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Using narratives for strategic adaptation: lessons learned from COP21

4 February 2020

Written by: Mattias Wahlström All articles by Mattias Wahlström

Written by: Joost de Moor All articles by Joost de Moor

For climate activists in the run-up to COP26, taking strategic decisions based on stories about past mobilizations...
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Lebanon's "October revolution" : An end to the civil war?

13 November 2019

Written by: Alexandra Kassir All articles by Alexandra Kassir

Since October 17, the walls of fear began to crumble under the weight of the ever-growing economic crisis.
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Bolivia on the brink of an abyss

12 November 2019

Written by: Hugo José Suárez All articles by Hugo José Suárez

After the night of 20 October, Bolivia has lived through a complex and violent process and we are ignoring the...
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Virus: all that is solid melts in the air

Written by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos All articles by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Published in: openMovements
Democratic horizons in times of corona governance

Written by: Teivo Teivainen All articles by: Teivo Teivainen

Written by: Pauli Huotari All articles by: Pauli Huotari
Published in: democraciaAbierta
The 'de-aging' of the world

Written by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos All articles by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Toward new universal declaration of human rights (I)

Written by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos All articles by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Extractivism and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Written by: María Villarreal All articles by: María Villarreal

Written by: Enara Echart Muñoz All articles by: Enara Echart Muñoz
Published in: democraciaAbierta
The Chilean October: neoliberalism was born and will die in Chile?

Written by: Alexis Cortés All articles by: Alexis Cortés
Published in: openMovements
Towards a more convivial left?

Written by: Sari Hanafi All articles by: Sari Hanafi
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Why it keeps kicking off everywhere: ‘Order’ versus social justice from the Balkans, to the Middle East, to the Andes

Written by: Igor Štiks All articles by: Igor Štiks
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Lebanon's "October revolution" : An end to the civil war?

Written by: Alexandra Kassir All articles by: Alexandra Kassir
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Bolivia on the brink of an abyss

Written by: Hugo José Suárez All articles by: Hugo José Suárez
Published in: Home
Portugal as a strategic target of the far right

Written by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos All articles by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Zapatistas: the fight goes on

Written by: Ké Huelga All articles by: Ké Huelga
Published in: democraciaAbierta
The age of pardon or the age of aggression?

Written by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos All articles by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Published in: democraciaAbierta
New solidarity for the Mapuche indigenous movement in today’s Chile

Written by: Miguel Leone All articles by: Miguel Leone

Written by: Camila Ponce All articles by: Camila Ponce
Published in: Home
Small-town feminist activism in Poland

Written by: Magdalena Muszel All articles by: Magdalena Muszel

Written by: Grzegorz Piotrowski All articles by: Grzegorz Piotrowski
Published in: democraciaAbierta
The politics of protest in Argentina

Written by: Julián Rebón All articles by: Julián Rebón
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Argentina, the G20, and the mobilisations against it

Written by: Marta Musić All articles by: Marta Musić
Published in: Home
The ‘new’ climate politics of Extinction Rebellion?

Written by: Brian Doherty All articles by: Brian Doherty

Written by: Joost de Moor All articles by: Joost de Moor

Written by: Graeme Hayes All articles by: Graeme Hayes
Published in: Home
Authoritarian populism and popular struggles in Modi’s India

Written by: Alf Gunvald Nilsen All articles by: Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Published in: Home
Vietnam: how to circumvent state repression

Written by: Anh-Susann Pham Thi All articles by: Anh-Susann Pham Thi
Published in: Home
Rethinking resistance in post-uprisings Egypt

Written by: Nadim Mirshak All articles by: Nadim Mirshak
Published in: Home
Authoritarian Middle East regimes don't like academics – ask Matthew Hedges

Written by: Jannis Grimm All articles by: Jannis Grimm
Published in: Home
Spies, kettling and repression - how British policing became militarised

Written by: Sarah Pickard All articles by: Sarah Pickard
Published in: Home
The booming industry of Chinese state internet control

Written by: Rui Hou All articles by: Rui Hou
Published in: Home
The new repertoire of repression and how movements resist. Introduction.

Written by: Simin Fadaee All articles by: Simin Fadaee

Written by: Geoffrey Pleyers All articles by: Geoffrey Pleyers
Published in: Home
Civil rights and voter suppression in the US

Written by: Meghan Tinsley All articles by: Meghan Tinsley
Published in: Home
15M's social and political effects in Spain

Written by: Antonio Álvarez-Benavides All articles by: Antonio Álvarez-Benavides
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Brazil, hijacked by post-truth

Written by: Ana Cristina Suzina All articles by: Ana Cristina Suzina
Published in: Home
Why some cities are ‘rebel cities’ – interview with Yaz Brien about Bristol’s resistance scene

Written by: Yaz Brien All articles by: Yaz Brien

Written by: Joost de Moor All articles by: Joost de Moor
Published in: Home
One building, several facades: political showcasing in contemporary Turkey

Written by: M.Ragıp Zık All articles by: M.Ragıp Zık
Published in: oDR
Why Russia needs a grassroots campaign against political repression

Written by: Ivan Pivovarov All articles by: Ivan Pivovarov

Written by: Samson Larin All articles by: Samson Larin

Written by: Hera Critus All articles by: Hera Critus
Published in: democraciaAbierta
“The revolution will be feminist, or it will be nothing". Dirty laundry to the streets of Chile

Written by: Camila Ponce All articles by: Camila Ponce
Published in: Home
Harvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India

Written by: Simin Fadaee All articles by: Simin Fadaee
Published in: Home
How US evangelical organizations deploy ‘human rights’ and ‘development’

Written by: Kevin Crow All articles by: Kevin Crow
Published in: Home
The jihadogenous urban structure

Written by: Farhad Khosrokhavar All articles by: Farhad Khosrokhavar
Published in: oDR
A revolution of values: freedom, responsibility and courage in Armenia's Velvet Revolution

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: Transformation
The revenge against the commons

Written by: Zad Forever All articles by: Zad Forever
Published in: Home
Whose human rights? The marginalisation of dissent in France and spreading

Written by: Marco Perolini All articles by: Marco Perolini
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Death of the “new republic” in Brazil

Written by: Frédéric Vandenberghe All articles by: Frédéric Vandenberghe
Published in: democraciaAbierta
A revolution with the name of a woman

Written by: Camila Ponce All articles by: Camila Ponce
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Feminist legal mobilization for abortion rights in Latin America

Written by: Alba Rubial All articles by: Alba Rubial
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Marielle Franco and Brazil's future: hope or barbarity

Written by: Breno Bringel All articles by: Breno Bringel
Published in: Home
Deportation and direct action in Britain: the ‘terrorist trial’ of the Stansted 15

Written by: Steven Cammiss All articles by: Steven Cammiss

Written by: Brian Doherty All articles by: Brian Doherty

Written by: Graeme Hayes All articles by: Graeme Hayes
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Brexit: whose will, which public?

Written by: Gabriel Popham All articles by: Gabriel Popham
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Brexit Britain: are we all haunted by collapse?

Written by: Gabriel Popham All articles by: Gabriel Popham
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Clashing scales in Brexit Britain, or why we just can’t get along

Written by: Gabriel Popham All articles by: Gabriel Popham
Published in: Home
Իշխանությանը ճշմարտությունն ասելը վտանգավոր է․ Հայաստանի քաղաքական ակտիվիստների նկատմամբ սանձազերծված բռնությունը

Written by: Արմինե Իշխանյան All articles by: Արմինե Իշխանյան
Published in: Home
Speaking truth to power is dangerous: the violence perpetrated against Armenian political activists

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Mexico: the volcano of resistance

Written by: Manuel Garza Zepeda All articles by: Manuel Garza Zepeda

Written by: Geoffrey Pleyers All articles by: Geoffrey Pleyers
Published in: Home
Iran: the revolt of the deprived

Written by: Farhad Khosrokhavar All articles by: Farhad Khosrokhavar
Published in: Home
The new Chilean political (contra) cycle

Written by: Alexis Cortés All articles by: Alexis Cortés
Published in: Home
The lobbies of glyphosate: a danger to the health of Europeans and of their democracy

Written by: Geoffrey Pleyers All articles by: Geoffrey Pleyers
Published in: Home
Reinventing the World Social Forum: how powerful an idea can be

Written by: Francine Mestrum All articles by: Francine Mestrum
Published in: Home
(Re)imagining the future in Bolivia

Written by: Anna Krausova All articles by: Anna Krausova
Published in: 50.50
Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow: “it's never easy to fight for what we believe in”

Written by: Claire Provost All articles by: Claire Provost
Published in: Home
Heated debates around domestic violence in Armenia

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
"The streets will always be ours" - Catalonia, a referendum from below

Written by: Francis O'Connor All articles by: Francis O'Connor

Written by: Donatella della Porta All articles by: Donatella della Porta

Written by: Anna Subirats Ribas All articles by: Anna Subirats Ribas

Written by: Martin Portos All articles by: Martin Portos
Published in: Home
“It takes more to tango” – cross-movement alliances of youth-led movements in West Africa

Written by: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop All articles by: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop
Published in: Home
Hamburg G20 protests and alternative futures

Written by: Simin Fadaee All articles by: Simin Fadaee
Published in: Home
In Indonesia, the peasant struggle of Kendeng

Written by: Alice Sakasi All articles by: Alice Sakasi
Published in: Home
Making the future possible again

Written by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos All articles by: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Published in: Home
Fostering alliances across progressive movements

Written by: Sabrina Zajak All articles by: Sabrina Zajak
Published in: Home
From civil rights to the occupy movement: talking across issues in independent media

Written by: Amoshaun Toft All articles by: Amoshaun Toft
Published in: oDR
Is the anti-corruption agenda all that it’s cracked up to be?

Written by: Editors of OpenDemocracy Russia All articles by: Editors of OpenDemocracy Russia
Published in: oDR
Fighting back, in the back of beyond

Written by: Mikhail Kaluzhsky All articles by: Mikhail Kaluzhsky

Written by: Thomas Rowley All articles by: Thomas Rowley
Published in: Home
Building new solidarities between movements: insurrectionary politics of food autonomy in the city of Athens

Written by: Ines Morales Bernardos All articles by: Ines Morales Bernardos
Published in: Home
Human nature as victim in Colombia

Written by: Lyda Fernanda Forero All articles by: Lyda Fernanda Forero
Published in: Home
COP21: the climate movement’s last summit?

Written by: Joost de Moor All articles by: Joost de Moor
Published in: Home
Trade union building in Myanmar

Written by: Sabrina Zajak All articles by: Sabrina Zajak
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
#Rezist. Citizens are back on the streets in Romania

Written by: Raluca Abăseacă All articles by: Raluca Abăseacă
Published in: oDR
Armenia in the trap of “national unity”

Written by: Anna Zhamakochyan All articles by: Anna Zhamakochyan
Published in: Home
Inequality and protest – getting it right

Written by: Sara Burke All articles by: Sara Burke
Published in: Home
Occupy is not the reason why Trump won

Written by: Anna Szolucha All articles by: Anna Szolucha
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Catalonian lessons: civil society has something to offer on the gaming tables of governance

Written by: Simona Levi All articles by: Simona Levi
Published in: Home
Standing Rock: victory celebrated, struggle to continue

Written by: Nancy Romer All articles by: Nancy Romer
Published in: Home
Social movements in Mexico: local roots, global struggles

Written by: Sergio Tamayo All articles by: Sergio Tamayo

Written by: Geoffrey Pleyers All articles by: Geoffrey Pleyers
Published in: Home
An end to the shame: stigma and political participation among Mexican sex workers

Written by: Marta Lamas All articles by: Marta Lamas
Published in: Home
The popular movement of Oaxaca, ten years later

Written by: Manuel Garza Zepeda All articles by: Manuel Garza Zepeda
Published in: Home
Networks, social movements and the internet in Mexico

Written by: Dorismilda Flores-Márquez All articles by: Dorismilda Flores-Márquez
Published in: Home
Liberation pedagogy in Mexico’s social movements

Written by: Guadalupe Olivier All articles by: Guadalupe Olivier

Written by: Sergio Tamayo All articles by: Sergio Tamayo
Published in: Home
Mexican environmental grassroots protest: what does it mean to resist and defend the territory in a repressive context?

Written by: Alice Poma All articles by: Alice Poma

Written by: Tommaso Gravante All articles by: Tommaso Gravante
Published in: oDR
Dissecting Russia’s winter of protest, five years on

Written by: Editors of OpenDemocracy Russia All articles by: Editors of OpenDemocracy Russia
Published in: oDR
The battle for Moscow

Written by: Petr V. Ivanov All articles by: Petr V. Ivanov
Published in: Home
Cherán. 5 years of self-government in an indigenous community in Mexico

Written by: Alejandra González Hernández All articles by: Alejandra González Hernández

Written by: Víctor Alfonzo Zertuche Cobos All articles by: Víctor Alfonzo Zertuche Cobos
Published in: Home
Democracy and social movements in Mexico

Written by: René Torres-Ruiz All articles by: René Torres-Ruiz
Published in: democraciaAbierta
How to build a movement-party: lessons from Rosario’s Future City

Written by: Kate Shea Baird All articles by: Kate Shea Baird
Published in: Home
Capitalism, revolution and racism in the US and the world

Written by: Keith Hart All articles by: Keith Hart
Published in: Home
Self-organised struggles of migrant care workers

Written by: Sarah Schilliger All articles by: Sarah Schilliger
Published in: Home
Escaping from asylum to act as citizens: political mobilization of refugees in Europe

Written by: Elias Steinhilper All articles by: Elias Steinhilper

Written by: Ilker Ataç All articles by: Ilker Ataç
Published in: Home
Protest against the deportation of asylum seekers

Written by: Sieglinde Rosenberger All articles by: Sieglinde Rosenberger
Published in: Home
Every refugee boat a rebellion? Supporting border transgressions at sea

Written by: Maurice Stierl All articles by: Maurice Stierl
Published in: Home
Brazilian political cycles and the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff

Written by: José Maurício Domingues All articles by: José Maurício Domingues
Published in: oDR
Where does the key to political change lie in the post-Soviet space?

Written by: Tom Junes All articles by: Tom Junes
Published in: Home
Rio’s Olympic ruins

Written by: Mariana Cavalcanti All articles by: Mariana Cavalcanti
Published in: Home
From slave market to Olympic venue: variations of capitalist accumulation in the port of Rio de Janeiro

Written by: Guilherme Leite Gonçalves All articles by: Guilherme Leite Gonçalves

Written by: Sérgio Costa All articles by: Sérgio Costa
Published in: Home
Rio, city of epithets: Olympic urbanism in context

Written by: Bruno Carvalho All articles by: Bruno Carvalho
Published in: Home
Rio’s real vs. unmet Olympic legacies: what they tell us about the future of cities?

Written by: Theresa Williamson All articles by: Theresa Williamson
Published in: oDR
From civil disobedience to armed violence: political developments in Armenia

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: oDR
In defence of society: an open platform
Published in: Home
Failed coup attempt in Turkey: the victory of democracy?

Written by: Zeynep Gambetti All articles by: Zeynep Gambetti
Published in: Home
Dismantling the democracy we wanted for Brazil

Written by: Paulo Henrique Martins All articles by: Paulo Henrique Martins
Published in: Home
Zimbabwe in turmoil: from the trenches

Written by: Simba J. Hungwe All articles by: Simba J. Hungwe
Published in: Home
The dilemma of the European Left

Written by: Jean De Munck All articles by: Jean De Munck
Published in: Home
Are we Spaniards better off five years afterwards?

Written by: Antonio Álvarez-Benavides All articles by: Antonio Álvarez-Benavides
Published in: Home
Spain’s political draw: a problem of programme or image?

Written by: Javier Franzé All articles by: Javier Franzé
Published in: oDR
Neoliberalism, mining and Armenia's politics of plunder

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: oDR
Their security, our poverty: militarisation and Lithuania’s new labour code

Written by: Noah Brehmer All articles by: Noah Brehmer
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
What role for the ETUC in organising workers in Europe?

Written by: Thiébaut Weber All articles by: Thiébaut Weber
Published in: Home
Affirming democracy: trade union action meets work fragmentation

Written by: Daniele Di Nunzio All articles by: Daniele Di Nunzio
Published in: oDR
Depoliticising protests in Armenia

Written by: Gohar Saroyan All articles by: Gohar Saroyan
Published in: Home
Democracy after Sanders

Written by: Vito Laterza All articles by: Vito Laterza
Published in: Home
Lebanese activists leave their ‘comfort zone’: how to overcome mistrust in conventional politics

Written by: Alexandra Kassir All articles by: Alexandra Kassir
Published in: Home
Is there a future for a social democracy?

Written by: Lars Hulgård All articles by: Lars Hulgård
Published in: Home
Karl Polanyi and twenty-first century socialism

Written by: Fred Block All articles by: Fred Block
Published in: Home
The crisis in European social democracy: a crisis like no other

Written by: Benoît Lévesque All articles by: Benoît Lévesque
Published in: Home
A new politics from the left?

Written by: Hilary Wainwright All articles by: Hilary Wainwright
Published in: Home
A human economy approach to development

Written by: Keith Hart All articles by: Keith Hart
Published in: Home
End of a cycle for the left in Latin America?

Written by: Jose Luis Coraggio All articles by: Jose Luis Coraggio
Published in: Home
Defending democracy, reinventing the left

Written by: Jean-Louis Laville All articles by: Jean-Louis Laville
Published in: Home
“We must never forget, so it never happens again”: Brazil’s peasant internationalism

Written by: Breno Bringel All articles by: Breno Bringel

Written by: Flavia Braga Vieira All articles by: Flavia Braga Vieira
Published in: oDR
They make money through our dead bodies

Written by: Anonymous anti-militarist feminists from Caucasus and Central Asia All articles by: Anonymous anti-militarist feminists from Caucasus and Central Asia
Published in: Home
« Nuit Debout » : citizens are back in the squares in Paris

Written by: Geoffrey Pleyers All articles by: Geoffrey Pleyers
Published in: Home
Open Letter to the International Community about the political situation in Brazil

Written by: Professors and All articles by: Professors and
Published in: Home
Japan after Japan

Written by: Eiji Oguma All articles by: Eiji Oguma

Written by: Krystian Woznicki All articles by: Krystian Woznicki
Published in: Home
After the world's largest mining disaster: what impacts? Who is affected?

Written by: Cristiana Losekann All articles by: Cristiana Losekann
Published in: Home
We need a Plan B for growth

Written by: Luis González Reyes All articles by: Luis González Reyes
Published in: democraciaAbierta
2013-2016: polarization and protests in Brazil

Written by: Breno Bringel All articles by: Breno Bringel
Published in: democraciaAbierta
Global South, beyond the State

Written by: Enara Echart Muñoz All articles by: Enara Echart Muñoz
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
'Commons sense’: you either see it or you don’t

Written by: Rosemary Bechler All articles by: Rosemary Bechler
Published in: Home
Emotion and protest in Turkey: what happened on 19 January, 2007?

Written by: Deniz Günce Demirhisar All articles by: Deniz Günce Demirhisar
Published in: Home
Belated tourists of a postponed-revolution

Written by: Peter Waterman All articles by: Peter Waterman
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Podemos: the schizophrenic road from public squares to the institutions

Written by: Arianne Sved All articles by: Arianne Sved
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
“Our situation is Quixotic and Machiavellian”: an interview with Podemos’ Jorge Moruno

Written by: Carlos Delclós All articles by: Carlos Delclós

Written by: Jorge Moruno All articles by: Jorge Moruno
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Introducing this week’s theme: 'Smile at the Indignados': Podemos' struggle for a new politics

Written by: Simona Rentea All articles by: Simona Rentea

Written by: Joan Pedro-Carañana All articles by: Joan Pedro-Carañana
Published in: Home
“We are seeing you”: protesting violent democracies in Kosova

Written by: Michael D. Kennedy All articles by: Michael D. Kennedy

Written by: Linda Gusia All articles by: Linda Gusia
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Paris has been hit at its heart

Written by: Geoffrey Pleyers All articles by: Geoffrey Pleyers
Published in: Home
Hong Kong’s angry young millennials: an interview with Joshua Wong

Written by: En Liang Khong All articles by: En Liang Khong

Written by: Joshua Wong All articles by: Joshua Wong
Published in: Home
Ankara’s war on peace

Written by: Zeynep Gambetti All articles by: Zeynep Gambetti
Published in: Home
“We are here!”: a new wave of anti-sectarian mobilizations in Lebanon

Written by: Alexandra Kassir All articles by: Alexandra Kassir
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
More than a refuge, a welcome

Written by: Francesco Salvini All articles by: Francesco Salvini

Written by: Bue Rübner Hansen All articles by: Bue Rübner Hansen

Written by: Manuela Zechner All articles by: Manuela Zechner
Published in: Home
South Africa’s twin rebellions: bifurcated protest

Written by: Peter Alexander All articles by: Peter Alexander
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Bahrain’s uprising: resistance and repression in the Gulf

Written by: Marc Owen Jones All articles by: Marc Owen Jones
Published in: Home
Negotiating environmentalism in a democratizing Iran

Written by: Simin Fadaee All articles by: Simin Fadaee
Published in: openDemocracyUK
Forever blowing bubbles: why Corbyn won Labour and how he can change Britain

Written by: Adam Ramsay All articles by: Adam Ramsay
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Hope, power and delusion

Written by: Ludovica Rogers All articles by: Ludovica Rogers
Published in: Home
Contested symbiosis: state-NGO relations in China

Written by: Joy Y. Zhang All articles by: Joy Y. Zhang
Published in: Home
A tale of two parks: a conversation between activists in Armenia and Turkey

Written by: Buket Türkmen All articles by: Buket Türkmen

Written by: Babken Der Grigorian All articles by: Babken Der Grigorian

Written by: Alex Sakalis All articles by: Alex Sakalis
Published in: Home
Surreptitious symbiosis: the relationship between NGO’s and movement activists

Written by: Marlies Glasius All articles by: Marlies Glasius

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: Home
Participatory representation: an interview with Paolo Gerbaudo

Written by: Paolo Gerbaudo All articles by: Paolo Gerbaudo
Published in: Home
Renewing the Latin American connection

Written by: Noam Titelman All articles by: Noam Titelman

Written by: Jean Tible All articles by: Jean Tible

Written by: Stephanie Erin Brewer All articles by: Stephanie Erin Brewer
Published in: Home
Getting ahead of ourselves: interview with an anti-TTIP activist

Written by: Tim Flitcroft All articles by: Tim Flitcroft
Published in: Home
Learning from social movement failure

Written by: Thomas Davies All articles by: Thomas Davies
Published in: Home
Solidarity needs to be infectious: a conversation between activists in Greece and Scotland

Written by: Christina Psarra All articles by: Christina Psarra

Written by: Robin McAlpine All articles by: Robin McAlpine
Published in: Home
Protests of the marginalised: an interview

Written by: Fazila Bhimji All articles by: Fazila Bhimji
Published in: Home
The crisis of democracy in Japan

Written by: Shujiro Yazawa All articles by: Shujiro Yazawa
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
Podemos’ dilemma and why leadership still matters

Written by: Marco Deseriis All articles by: Marco Deseriis
Published in: Home
From Gezi Park to Turkey’s transformed political landscape

Written by: Buket Türkmen All articles by: Buket Türkmen
Published in: Home
Moving beyond the squares: anticipating the debate

Written by: Marlies Glasius All articles by: Marlies Glasius

Written by: Alex Sakalis All articles by: Alex Sakalis

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: Home
The citizen revolutions in Latin America

Written by: François Houtart All articles by: François Houtart
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
A dilemma for Podemos

Written by: Jordi Vaquer All articles by: Jordi Vaquer
Published in: Home
Self-determined citizens? A new wave of civic activism in Armenia

Written by: Armine Ishkanian All articles by: Armine Ishkanian
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
24M: It was not a victory for Podemos, but for the 15M movement

Written by: Simona Levi All articles by: Simona Levi
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
The people united: on the populism of the Mediterranean purple wave

Written by: Paolo Gerbaudo All articles by: Paolo Gerbaudo
Published in: Home
Deciding how to decide: the Munduruku Indigenous Group and political participation in Brazil

Written by: Cristiana Losekann All articles by: Cristiana Losekann

Written by: Rodrigo Oliveira All articles by: Rodrigo Oliveira
Published in: Home
Ayotzinapa: the events that shook the Mexican youth

Written by: Ilan Bizberg All articles by: Ilan Bizberg
Published in: Can Europe Make It?
First we take Barcelona...

Written by: Ada Colau All articles by: Ada Colau
Published in: Home
Urban grassroots mobilization in central-east European cities

Written by: Kerstin Jacobsson All articles by: Kerstin Jacobsson
Published in: Home
A second generation of grassroots movements in central and eastern Europe?

Written by: Ionel N. Sava All articles by: Ionel N. Sava
Published in: Home
BRICS from below: counterpower movements in Brazil, India and South Africa

Written by: Patrick Heller All articles by: Patrick Heller
Published in: Home
After Tunis. What next for the World Social Forum?

Written by: Teivo Teivainen All articles by: Teivo Teivainen
Published in: Home
Waiting for emancipation: the prospects for liberal revolution in Africa

Written by: Keith Hart All articles by: Keith Hart
Published in: Home
Travelling theory

Written by: Michael Burawoy All articles by: Michael Burawoy
Published in: Home
Defending the global knowledge commons

Written by: Jackie Smith All articles by: Jackie Smith
Published in: Home
Still a chance for another Europe?

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Breno Bringel is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) and editor of Dados, a leading Brazilian Social Sciences Journal. His latest book is Global Modernity and Social Contestation, edited with José Maurício Domingues (Sage, 2015). Visit his website. Follow Breno on Twitter: @brenobringel.

Geoffrey Pleyers is FNRS researcher and Professor of sociology at the Université de Louvain, Belgium and associate researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales. He is the president of the Research Committee 47 "Social classes and social movements" of the International Sociological Association. Visit his website. Follow Geoffrey on Twitter: @GeoffreyPleyers.

Armine Ishkanian is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. She has expertise in civil society, democratisation, gender, and development in the post-socialist countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Follow Armine on Twitter: @Armish15.

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