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Mobilized Investigation, 03.02.2003 16:42 This part of the site is intended to collect, display, and archive the work of engaged social investigators. Feel free to post the work of others, with permission. Even URLS to articles located elsewhere are welcome. Every article posted will be followed by a space for comments and discussion. To publish a work on the site click here. Read more >>
'We are heartbroken and furious!'
Sian Sullivan, 24.03.2004 11:23 An attempt to figure out my thoughts/feelings re: depression, anger and violence in protest politics ... Comments, rants, general reality checks all welcome :-) Read more >>
Barcelona social movements meeting, Jan 04
Sian Sullivan, 24.03.2004 11:19 
A short piece summarising one participant's thoughts and experiences in relation to the first international conference on Social Movements and Activist Research, held in Barcelona, Jan 2004.
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[pictures] Research Activism BCN-Conference
vlo, 03.03.2004 07:12 
A picture report and links to more information for the "first International Conference on Social Movements and Research" (Jornades Internacionals Moviments Social i Recerca), held at the end of January 2004 in Barcelona. It brought two hundred participants from various places together, all over the world, who are doing activist research or are interested into it.
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Dying to fight
Peter Dwyer, 16.09.2003 05:53
A short 1500 word article about the second ever national congress of the Treatment Action Campaign movement in South Africa.
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for a self-governing European university
SapienzaPirata_Rome, 22.04.2003 02:15 Call for an EU-free and self-governing European university by SapienzaPirata_Rome Read more >>
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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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. Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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) Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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. Read more >>
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.... Read more >> |