Interface: a journal for and about social movements
Volume 1 number 2 (November 2009)
ISSN 2009-2431
Contents
Table of contents PDF
Editorial
Ana Margarida Esteves, Sara Motta, Laurence Cox,
Civil society versus social movements PDF
Activist interview
Richard Pithouse,
To resist all degradations and divisions: an interview with S'bu Zikode PDF
Articles
Nora McKeon,
Who speaks for peasants? Civil society, social movements and the global governance of food and agriculture PDF
Michael Punch,
Contested urban environments: perspectives on the place and meaning of community action in central Dublin, Ireland PDF
Beppe de Sario, "Lo sai che non si esce vivi dagli anni ottanta?" Esperienze attiviste tra movimento e associazionismo di base nell'Italia post-77
("You do realise that nobody will get out of the eighties alive?" Activist experiences between social movement and grassroots voluntary work in Italy after 1977) PDF
Marco Prado, Federico Machado, Andrea Carmona,
A luta pela formalização e tradução da igualdade nas fronteiras indefinidas do estado contemporâneo: radicalização e / ou neutralização do conflito democrático? (The struggle to formalise and translate equality within the undefined boundaries of the contemporary state: radicalization or neutralization of democratic conflict?) PDF
Grzegorz Piotrowski,
Civil and / or "uncivil" society? The development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of political transformation during the post-socialist period PDF
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne,
Feminist media as alternative media: a literature review PDF
Piotr Konieczny,
Wikipedia: community or social movement? PDF
Action / teaching / research notes
Giles Ji Ungpakorn,
Why have most Thai NGOs chosen to side with the conservative royalists, against democracy and against the poor? [action note] PDF
Carlos Figueiredo,
O engajamento da sociedade civil angolana na discussão da constituição
("The involvement of Angolan civil society in debating the new constitution".) [action note] PDF
Christof Mackinger,
AETA, 278a und Verschwörung zur... Organisationsparagraphen zur Zerschlagung tierbefreierischen Aktivismus PDF (GER)
("AETA, paragraph 278 and conspiracy to… Conspiracy laws and the repression of animal liberation activism") [action note] PDF (ENG)
Anja Eickelberg,
"Coalitioning" for quality education in Brazil: diversity as virtue? [teaching note]
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Key documents
Peter Waterman,
Needed: a global labour charter movement PDF
Michael Neocosmos,
Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today
PDF
Reviews
Theresa O'Keefe,
review of Incite! Women of color against violence, The revolution will not be funded: beyond the nonprofit industrial complex. PDF
Maite Tapia,
review of Heidi Swarts, Organizing urban America: secular and faith-based progressive movements. PDF
David Eugster,
Demontage der Subversion: zur politischen Wirkung ästhetischer Techniken im 20. Jahrhundert. Rezension zu: Anna Schober, Ironie, Montage und Verfremdung. Ästhetischen Taktiken und die politische Gestalt der Demokratie
("The deconstruction of subversion: the political effect of aesthetic techniques in the 20th century. Review of Anna Schober, Irony, montage and alienation: aesthetic tactics and the political shape of democracy.") PDF
Roger Yates,
review of GL Francione, Animals as persons: essays on the abolition of animal exploitation. PDF
General material
Call for papers, issue three: crises, social movements and revolutionary transformations PDF
List of editorial contacts
List of journal participants
Call for new participants
Call for IT allies
About Interface
Interface: a journal for and about social movements is a peer-reviewed journal of practitioner research produced by movement participants and engaged academics. Interface is globally organised in a series of different regional collectives, and is produced as a multilingual journal.
The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
