probably) David Bailey, University of Birmingham, School of Government and Society   The world keeps turning: Lessons...

What do we know about the police infiltration of protest movements in Britain?

by Humanities Web Team | Mar 24, 2016 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact How much will the public be told about Britain’s undercover police spying on political activists? Lord Justice Pitchford, who chairs the public inquiry into undercover...

The Problems with Democracy – Continuing the Conversation into a New Year

by Humanities Web Team | Jan 4, 2016 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact 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...

Reflections on ‘The Problem with Democracy’

by Humanities Web Team | Dec 15, 2015 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact Parliamentary Affairs has just published an interesting public lecture by Matthew Flinders, along with responses by Jack Corbett and Ian Marsh. The lecture brings...

Towards an institute for protest and social movement studies

by Humanities Web Team | Dec 4, 2015 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP 2026 Colin Barker Prize About AFPP Events About Us People Contact 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...