The Umbrella Movement: a leaderless movement supported by citizens’ umbrellas

by Humanities Web Team | Oct 13, 2014 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP AFPP 2025 Call for Papers Share your memories Colin Barker Prize AFPP 2024 Programme Events About Us People Contact The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong is a critical milestone of pro-democracy campaigning in this postcolonial society....

Staging protest’s relics: a visit to Disobedient Objects at the V&A

by Humanities Web Team | Sep 16, 2014 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP AFPP 2025 Call for Papers Share your memories Colin Barker Prize AFPP 2024 Programme Events About Us People Contact ‘How might an object be disobedient?’ The question occurred to me throughout the morning before my visit to the...

Gezi Protests Revisted

by Humanities Web Team | Mar 28, 2014 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP AFPP 2025 Call for Papers Share your memories Colin Barker Prize AFPP 2024 Programme Events About Us People Contact Once again thousands of protesters in Turkey took to the streets in mid-March in order to commemorate the youngest...

Mexican Education Reform: The struggle of Mexican teachers.

by Humanities Web Team | Oct 22, 2013 | The Blog

Movements@Manchester The Blog AFPP AFPP 2025 Call for Papers Share your memories Colin Barker Prize AFPP 2024 Programme Events About Us People Contact The Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) governed Mexico for nearly 70 years until 2000. In 2012 PRI returned...