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Published in: HomeTake the quiet lifeA whole array of trivial pursuits, from Jamie Oliver cookbooks to popular dieting, will always be on hand to...
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Published in: HomeThe time is now: Hong Kong’s Occupy Central“Can you not hear that clock ticking? Or is that just the beating of our hearts pounding ever harder? Time is not on...
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Published in: TransformationArt after OccupyIn the aftermath of Occupy, artists are utilizing a diversity of tactics at the cutting edges of radical politics...
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Published in: HomeFrom Facebook movements to city square movementsUse of the internet has not led to a predominance of virtual actions and movements over mobilizations in ‘physical...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s Marches of Dignity, 22M, 2014: not anti-politicsThe marches continue the collective resistance that has galvanized Spanish civil society since the 15-M occupation...
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Published in: HomeWhen anarchism goes popIn current protest culture the estranged ideologies of anarchism and progressive populism are coming together around...
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Published in: TransformationJoy arises, rules fall apart: thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall StreetIn these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a "we" that did not until then exist, at least not as...
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Published in: HomeA public for democracy: overcoming mediated segregation in TurkeyIn this context, “Gezi”, as a synonym for all the places in Turkey where protests and citizen forums have sprung up,...
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Published in: HomeBetween global and local: a new dialectic of political expression for the twenty-first centuryThree weeks into the ongoing protests in Bulgaria, the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations...
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Published in: Home‘We can’t be content with running alternative coffee shops, while leaving the global financial system to our opponents’Funded by their sympathisers in business and corporations, the neoliberals worked at promoting that programme,...
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Published in: Home'Sorry for the inconvenience, we are changing the country': BrazilIn the last month, Brazil has joined the growing number of countries whose civil society has gone to the streets to...
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Published in: HomeThe fight for the square - Tahrir, Sol, Wall Street, Taksim“The fight for the square is turning people into something new, whatever one thinks of what can happen after…”, a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘We are all in this together’: a civic awakening in Bosnia-HerzegovinaIn Bosnia-Herzegovina, a seemingly trivial administrative issue ignited an unprecedented movement of civic...
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Published in: HomeOccupy Wall Street has some questions for Taksim Square
In interview, Müştereklerimiz, “The Network for Our Commons” argues that the really invisible flag, here in Taksim...
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Published in: HomeThe boundaries of Israeli unity
Two years ago, the rallying cry was "The people demand social justice", which was more open ended, proving its...
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Published in: HomeThe only socialism we will ever know?Looking for signs of life and the difference that was made, surely that dreary grey oblong could not have been the...
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Published in: HomeNot fearing to be liked: the majoritarianism of contemporary protest culture
While the anti-globalisation movement and before it the new social movements tended to cast themselves as...
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Published in: HomeOccupy a narrativeOne year on, the Occupy movement is but the shadow of its former self. Whatever happened to the 99%?
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Published in: HomeBeyond Occupy: progressive activists in Europe
Occupy is part of a wide range of subterranean movements that explore ways to complement representative democracy...
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Published in: HomeExperiments in democracy and diversity within the Occupy Movement(s)Horizontal democracy attempts to ensure equality by embracing diversity and conflict. Within these political...
