Brian Holmes
mi, 22.04.2003 01:37
I am Brian Holmes, I am an art critic, culture critic and activist, usually all at once. I live in France and have been participating in many demonstrations these last years, first with the group Ne pas plier and more recently with Bureau d'Etudes, who try to map out the actors of global capitalism and the resistance to it.
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MI session at Manchester conference
merijn.o@gmx.net, 13.04.2003 05:13
The Mobilised Investigation project will be presented at the Manchester social movement conference -22nd to the 25 of April- together with other activist research projects.
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REINVENTING SOCIAL EMANCIPATION
many, 01.04.2003 15:03
Give a look to the papers published at this website
http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/emancipa/research/en/texts.html
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Activism research Easter meeting (Oviedo)
Mayo, 27.03.2003 07:43
Info Workshops in activism research and How to put together information and knowledge from the social movements and how to outreach/distribute this research during a Communication Strategies meeting in Oviedo (North Spanish State) from the 13 to the 10 of April 2003.
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Call for papers History matters
Lilaroja@gmx.net, 27.03.2003 06:50
Call for papers
HISTORY MATTERS
Social Movements Past, Present, and Future
Spring Conference: Saturday May 3rd, 2003
Committee on Historical Studies, the Sociology Department at the Graduate
Faculty of New School for Social Research, and International Labor and
Working-Class History journal
65 Fifth Avenue New York, NY
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/historymatters
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Sapienza Pirata
Mobilized Investigation , 14.02.2003 08:00
for an EU-free and self-governing European university
February 27-28, March the first
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Ordinary people, movements and intellectuals
Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 09:25
How can the anti-capitalist movement connect with working-class community politics in Ireland? And how can left intellectuals help? This paper looks at the historical framework and asks about the relationship between intellectuals, movements and ordinary people.
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Community-based oral history project
Ballymun Oral History Project, 09.02.2003 09:21
Documents from the Ballymun Oral History Project in north Dublin, a community-based oral history project into the actions of ordinary people creating a strong working-class community in the face of widespread poverty and official neglect.
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Transcripts of activist / academic network
Ireland from Below workshop, 09.02.2003 09:18
Transcripts of "Ireland from Below" get-together of community organisers and educators, radical greens, anti-corporate activists and new religious movements (Ireland, April 1999)
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The politics of activist research
Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 09:14
This paper draws on Gramsci's theorisation of human activity to argue for an understanding of research on social movements as a centrally political activity, and discusses the position of the researcher and valid research aims in this situation.
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Movements from below: where to now?
Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 09:12
Written just before Seattle, this paper looks at the directions of existing movements and asks how activists can evaluate the choices they face, pointing towards a counter-hegemonic, conflictual strategy of popular mobilisation.
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Theorising community politics in Ireland
Caitriona Mullan, Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 09:08
A socialist feminist analysis of working-class community development in Ireland as grounded in the "hidden knowledge" of daily practical struggles. Strengths and weaknesses of these movements, and possible steps forward.
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Rethinking "social movements" as a category
Martin Geoghegan, Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 09:05
The academic constructs of "social movements" and "the voluntary sector" are static and acritical, lacking the practical edge of the theorising carried out by activists in working-class community development in particular.
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Activist & academic forms of movement theory
Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 09:01
Academic ways of theorising social movements are very different from the process of activist theorising, because of the different situations and purposes of academic and movement intellectuals. Movement theorising is a dialogical and conflictual process.
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Postgrad research possibilities
Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 08:54
Possibility of doing an MLItt or PhD in Ireland, centred around participatory research into social movement practice. Geared particularly towards activists interested in carrying out research useful to their movements.
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Tools for Change
Laurence Cox, 09.02.2003 08:49
The Tools for Change web pages include details from various activist / academic projects: participatory research, theorising social movements, networking projects, and critiques of mainstream academic approaches to activism.
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On the Ideological Subject
Kate Khatib and John Duda, 08.02.2003 04:26
A political analysis of conflicts at the Pacifica radio network using the theories and methodologies of discourse analysis
and speech act theory.
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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE (Manchester)
John Duda, 07.02.2003 11:31
This is the conference at which it has been proposed to present the MI project and at which to have a face to face meeting with anyone who is able to come.
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Building Spaces
ak, 07.02.2003 07:19
Taking a look at Can Mas Deu, a squat on the outskirts of Barcelona, thinking about spaces, the anti-globalisation movement and shifts in emphasis....
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Prologue to Hyphoteses 891
Colectivo Situaciones, 26.01.2003 15:09
This text belongs to Colectivo Situaciones and it prologues the book "Hyphoteses 891. Beyond the piquetes", written by Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (MTD) (movement of unemployed workers) of Solano and Colectivo Situaciones, both from Argentine. Edited by the independent argentine editorial De mano en mano, November, 2002.
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