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The 20th century ended with a “bang” in Puerto Rico, producing one of the most powerful and decisive massive demonstrations that the young 21st century first saw. Broadly, this paper will focus on the meaning and repercussions of the... more
Download full text at: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:50377 How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and... more
For more than half a century, the African-based Rastafarian movement has existed and thrived. Since the early 1930s, Rastafari has developed, changed and gained enough supporters to be considered “one of the most popular Afro-Caribbean... more
Article based on paper presented as part of Panel 24: ‘Looting, Refusing, Negating, Embodying’ ‘Critical Refusals’ Fourth Biennal Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania, 27-29th October... more
This article argues for the analytical potentials of the concept of spontaneity in our effort to understand critically the socio-spatial dynamics of Athens, but especially the contemporary collective protest actions in the city. Such... more
Micromobilization research constitutes a vital stream within social movement studies. Despite a wealth of empirical research and recent advances in micromobilization theory, research is still hampered by a myriad of issues. This article... more
This article explores the meaning of " resistance " and suggests a new path for " resistance studies, " which is an emerging and interdisciplinary field of the social sciences that is still relatively fragmented and heterogeneous.... more
You are a child growing up in Greece in the nineties. There is a high likelihood that one of your distant relatives, or even your aunt, your uncle, your grandfather, or your mother or father may be haunted by the memory of a few years in... more
Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body... more
‘What I miss the most’, I hear my friend saying from across our table, ‘is the ability we once had to imagine. I feel this has been taken away from us, you know?’ It is an unusually cold Athenian morning in the early winter of 2011,... more
La Red Mexicana de Estudios de los Movimientos Sociales, convoca al Primer Congreso Nacional de Estudios de los Movimientos Sociales. Cierre de convocatoria 4 de mayo de 2016. Sede Rectoría General de la Universidad Autónoma... more
This article explores the tensions between international solidarity groups and those they are in solidarity with. Taking the case of the Palestine Solidarity Movement and in particular the Ireland Palestine Solidarity campaign, the... more
Submitted version of paper published in Journal of Classical Sociology May 2012 vol. 12 no. 2 http://jcs.sagepub.com/content/12/2/256.abstract
In the runup to Mayday 2014 the special issue editors invited activists to comment on a range of questions about their experience of solidarity work and its practical challenges. We’ve edited the responses together into a single piece... more
"Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the... more
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de Vries-Jordan, Helma G. E. 2014. “The Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street: spillover, spillout, or coalescence?” Global Discourse. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.904547.
de Vries-Jordan, Helma G. E. 2014. “The Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street: spillover, spillout, or coalescence?” Global Discourse. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.904547.
Is activism located at a transnational level any diff erent from activism located at the national or even local level? More concrete: is there any diff erence in terms of backgrounds, attitudes, or behaviour among activists that are active... more