Social Movements

Political Contestation and the Problem of Bordered Thinking

Jonathon Whooley • Nov 3 2016 • Articles

Regionalization, internationalization and context have blinded us to the impact of larger social movements in contemporary politics.

Interview – Susan Spronk

E-International Relations • Jan 13 2016 • Features

Professor Spronk discusses Latin American ’21st Century Socialism’, reflects on struggles against water privatization, and assesses the role of the BRICS in world order.

Interview – Michael Hardt

E-International Relations • Nov 11 2015 • Features

Michael Hardt discusses the changing forms of global structures since writing Empire with Negri and the interactions between social movements, politics and academics.

Contextualizing the Current Social Protest Movement in Lebanon

Martin Beck • Oct 10 2015 • Articles

Social movements that seek to combat corruption in Lebanon face a large number of obstacles when attempting to apply strategies suitable to change the system.

Review – Land and Freedom

John Gledhill • Jul 30 2015 • Features

An excellent piece of comparative scholarship that pulls no critical punches when it comes to addressing the contradictions which underlie these rural movements.

The European Left after Recession and Representation: Social Democracy or Bust?

David Bailey • Jun 14 2015 • Articles

The less austere management of European capitalism would amount to an attempt to revive the spirit of social democracy, despite it having been exposed as a dead end.

Neoliberalism and Social Movements

Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen • Jul 30 2014 • Articles

With increasing challenges to neoliberalism, questions turn to the outcome that will be arrived at after neoliberalism, and which actors will bring this about.

Review – Networks of Outrage and Hope

Veronica Barassi • Feb 27 2013 • Features

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movements, Castells’ book provides insight into the sudden rise of mass uprisings across the world, their political force, and momentum.

Review – African Women’s Movements

Maria Martin de Almagro • Jan 2 2013 • Features

This work examines the evolving sociopolitical transformation of women’s status in African societies, making a valuable contribution to the literature on gender and activism by illuminating how and why women mobilized and the difficulties in enacting transformative change.

The 4th Quadrant of Public Diplomacy

R. S. Zaharna • Nov 6 2012 • Articles

With Wikileaks, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy Movement, nation states are facing a second wake-up call in public diplomacy as adversarial publics challenge them in the quest for global public support.

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