Protest and resistance
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Wayne Vucinic Book Prize 2007, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences." Endorsement by Slavoj Zizek: "Alexei Yurchak's Everything... more
The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on February 20, 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass... more
Harriet Jacobs’ slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl depicts the conditions of slavery of black women in antebellum America. Under the pseudonym of Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs illustrates the constant struggles of... more
Brenda Hillman’s 2018 collection, Extra Hidden Life Among the Days, is rich with many lives—bacterial, human, arboreal, fungal. A multi-media, mycelial entanglement of elegies, personal photographs, and journal meditations, Hillman’s... more
This thesis examines the central driver of recent mobilizations to be the need felt by society to seek a reinterpretation of democracy. This need for change is seen to emerge due to the damages caused to the social fabric by the impact of... more
Książka "Performans oporu" ma formę historii mówionej, czyli opiera się na osobistych przeżyciach i opiniach mówiących. To seria wywiadów o czasach PRL z wybitnymi polskimi artystami i aktywistami. Rozmowy te niejednokrotnie rzucają nowe... more
Loadenthal, Michael. “Cells, Communiqués and Monikers: The Insurrectionary Networks of Anti-State Attack.” In Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, edited by Uri Gordon and Ruth Kinna, 326–40. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. Abstract:... more
That author of this study draws attention to a case of resistance against the communist regime, which occurred in a Czech rural district almost 60 years ago. The work deals with peasants’ protest rally in front of the District National... more
From "A Questionnaire on Monuments"
Por meio da compreensão do ativismo de fãs como uma forma de resistência cotidiana cultural, econômica e criativa, o objetivo deste capítulo busca problematizar as relações entre participação, resistência e consumo de fãs do jogo on-line... more
Based on correspondence between Rabbi Regina Jonas and Ruth Cronheim in Berlin in 1942, this article examines the religious dimension of reproductive choices facing Jews in the Holocaust.
The Theses LVI belong to a series of hitherto unpublished early manuscripts of the Dutch humanist and jurisconsult Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) that were acquired by the University of Leiden in 1864. It is not certain when the Theses were... more
An account of an extraordinary confrontation between students and Special Branch, the political police arm of the NSW Police Force, on Sydney University campus in 1968.
Political Protest Graffiti is an increasingly visible form of rhetoric that provides a democratizing space to enable its disenfranchised peoples to articulate their own narratives. As a form of visual activism, the George Floyd Protest... more
Precies twee jaar na de mislukte coup tegen Erdoğan vaardigde het Turkse regime op 15 juli 2018 een decreet uit dat de autonomie van alle kunstenaars aan staatsinstellingen aan banden legt. Het is een zoveelste aanval tegen de vrije... more
In Op de vuist volgt Laurens Ham het spoor van het Nederlandstalige protestlied van de jaren zestig tot nu. Wat verbindt de ontregelende acties van Provo uit 1966 en de boerenprotesten van vandaag? Wat heeft het kroningsoproer van 30... more
While Saudi Arabia’s role as a counter-revolutionary force in the Middle East is widely understood and thoroughly documented, the counter-revolutionary role that Iran plays in the region’s politics has been largely overlooked. In this... more
Following his release from prison in 1986, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti released the album, Beast of No Nation to critical acclaim. The song came both as a scathing criticism of the Nigerian military regime at the time and in response to the event... more
Esta investigación presenta la delincuencia como una expresión encubierta de malestar y conflicto en uno de los momentos de mayor tensión social de la España contemporánea, el primer tercio del siglo XX, en un distrito judicial agrario,... more
Telecommunications do not simply rearrange information and ideas in space, they also alter the balance of power in social struggles. Although it supports centralization of power and capital, subordinated groups can achieve certain goals... more
This paper considers the role of the informal economy in African economic development as and the political ramifications of informality in South Africa. SA has a unique history of an expanding informal economy dating back to labor... more
This unpublished paper (20 pages, 6,400 words in the text + 45 footnotes) was presented in an abridged version as a lecture at the international conference 'The Nations of Europe Facing the Holocaust', Session V: West European Countries... more
Occupy Wall Street was a movement of many faces. Its impact on the public debate was significant, sparking support and criticism from a variety of sources. The occupation of the park, a ‘privately owned public space’, awoke the interest... more
This article discusses the transformation of the Moroccan state under contemporary neoliberal globalization, and considers what this transition means for the ways in which scholars view state-society interplay in Morocco and the Arab... more
Presentation based on Kenya's War of Independence (Nairobi: Vita Books).
Panel 1 - Critique of history and history of critique with Christian Garland, Harry Cross & Matt Bolton
British Sociological Association (BSA), Durham University, 20th September 2017
British Sociological Association (BSA), Durham University, 20th September 2017
This chapter is about the ethics of political dissent among disadvantaged black youth. Dissent that is “impure” contains valid political content but also includes other elements that diverge sharply from conventional or widely held... more
Wie funktioniert das Selfie als Protestwerkzeug? Erzeugen Bildphänomene im Netz eine globale Community? An Protestbewegungen in aller Welt zeigt Kerstin Schankweiler, welche Dynamiken schnell verbreitete Bilder in Zeiten der Sozialen... more
REINVENTING THE LEFT. THE POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL BASES OF PODEMOS. With the worsening of the economic crisis, unemployment and social inequalities in Europe, an analogy spreads between the economic and political crisis of... more
« Le voeu d'obéissance a été émis pour vivre ''selon les Constitutions''. Si celles-ci deviennent lettre morte en matière importante, le voeu garde t-il sa rigueur pre-mière ? […] Souffrir en silence des désagrégations que l'on ressent... more
Performances and performance cultures are often seen in our discipline as indicative of the political unconscious in the way they shape dramatizations of collective myths and identities. Yet they are also so much entangled with the... more
This is the pre-print working paper version, see the full printed version: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v025/25.3.onuch.html The protests that began in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on 21 Novem- ber 2013 and became... more