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Tim Jordan

Tim Jordan is a writer and researcher on social movements and on cybercultures. His main publications are Activism!: Direct action, hacktivism and the future of society (Reaktion, 2002) and Cyberpower: The culture and politics of cyberspace and the Internet (Routledge, 1999). He is currently researching virtual politics, or ‘hacktivism’.

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Popular protest in the 21st century: living in time

The politics of protest, from the Inuit and Aborigines to England’s Countryside Alliance, cannot be understood through old left–right categories. To explain where a movement is heading, we should ask: is its source of energy in the past, present or future?