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Published in: HomeAyotzinapa: the events that shook the Mexican youth
These protests did not oust the government of Peña Nieto, although they demanded the resignation of the president,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?First we take Barcelona...
This spring, Barcelona has become, once again, the battleground for the radical soul of Europe.
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Published in: HomeUrban grassroots mobilization in central-east European cities
In expecting social movements in the post-socialist countries to follow the same repertoire of action as, for...
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Published in: HomeA second generation of grassroots movements in central and eastern Europe?
What comes next for central and eastern Europe’s civil society and social movements? The trend is for new forms of...
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Published in: HomeBRICS from below: counterpower movements in Brazil, India and South Africa
While movements in Brazil and South Africa have been fueled by unrealized socio-economic expectations and by...
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Published in: HomeAfter Tunis. What next for the World Social Forum?
One of the arguments is that as the crisis has hit the North, it is time for South-based activists to travel to...
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Published in: HomeWaiting for emancipation: the prospects for liberal revolution in Africa
Clearly, trade and finance are not organized, in Africa or the world at large, with a view to liberating a popular movement.
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Published in: HomeTravelling theory
Around social thinkers from the South, who have not made it into the conventional sociological tradition, Connell...
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Published in: HomeDefending the global knowledge commons
Members are encouraged to use creative commons licensing and to join others in a pledge to be open by agreeing to...
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Published in: HomeStill a chance for another Europe?
On the output side of Europe’s political system, we have an abdication of responsibility by representative...
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Published in: HomePrisons and radicalization in France
To make prisons less of a locus for radicalization, what is needed is more Muslim ministers, less overcrowding, more...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: scattered thoughts on a counter-revolutionary moment
The euphoric, Bakhtinian, carnivalesque and dramaturgical moment of January 2011, which caught the attention of...
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Published in: HomeGlobal terrorism as anti-movement
In an anti-movement can be found, in perverted fashion, those demands which a movement could have pursued – the call...
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Published in: HomeWar and social movements in the age of globalization
Faced by the threat of irregular warfare by non-state transnational actors, states have increasingly ignored the...
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Published in: HomeFood democracy South and North: from food sovereignty to transition initiatives
People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the...
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Published in: HomeOpen futures: struggles from below
They do not ask for permission, but they do things. Structural adjustment policies have increased urban slums...
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Published in: HomeopenMovements: social movements, global outlooks and public sociologists
Social scientists have a very specific contribution to deliver in a democratic public space, as openDemocracy’s...
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Published in: HomeThe Podemos wave
Never before has it become so clear that we live in societies that are politically democratic but socially fascist....