Admin Account4 Jan 2021
7-9th June, 2021. Free registration and fully online. AFPP is an international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest and cognate topics. It has drawn participants from over 60 countries, whether based in departments of sociology, politics,...
Yun-Tong Tang13 Jun 2019
In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong went onto the street, standing up against the Chinese National People’s Congress’s decision to bar Hong Kong from having a free and fair universal suffrage. Protesters occupied the roads around the...
Kevin Gillan13 Dec 2018
On 10th December 15 anti-deportation activists were convicted under anti-terror legislation for their peaceful direct action at Stansted airport. Graeme Hayes observed the whole trial as part of a wider research project on disobedience, direct action and trials of...
Yun-Tong Tang27 Apr 2017
A 500,000 person demonstration, a referendum for universal suffrage, a 79-day Occupy Movement……efforts to fight for democracy in Hong Kong over the past decade or so have not yet paid off. The election for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong held on March 26, 2017...
Ulrike Flader8 Sep 2015
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...
