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Interface volume 10 issues 1 & 2. Open issue
Contents Volume 10 issues 1-2, single file PDF (6.27 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Open issue Lesley Wood, Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 3) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 11 issue 2 Understanding and challenging right-wing movements (pp. 4 – 7) PDF (EN) General pieces Toward an intersectional political economy of autonomous media resources (peer-reviewed ... Read more
Contents Volume 10 issues 1-2, single file PDF (6.27 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Open issue Lesley Wood, Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 3) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 11 issue 2 Understanding and challenging right-wing movements (pp. 4 – 7) PDF (EN) General pieces Toward an intersectional political economy of autonomous media resources (peer-reviewed article) Sandra Jeppesen and Kamilla Petrick (pp. 8 – 37) PDF EN Explorations of an arts-based activism framework: ARTifariti international art and human rights meeting in western Sahara (peer-reviewed article) Tiffanie Hardbarger and Cindy Maguire (pp. 38 – 69) PDF EN The theater as a common good: artists, activists and artivists on stage (peer-reviewed article) Simone Maddanu (pp. 70 – 91) PDF EN To change everything, it takes everyone: recursivity in the People’s Climate March (peer-reviewed article) Danielle Falzon, Samuel Maron, Robert Wengronowitz, Alex Press, Benjamin Levy and Jeffrey Juris (pp. 92 – 116) PDF EN Turtles & teamsters revival? Analyzing labor unions’ environmental discourse from the 2014 People’s Climate March (peer-reviewed article) Lauren Contorno (pp. 117 – 148) PDF EN Mobilising civil society: can the climate movement achieve transformational social change? (peer-reviewed article) Neil Gunningham (pp. 149 – 169) PDF EN Tales we tell, speaking out loud: understanding motivations of social movement activists through auto-biography and story (peer-reviewed article) Mike Aiken (pp. 170 – 195) PDF EN (Still) writing a history of now: #NoCapitulation (research note) Phil Hedges (pp. 196 – 214) PDF EN Rural agitation in Ireland 1710 – 2010: a bibliography (research bibliography) Tomás MacSheoin (pp. 215 – 278) PDF EN Why do men join the men’s rights movement in Malta? (peer-reviewed article) Michael Briguglio and Christabelle Caruana (pp. 279 – 296) PDF EN All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size (peer-reviewed article) Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Tautvydas Juskauskas and Md. Boby Sabur (pp. 170 – 195) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 322 – 365) Review Essay: Social Activism, Academic Belligerence, and Critical Animal Studies David Alan Nibert and Sue Coe, 2017, Animal Oppression and Capitalism; Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson, 2017, Critical Animal Studies: Towards Trans-Species Social Justice. Review essay author: Andrew Kettler Wolfe, Mikael D. 2017. Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico. Review author: Dawn Paley James Kelly, 2017, Food Rioting in Ireland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The ‘Moral Economy’ and the Irish Crowd. Review author: T Mac Sheoin Pierpaolo Mudu and Sutapa Chattopadhyay, 2017, Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy. Review author: Leslie Gauditz Zeynep Tufekçi, 2017, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Review author: Pascale Dangoisse Anna Feigenbaum, 2017, Tear Gas: From the Battlefield of World War I to the Streets of Today. Review author: Alexander Dunlap Sabrina Zajak, 2017, Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China. Review author: Melanie Kryst Gonzalo Villanueva, 2018, A Transnational History of the Australian Animal Movement, 1970-2015. Review author: Marie Leth-Espensen Lee A. Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz, eds., 2018, Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements. Review Author: Ayman Alsadawi List of editorial contacts Cover art: Photos and collage by Sutapa Chattopadhyay. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 9 issue 2. Social movement thinking beyond the core
Contents Volume 9 issue 2, single file PDF (6.45 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Social movement thinking beyond the core: theories and research in post-colonial and post-socialist societies Laurence Cox, Alf Nilsen, Geoffrey Pleyers (pp. 1 – 36) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 10 issue 2 Political parties, trade unions and social movements: emancipatory reconfigurations ... Read more
Contents Volume 9 issue 2, single file PDF (6.45 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Social movement thinking beyond the core: theories and research in post-colonial and post-socialist societies Laurence Cox, Alf Nilsen, Geoffrey Pleyers (pp. 1 – 36) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 10 issue 2 Political parties, trade unions and social movements: emancipatory reconfigurations of popular organisation (pp. 37 – 44) PDF (EN) Themed pieces Bringing in the South: towards a global paradigm for social movement studies (peer-reviewed article) Simin Fadaee (pp. 45 – 60) PDF EN What it takes to compare non-core movements: a world-systems perspective. Two cases from contemporary East Central European movements (peer-reviewed article) Agnes Gagyi (pp. 61 – 82) PDF EN Politicisation and depoliticisation of ecology: Polish and Romanian perspectives (peer-reviewed article) Pepijn van Eeden (pp. 83 – 113) PDF EN Emotive acts of citizenship, social change and knowledge production in Lebanon (peer-reviewed article) Dina Kiwan (pp. 114 – 142) PDF EN Grief and the inter-cultural public sphere: “rights of nature” and the contestation of “global coloniality” (peer-reviewed article) Erin Fitz-Henry (pp. 143 – 161) PDF EN Collaboration and competition: market queens, trade unions and collective action of informal workers in Ghana’s Makola Market (peer-reviewed article) Tanja D. Hendriks (pp. 162 – 187) PDF EN What happened to the peasants? Material for a history of an alternative tradition of resistance in Ireland (peer-reviewed article) Tomás Mac Sheoin (pp. 188 – 275) PDF EN General pieces Toward an anti-fracking mobilization toolkit: ten practices from Western Newfoundland’s campaign (peer-reviewed article) Leah M. Fusco and Angela V. Carter (pp. 276 – 299) PDF EN From dams to democracy: framing processes and political opportunities in Chile’s Patagonia Without Dams movement (peer-reviewed article) Sophia L. Borgias and Yvonne A. Braun (pp. 300 – 328) PDF EN Facilitating dissident action: perils and potentials of a self-organising initiative (event analysis) Signe Thydal and Christian F. Svensson (pp. 329 – 343) PDF EN El tractament de les vagues a la premsa espanyola: anàlisi de la informació sobre causes i conseqüències (research note) Iván Carretero-Navarro and Eva Espinar-Ruiz (pp. 344 – 352) PDF CA Not yet the end of the world: political cultures of opposition and creation in the global youth climate justice movement (peer-reviewed article) John Foran, Summer Gray and Corrie Grosse (pp. 353 – 379) PDF EN Ghosts at work: notes on workplace hauntings (research note) Bert Lewis (pp. 380 – 388) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 389 – 444) Donna Haraway, 2016, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Review author: Carolyn Elerding Chris Robé, 2017, Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas. Review author: Beth Geglia Sharpe, Christina, 2016, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Review author: Shannon Walsh Robbie Shilliam, 2015, The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections. Review author: Lewis B.H. Eliot Ingeborg Gaarde, 2017, Peasants negotiating a global policy space – La Via Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security. Review author: Maria Vasile Wesley Lowery, 2017, They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2016, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Christopher J. Lebron, 2017, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Review author: Andrew Kettler Jodi Dean, 2016, Crowds and Party. Donatella della Porta, Joseba Fernández, Hara Kouki and Lorenzo Mosca, 2017, Movement Parties Against Austerity. Richard Seymour, 2016, Corbyn. The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. Review author: Andy Mathers Dylan Taylor, 2017, Social Movements and Democracy in the 21st century. Review author: Laurence Cox Harald Bauder, 2017, Migration Borders Freedom. Review author: Sutapa Chattopadhyay Nandini Sundar, 2016, The Burning Forest: India’s war on Bastar. Review author: Sutapa Chattopadhyay Kristian Lasslett (2014), State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining. Review Author: Alexander Dunlap Adam Greenfield, 2017, Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. Review author: Harry Warne List of editorial contacts Cover art: Photo of the Rozbrat squat in Poznan, Poland. © Miguel Martinez 2017. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Contents Volume 9 issue 1, single file PDF (9.77 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial General issue Lesley Wood, Irina Ceric, Laurence Cox, Radha d’Souza, Ana Margarida Esteves, Sara Motta, Jiří Navrátil, Dawn Paley, Bjarke Risager, Eduardo Romanos, Heike Schaumberg, Anna Szołucha, Peter Waterman (pp. 1 – 8 ) PDF (EN) Obituary Peter Waterman 1936 – 2017: ... Read more
Contents Volume 9 issue 1, single file PDF (9.77 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial General issue Lesley Wood, Irina Ceric, Laurence Cox, Radha d’Souza, Ana Margarida Esteves, Sara Motta, Jiří Navrátil, Dawn Paley, Bjarke Risager, Eduardo Romanos, Heike Schaumberg, Anna Szołucha, Peter Waterman (pp. 1 – 8 ) PDF (EN) Obituary Peter Waterman 1936 – 2017: in memoriam Laurence Cox (pp. 9 – 16) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 10 issue 1 Political parties, trade unions and social movements: emancipatory reconfigurations of popular organisation (pp. 17 – 24) PDF (EN) Open issue Lessons for Internet campaigning from the 2016 US presidential primaries (practice note) David C Hoffman, Danny Lundy, Amanda Anderson and Michael Lanza (pp. 25 – 39) PDF EN Safety pin solidarity: a lesson in tactics (practice note) Chandra Russo (pp. 40 – 45) PDF EN A radical common sense: on the use of direct action in Dublin since 2014 (article) Brian Mallon (pp. 46 – 71) PDF EN Writing a history of now: the Campbell House rent strike (peer-reviewed article) Phil Hedges (pp. 72 – 102) PDF EN Implementing the principles of kotahitanga / unity and manaakitanga / hospitality in community peace activism: an experiment in peace building (peer-reviewed article) Janine M Joyce and Joseph Llewellyn (pp. 103 – 122) PDF EN The local food movement in Belgium: from prefigurative activism to social innovations (peer-reviewed article) Geoffrey Pleyers (pp. 123 – 139) PDF EN No Expo Network: multiple subjectivities, online communication strategies, and the world outside (peer-reviewed article) Niccolò Bertuzzi (pp. 140 – 160) PDF EN The Irish water charges movement: theorising “the social movement in general” (article) Laurence Cox (pp. 161 – 203) PDF EN Protest, emotion and change: an analysis of two women’s collectives fighting against machismo in Oaxaca, Mexico (peer-reviewed article) Alice Poma and Tommaso Gravante (pp. 204 – 229) PDF EN Greek society in crisis and in motion: building the material bases for an alternative society from the bottom up (peer-reviewed article) Georgia Bekridaki and Antonios Broumas (pp. 230 – 255) PDF EN Re-membering practices of popular education in the struggle for an alternative South Africa (peer-reviewed article) Thembi Luckett, Shirley Walters and Astrid von Kotze (pp. 256 – 280) PDF EN Teaching across borders (action note) Jeffrey Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin (pp. 281 – 288) PDF EN ¡Poder Popular de verdad! Etnografía del movimiento contra la construcción de una Cárcel en Cariaco (Municipio Ribero, Estado Sucre, Venezuela) (event analysis) Stefano Boni (pp. 289 – 299) PDF ES Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and sanitation are a human right” (peer-reviewed article) Andreas Bieler (pp. 300 – 326) PDF EN Beyond growth, capitalism, and industrialism? Consensus, divisions and currents within the emerging movement for sustainable degrowth (peer-reviewed article) Matthias Schmelzer and Dennis Eversberg (pp. 327 – 356) PDF EN An oral history of Peoples’ Global Action (research note) Laurence Cox and Lesley Wood (pp. 357 – 358) PDF EN Special section: “The right to housing in theory and practice: going beyond the West” The right to housing in theory and practice: going beyond the West (special section editorial) Katia Valenzuela-Fuentes, Dominika V. Polanska and Anne Kaun (pp. 359 – 367) PDF EN Modes of knowledge production in the study of radical urban movements (peer-reviewed article) Joanna Kostka and Katarzyna Czarnota (pp. 368 – 388) PDF EN Homelessness, citizenship and need interpretation: reflections on organizing with homeless people in Hungary (peer-reviewed article) Bálint Misetics (pp. 389 – 423) PDF EN Contemporary housing activism in Serbia: provisional mapping (peer-reviewed article) Ana Vilenica (with Ana Džokić and Marc Neelan / Who Builds the City) (pp. 424 – 447) PDF EN FUCVAM: cooperativismo de vivienda, de los barrios en Montevideo a una alternativa contrahegemónica en otros Sures (peer-reviewed article) Marta Solanas Domínguez (pp. 448 – 476) PDF ES Society of homeowners and possible cooperative future: case of Slovenia (peer-reviewed article) Klemen Ploštajner (pp. 477 – 496) PDF EN Squatting: reappropriating democracy from the state (peer-reviewed article) Andrea Aureli and Pierpaolo Mudu (pp. 497 – 521) PDF EN Housing activism: beyond the West (panel discussion) Activist panel (pp. 522 – 538) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 539 – 581) Heather Ann Thompson, 2016, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy. Review author: Elva Orozco Andy Blunden, 2016, The Origins of Collective Decision Making. Review author: Bonnie Nardi Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter N. Funke (Eds), 2017, The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements. Review author: Raphael Schlembach Nicholas Hildyard, 2016, Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial extraction and the Global South. Review author: Alexander Dunlap Javier Sicilia, 2016, El Deshabitado. Review author: Andrew Smolski William K. Carroll, 2016, Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice. Review author: Andrew Kettler Gladys Tzul Tzul, 2016, Sistemas de Gobierno Comunal Indígena: Mujeres Y Tramas de Parentesco En Chuimeq’ena’. Review Author: Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera William K. Carroll and Kanchan Sarker (Eds), 2016, A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony. Review author: Laurence Cox Robert M. Press, 2015, Ripples of Hope: How ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence. Review author: Richa Biswas Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar (Eds), 2015, Marxism in the 21st Century: Crisis, Critique & Struggle. Review author: Lika Rodin General material Event notice VI Encuentro Internacional “La economía de los/as trabajadores/as” (30 August – 2 September 2017, provincia de Buenos Aires) (ES / EN) (pp. 582 – 583) PDF ES / EN Guidelines for event announcements (p. 584) PDF EN Social movement journal info Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements (pp. 585 – 589) PDF EN Interview with activist Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco Kara Andrade, Ernesto Castañeda and Luis Rubén Díaz-Cepeda (pp. 590 – 600) PDF EN List of editorial contacts Cover art: Photo is from the Candlelight Vigil protests in Seoul, South Korea, copyright to Afnos. The image is used under a creative commons licence. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 8 issue 2. Social movement auto/biographies
Contents Volume 8 issue 2, single file PDF (7.41 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Social movement auto/biographies Peter Waterman, Lesley Wood, Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 9) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 9 issue 2 Social movement thinking beyond the core: theories and research in post-colonial and post-socialist societies (pp. 10 – 18) PDF (EN) ... Read more
Contents Volume 8 issue 2, single file PDF (7.41 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Social movement auto/biographies Peter Waterman, Lesley Wood, Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 9) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 9 issue 2 Social movement thinking beyond the core: theories and research in post-colonial and post-socialist societies (pp. 10 – 18) PDF (EN) Themed pieces A brief reflection on Conxa Pérez’ political commitments (research note) Social Library Conxa Pérez (pp. 19 – 28) PDF EN Professionalisation and precariousness: perspectives on the sustainability of activism in everyday life (peer-reviewed article) Silke Roth (pp. 29 – 58) PDF EN The rise and fall of the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (peer-reviewed article) David Van Deusen (pp. 59 – 80) PDF EN Of icons, of myths and of internationalists (research note) Peter Waterman (pp. 81 – 94) PDF EN Gerard Kester’s search for democracy: on the autobio of a Dutch academic specialist on worker self-management (interview) Peter Waterman (pp. 95 – 109) PDF EN Social movement auto/biographies: a rough guide to sources and resources (bibliography) Peter Waterman (pp. 110 – 149) PDF EN Protest communities and activist enthusiasm: student occupations in contemporary Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (peer-reviewed article) Indira Palacios-Valladares (pp. 150 – 170) PDF EN Researching transnational activist lives: Irish Buddhists and the British Empire (research note) Laurence Cox (pp. 171 – 183) PDF EN General pieces The African University as a site of protest: decolonisation, praxis, and the Black Student Movement at the University Currently Known as Rhodes (peer-reviewed article) Paddy O’Halloran (pp. 184 – 210) PDF EN Pedagogies of struggle and collective organization: the educational practices of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (peer-reviewed article) Alessandro Mariano, Erivan Hilário, Rebecca Tarlau (pp. 211 – 242) PDF EN Notas sobre um deslocamento de legitimidades: uma discussão acerca da violência a partir das jornadas de junho 2013 (peer-reviewed article) Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes (pp. 243 – 260) PDF PT Voices from the seismic crater in the trial of the Major Risk Committee: a local counternarrative of “the l’Aquila Seven” (peer-reviewed article) Pamela Pietrucci (pp. 261 – 285) PDF EN Why so serious? Framing comedies of recognition and repertoires of tactical frivolity within social movements (peer-reviewed article) Adam Kingsmith (pp. 286 – 310) PDF EN What could it mean to mourn? Notes on and towards a radical politics of loss and grieving (peer-reviewed article) David Langstaff (pp. 311 – 362) PDF EN Lotte per il diritto alla casa nello Stato spagnolo: la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca. Campagne, successi e alcune chiavi di riflessione (peer-reviewed article) Luca Sebastiani, Borja Íñigo Fernández Alberdi, Rocío García Soto (pp. 363 – 393) PDF IT Fighting (for) gender equality: the roles of social movements and power resources (peer-reviewed article) Ruedi Epple and Sebastian Schief (pp. 394 – 432) PDF EN On Oakland’s Decolonize/Occupy Moment 2011-2013 (event analysis) John Hayakawa Torok (pp. 433 – 443) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 444 – 475) Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga (trans. Janet Biehl), 2016, Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan. Reviewed by Patrick Huff Kerstin Jacobsson (Ed.), 2015, Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Reviewed by Bojan Baća Dario Azzellini (Ed.), 2015, An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy. Reviewed by Gerard Kester Peter Waterman, 2014, From Coldwar Communism to the Global Emancipatory Movement: Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist. Reviewed by David Featherstone Robert Ogman, 2013, Against the Nation: Anti-National Politics in Germany. Reviewed by Ina Schmidt Lorenzo Bosi, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, and Daniela Pisoiu (Eds.), 2015, Political Violence in Context: Time, Space and Milieu. Reviewed by Andrew Kettler Shaazka Beyerle, 2014, Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice. Reviewed by Valesca Lima Holanda List of editorial contacts List of journal participants Cover art photo: Angela Davis speaking at Myer Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta. Photo attribution to Nick Wiebe, licensed CC BY 2.5. The image has been altered from the original for an A4 format. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 8 issue 1. General issue
Contents Volume 8 issue 1, single file PDF (4.8 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial General issue Kasim Tirmizey, Anna Szolucha (pp. 1 – 5) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 9 issue 1 Open call (p. 6) PDF (EN) General articles Protesting the neoliberal university: the Danish student movement “A different university” (peer-reviewed article) Bjarke Skærlund ... Read more
Contents Volume 8 issue 1, single file PDF (4.8 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial General issue Kasim Tirmizey, Anna Szolucha (pp. 1 – 5) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 9 issue 1 Open call (p. 6) PDF (EN) General articles Protesting the neoliberal university: the Danish student movement “A different university” (peer-reviewed article) Bjarke Skærlund Risager and Mikkel Thorup (pp. 7 – 33) PDF EN Feminism, crises and affect: women in academia contemplating publics and performativities (research note) Anastasia Christou (pp. 34 – 44) PDF EN Organizing in abeyance: examining the single-payer healthcare movement in the era of Affordable Care Act implementation (peer-reviewed article) Shelley K. White and Amy Finnegan (pp. 45 – 76) PDF EN A survey of the Living Wage movement in Canada: prospects and challenges (peer-reviewed article) Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli (pp. 77 – 96) PDF EN Activists and philanthropists: understanding the political habitus of Salvadorans in the D.C. Metro area (peer-reviewed article) Karen Tejada (pp. 97 – 116) PDF EN Strengthening the climate action movement: strategies from contemporary social action campaigns (peer-reviewed article) Laurence L. Delina and Mark Diesendorf (pp. 117 – 141) PDF EN The evolving texture of environmentalism and submergence of justice: a critical note on the Narmada Valley protest in India (peer-reviewed article) Suresh Babu (pp. 142 – 156) PDF EN Hunger power: the embodied protest of the political hunger strike (peer-reviewed article) Amanda Machin (pp. 157 – 180) PDF EN The world according to social movement journals: a preliminary mapping (peer-reviewed article) Tomás Mac Sheoin (pp. 181 – 204) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 205 – 237) Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, 2014, The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organizing Hope. Reviewed by Ryan A. Knight Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky, and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (Eds.), 2014, Marxism and Social Movements. Reviewed by Christina Heatherton Anne Alexander & Mostafa Bassiouny, 2014, Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution. Reviewed by Stephen M. Strenges James S. Ormrod, 2014, Fantasy and Social Movements. Reviewed by Andrew Kettler Michelle D. Bonner, 2014, Policing protest in Argentina and Chile. Reviewed by Tomás MacSheoin Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, 2015, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call. Reviewed by Maja Curcic Óscar García Agustín, 2015, Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change. Reviewed by Alexandra Ana List of editorial contacts List of journal participants Cover art photo credit: Black Lives Matter, 15 January 2015. This photo was taken during a Black Lives Matter rally at McKeldin Square in downtown Baltimore. Three months later the city would erupt in unrests due to the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody. Since moving to Baltimore from Europe 20 years ago, Dorret Oosterhoff has been all over the city to document vibrant community events. She specialises in photographing musicians in intimate jazz club settings. To see some of her work go to: www.dorret.com. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 7 issue 2. Movements in post/socialisms
Contents Volume 7 issue 2, single file PDF (3.9 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Movements in post/socialisms Jiři Navrátil, Kevin Lin, Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 8 ) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 8 issue 2 Social movement auto/biographies (pp. 9 – 14) PDF (EN) Movements in post/socialisms Why don’t East European movements address inequalities ... Read more
Contents Volume 7 issue 2, single file PDF (3.9 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Movements in post/socialisms Jiři Navrátil, Kevin Lin, Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 8 ) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 8 issue 2 Social movement auto/biographies (pp. 9 – 14) PDF (EN) Movements in post/socialisms Why don’t East European movements address inequalities the way Western European movements do? A review essay on the availability of movement-relevant research (review essay, peer-reviewed) Ágnes Gagyi (pp. 15 – 26) PDF EN A brief green moment: the emergence and decline of the Polish anti-nuclear and environmental movement (peer-reviewed article) Kacper Szulecki, Tomasz Borewicz and Janusz Waluszko (pp. 27 – 48) PDF EN From political neutrality to strategic alliance: the trade union movement as a political actor after the post-socialist transformation in Slovakia (peer-reviewed article) Monika Uhlerová (pp. 49 – 74) PDF EN General articles Unequal power relations in the governance of the World Social Forum process: an analysis of the practices of the Nairobi Forum (peer-reviewed article) Andrea Rigon (pp. 75 – 97) PDF EN Info-capitalism and resistance: how information shapes social movements (peer-reviewed article) Alessandra Renzi (pp. 98 – 119) PDF EN Challenging electoral authoritarianism in Malaysia: the embodied politics of the Bersih movement (peer-reviewed article) Sandra Smeltzer and Daniel J. Paré (pp. 120 – 144) PDF EN Wondering while wandering: living between academia and activism (peer-reviewed article) Valeria Pecorelli (pp. 145 – 160) PDF EN Post-representational epistemology in practice: processes of relational knowledge creation in autonomous social movements (peer-reviewed article) Alissa Starodub (pp. 161 – 191) PDF EN An enfant terrible of international communism (and international communication) (research note) Peter Waterman (pp. 192 – 200) PDF EN How activists can challenge double standards (action note) Brian Martin (pp. 201 – 213) PDF EN Palestinian armed resistance: the absent critique (peer-reviewed article) Claudia Saba (pp. 214 – 238) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 239 – 271) Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen, We Make Our Own History, Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism. Reviewed by Christopher Gunderson Chris Dixon, Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements. Reviewed by Lesley J. Wood Theresa O’Keefe, Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements. Reviewed by Annette Behrens Betsy Leondar-Wright, Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures. Reviewed by Bob Eastman Todd Wolfson, Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left. Reviewed by Gino Canella Steve Martinot, The Need to Abolish the Prison System: An Ethical Indictment. Reviewed by Nick J. Sciullo Temitope Oriola, Criminal resistance: the politics of kidnapping oil workers. Reviewed by Tomás Mac Sheoin List of editorial contacts List of journal participants Cover art photo credit: Jiři Navrátil. Prague Pride 2012 (GLBT / queer parade, 18 August 2012). 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 7 issue 1. Movement practice(s)
Contents Volume 7 issue 1, single file PDF (8.49 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Movement practice(s) Cal Andrews, Laurence Cox, Lesley Wood (pp. 1 – 7) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 8 issue 1 Open issue (p. 8 ) PDF (EN) Movement practice(s) Apolitical is political: an ethnographic study on the public sphere in the ... Read more
Contents Volume 7 issue 1, single file PDF (8.49 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Movement practice(s) Cal Andrews, Laurence Cox, Lesley Wood (pp. 1 – 7) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 8 issue 1 Open issue (p. 8 ) PDF (EN) Movement practice(s) Apolitical is political: an ethnographic study on the public sphere in the Gezi uprising in Turkey (event note) Balca Arda (pp. 9 – 18) PDF EN Bodies on the streets: gender resistance and collectivity in the Gezi revolts (peer-reviewed article) Ece Canlı and Fatma Umul (pp. 19 – 39) PDF EN Beyond nonhuman animal rights: A grassroots movement in Istanbul and its alignment with other causes (peer-reviewed article) Silvia Ilonka Wolf (pp. 40 – 69) PDF EN Sealfies, seals and celebs: expressions of Inuit resilience in the Twitter era (peer-reviewed article) Kathleen Rodgers and Willow Scobie (pp. 70 – 97) PDF EN Rapid mobilisation of demonstrators in March Australia (event analysis) Steward Jackson and Peter John Chen (pp. 98 – 116) PDF EN Examining mainstream media discourses on the squatters’ movements in Barcelona and London (peer-reviewed article) ETC Dee and G. Debelle dos Santos (pp. 117 – 143) PDF EN World’s first hologram protest in Spain (interview) Lesley Wood and Cristina Flesher Fominaya (pp. 144 – 149) PDF EN Recordar el 15M para reimaginar el presente. Los movimientos sociales en España más allá del ciclo electoral de 2015 (article) Alberto Arribas Lozano (pp. 150 – 164) PDF ES Mass action speed dating: an experiment in making mass actions empowering and effective at Reclaim the Power 2013 and 2014 (action note) Claire de la Lune (pp. 165 – 175) PDF EN Fundraising for direct action and legal defense: a case study of the 2000 RNC protests (practice analysis) Kris Hermes and Ezra Nepon (pp. 176 – 184) PDF EN From marching for change to producing the change: reconstructions of the Italian anti-mafia movement (peer-reviewed article) Christina Jerne (pp. 185 – 214) PDF EN I’m a “good” activist, you’re a “bad” activist, and everything I do is activism: parsing the different types of “activist” identities in LBGTQ organizing (peer-reviewed article) Daniel Cortese (pp. 215 – 246) PDF EN Interconnections between anarchist practices and grassroots struggles (practice note) Tommaso Gravante (pp. 247 – 255) PDF EN Revisiting the master’s toolset: concerning pedagogy, privilege, and the classroom-to-war room pipeline (practice note) Michael Loadenthal (pp. 256 – 262) PDF EN Sans-papiers on their March for Freedom 2014: how refugees and undocumented migrants challenge Fortress Europe (article) Heinz Nigg (pp. 263 – 288) PDF EN General articles Protest in Ireland since the bailout (peer-reviewed article) Mary Naughton (pp. 289 – 308) PDF EN The Irish water war (action note) Rory Hearne (pp. 309 – 321) PDF EN Protest and public relations: the reinvention of the US Army School of the Americas ((peer-reviewed article) Selina Gallo-Cruz (pp. 322 – 350) PDF EN Summer school: Social movements in global perspectives – past, present and future (conference report) Eva Gondorová and Ulf Teichmann (pp. 351 – 363) PDF EN Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 364 – 397) Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox (eds.), Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest. Reviewed by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein JP Clark, The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism. Reviewed by Gerard Gill Peter Dauvergne and Genevieve Lebaron (eds.), Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism. Reviewed by Lika Rodin. Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Giorgios Katsambekis, eds. (2014). Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: The Biopolitics of the Multitude versus the Hegemony of the People. Reviewed by Jamie Matthews Stefania Milan (2013). Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change. Reviewed by A.T. Kingsmith Anna Schober (2013). The Cinema Makers: Public Life and the Exhibition of Difference in South-Eastern and Central Europe since the 1960s. Reviewed by Niamh Mongey Donatella Della Porta and Alice Mattoni, eds. (2014). Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Times of Crisis AND Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzelini (2014). They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy From Greece to Occupy. Reviewed by Nils C. Kumkar List of editorial contacts List of journal participants Cover art photo credit: No Somos Delito. No Somos Delito organised the world’s first hologram protest against the “Ley Mordaza” (Gag Law) restricting citizens’ rights to freedom of assembly, protest, information, and speech in front of Spain’s Parliament . Madrid, April 10, 2015. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 6 issue 2. Movement internationalism(s)
Contents Volume 6 issue 2, single file PDF (11.3 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Movement internationalism/s. Peter Waterman and Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 12) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 7 issue 2 Movements in post/socialisms (pp. 13 – 15) PDF (EN) Movement internationalism(s) International solidarity in social movements (keynote) Cristina Flesher Fominaya (pp. 16 ... Read more
Contents Volume 6 issue 2, single file PDF (11.3 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Movement internationalism/s. Peter Waterman and Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 12) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 7 issue 2 Movements in post/socialisms (pp. 13 – 15) PDF (EN) Movement internationalism(s) International solidarity in social movements (keynote) Cristina Flesher Fominaya (pp. 16 – 25) PDF (EN) Exploring the problems of solidarity (conference report) David Landy, Hilary Darcy, José Gutiérrez (pp. 26 – 34) PDF (EN) The international labour movement in, against and beyond, the globalized and informatized cage of capitalism and bureaucracy (interview) Peter Waterman (pp. 35 – 58) PDF (EN) Alter-mondialisme, alter-syndicalisme? Revue et regard sur l’Australie (peer-reviewed article) Stéphane Le Queux (pp. 59 – 75) PDF (FR) The dynamics of north-south relationships within transnational debt campaigning (peer-reviewed article) Jean Somers (pp. 76 – 102) PDF (EN) Internationalising the campaign for justice in Bhopal: balancing the local, national and transnational (peer-reviewed article) Tomás Mac Sheoin (pp. 103 – 129) PDF (EN) “We don’t get involved in the internal affairs of Palestinians”: Elisions and tensions in North-South solidarity practices (peer-reviewed article) David Landy (pp. 130 – 142) PDF (EN) Conceptualizing solidarity and realizing struggle: testing against the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israel (peer-reviewed article) Sriram Ananth (pp. 143 – 163) PDF (EN) International solidarity in the global justice movement: coping with national and sectoral affinities (peer-reviewed article) Priska Daphi (pp. 164 – 179) PDF (EN) Migrant inclusion organization activity at the supranational level: examining two forms of domestic political opportunity structures (peer-reviewed article) Melissa Schnyder (pp. 180 – 215) PDF (EN) Activist experiences of solidarity work (action note) Mike Aiken, Gregorio Baremblitt, Nicola Bullard, Carine Clément, Ann Deslandes, Sara Koopman, Sander Van Lanen (pp. 216 – 223) PDF (EN) A Spinozist sort of solidarity: from homo-nationalism to queer-internationalism (action note) Ben Trott (pp. 224 – 229) PDF (EN) General articles Nonviolent struggle and its application in new social movements: an interview with Srdja Popović (activist interview) Gloria Novović (pp. 230 – 243) PDF (EN) Planetary destruction, ecofeminists and transformative politics in the early 1980s (peer-reviewed article) Benedikte Zitouni (pp. 244 – 270) PDF (EN) Anxiety, affective struggle and precarity consciousness-raising (peer-reviewed article) Institute for Precarious Consciousness (pp. 271 – 300) PDF (EN) What do you see that I cannot? Peer facilitations of difference and conflict in the collective production of independent youth media (peer-reviewed article) Rachel Kulick (pp. 301 – 327) PDF (EN) Cognitive dimension in cross-movement alliances: the case of squatting and tenants’ movements in Warsaw (peer-reviewed article) Dominika V. Polanska (pp. 328 – 356) PDF (EN) Democratic uprisings and protest politics: a study of the Occupy San Diego social movement (event analysis) Lindsey Lupo (pp. 357 – 370) PDF (EN) Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 371 – 403) Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Social Movements and Globalization: How Protests and Occupations are Changing the World. Reviewed by Catherine Eschle. Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle, Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International. Reviewed by Eurig Scandrett. Francis Dupuis-Déri, Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World. Reviewed by Gary Roth. Íde Corley, Helen Fallon, Laurence Cox, Silence would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Reviewed by Amanda Slevin. B. Keniston, Choosing to be Free: The Life Story of Rick Turner. Reviewed by Richard Pithouse. Dan Hancox, The Village against the World. Reviewed by Kenneth Good. Manfred Steger, James Goodman and Erin Wilson, Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy. Reviewed by Ariel Salleh. Gwendolyn Hall, A black communist in the freedom struggle AND Joshua Bloom & Waldo Martin, Black against empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu List of editorial contacts List of journal participants Cover art This is a photo taken at the Lennon Wall of Hong Kong, during the 2014 protests for democracy. It is based in the occupied area and started with a few post-it notes encouraging the students and participants. It grew rapidly and attracted creative additions to the wall. This photo was taken by Bridget Clancey, a student in Hong Kong, who is also a supporter of the movement and for democratic development of Hong Kong. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Interface volume 6 issue 1. Movement pedagogies
Contents Volume 6 issue 1, single file PDF (10.7 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Reinventing emancipation in the 21st century: the pedagogical practices of social movements. Sara C Motta and Ana Margarida Esteves (pp. 1 – 24) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 7 issue 1 Movement practice(s) (pp. 25 – 26) PDF (EN) The pedagogical ... Read more
Contents Volume 6 issue 1, single file PDF (10.7 MB) ISSN 2009-2431 Editorial Reinventing emancipation in the 21st century: the pedagogical practices of social movements. Sara C Motta and Ana Margarida Esteves (pp. 1 – 24) PDF (EN) Call for papers volume 7 issue 1 Movement practice(s) (pp. 25 – 26) PDF (EN) The pedagogical practices of social movements The thumbless hand, the dog and the chameleon: enriching social movement learning theory through epistemically grounded narratives emerging from a participatory action research case study in Ghana (peer-reviewed article) Jonathan Langdon, Kofi Larweh and Sheena Cameron (pp. 27 – 44) PDF (EN) Práxis educativa do Movimento 21 na resistência ao agronegócio (peer-reviewed article) Sandra Maria Gadelha de Carvalho e José Ernandi Mendes (pp. 45 – 73) PDF (PT) Utopía y pragmatismo. Enseñanza y aprendizaje en una organización urbana popular (peer-reviewed article) Edgar Guerra Blanco (pp. 74 – 98) PDF (ES) Anti-oppression as pedagogy; prefiguration as praxis (peer-reviewed article) Timothy Luchies (pp. 99 – 129) PDF (EN) Climbing the leadership ladder: legitimate peripheral participation in student movements (peer-reviewed article) Joe Curnow (pp. 130 – 155) PDF (EN) Critical cartography as anarchist pedagogy? Ideas for praxis inspired by the 56a infoshop map archive (peer-reviewed article) Rhiannon Firth (pp. 156 – 184) PDF (EN) Professors of our own poverty: intellectual practices of a poor people’s movement in post-apartheid South Africa (peer-reviewed article) Cerianne Robertson (pp. 185 – 210) PDF (EN) Knowledge practices in Abahlali baseMjondolo (peer-reviewed article) Gerard Gill (pp. 211 – 229) PDF (ES) Dis/placing political illiteracy: the politics of intellectual equality in a South African shack-dwellers’ movement (peer-reviewed article) Anna Selmeczi (pp. 230 – 265) PDF (EN) The pedagogy of road blockades (peer-reviewed article) Anne Harley (pp. 266 – 296) PDF (EN) Intervention in lectures as a form of social movement pedagogy and a pedagogical method (peer-reviewed article) Piotr Kowzan, Małgorzata Zielińska and Magdalena Prusinowska (pp. 297 – 326) PDF (EN) Popular Education methodology, activist academics and emergent social movements: Agents for Environmental Justice (action note) Eurig Scandrett (pp. 327 – 334) PDF (EN) “A Masters for activists”: learning from each other’s struggles (action note) Laurence Cox (pp. 335 – 341) PDF (EN) Exit from war: Syrian women learn from the Bosnian women’s movement (article) Cynthia Cockburn (pp. 342 – 362) PDF (EN) Demanding the impossible? An experiment in engaging urban working class youth with radical politics (action note) Ed Lewis and Jacob Mukherjee (pp. 363 – 371) PDF (EN) Mística, meaning and popular education in the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (peer-reviewed article) John L. Hammond (pp. 372 – 391) PDF (EN) Pedagogies of resistance and solidarity: towards revolutionary and decolonial praxis (peer-reviewed article) Nathalia E. Jaramillo and Michelle E. Carreon (pp. 392 – 411) PDF (EN) General articles General Motors is attacking European workers. Is there no resistance? The case of Opel Bochum (action note) Wolfgang Schaumberg (pp. 412 – 415) PDF (EN) Neo-liberal state, austerity, and workers’ resistance in India (peer-reviewed article) Kanchan Sarker (pp. 416 – 440) PDF (EN) The “Al-Muhajiroun” brand of Islamism (peer-reviewed article) Mohammed Ilyas (pp. 441 – 453) PDF (EN) “¡Volveremos! / we will return”: The state of play for the global climate justice movement (event analysis) John Foran (pp. 454 – 477) PDF (EN) Betrayal or realistic expectations? Egyptian women revolting (peer-reviewed article) Reem Wael (pp. 478 – 491) PDF (EN) Reviews Single PDF (EN) (pp. 492 – 514) Stephen Brookfield and John Holst, Radicalizing Learning: Adult Education for a Just World. Reviewed by Maeve O’Grady. Mar Daza, Raphael Hoetmer and Virginia Vargas, Crisis y Movimientos Sociales en Nuestra América: Cuerpos, Territorios e Imaginarios en Disputa. Reviewed by Edgar Guerra Blanco. Srila Roy, New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities. Reviewed by Sara de Jong. David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. Reviewed by Kristen A. Williams. Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley and Eric Shragge (eds.), Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice. Reviewed by Markus Kip. Laurence Cox, Buddhism and Ireland: From the Celts to the Counter-Culture and Beyond. Reviewed by Eilís Ward. List of editorial contacts List of journal participants Cover art The cover photo of this issue was taken in Warsaw, Poland, on November 16 2013. It is an image of the Clown Brigade during the Global Day of Action March, at the COP19 UN Climate Summit. The image was taken by John Foran, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-director of the International Institute of Climate Action and Theory (www.iicat.org). He has an event analysis about the Global Climate Justice movement in this issue. 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. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.