The season of revolution: the Arab Spring and European mobilizations
The season of revolution:
the Arab Spring
and European mobilizations
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Current call for papers:
Struggles, strategies and analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial movements
(deadline November 2012)
Interface journalist facing charges in Egypt
See the Interface statement here on the charges facing Austin Mackell, Ailya Alwi and others in relation to their research in Egypt.
Prize-winning Interface article
Congratulations to Peter Ullrich and Gina Wollinger, who won a German Surveillance Studies Network prize for their article in Interface 3/1, “A surveillance studies perspective on protest policing: the case of video surveillance of demonstrations in Germany“.
More details here (in English) and here (auf deutsch).
Interface: the first four years
Interface: a journal for and about social movements is now into its fourth year and working on its eigth issue (with two more years of discussion and planning before that!) Over this time we’ve brought together people researching and theorising movements to contribute to the production of knowledge that can help us learn from each other’s struggles: across languages, continents and cultures, across movements and issues, across the academic / activist divide, and across political and intellectual traditions.
We’ve brought out issues on movement knowledge, on the relationship between civil society and social movements, on crisis and revolutionary transformations, on movements and alternative media, on repression, on feminism and women’s movements and on the Arab Spring. New issues are in process on new struggles around work and on anti-colonial and postcolonial movements. Alongside these themes, special sections have focussed on debating David Harvey, on international labour communication and on feminist strategies for change, with a forthcoming special section on the new European mobilizations. Each issue also includes many pieces on topics beyond these special themes.
So far, we’ve published activist interviews, testimonies, editorials, articles, action notes, research notes, event analyses, key documents, debates, bibliographies, round tables, book reviews and review essays by authors located in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Dubai, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the UAE, the USA and Venezuela.
We have already published in Catalan, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. Beyond these we can accept material in Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latvian, Maltese, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. We hope to expand to include more world languages in future. In the meantime, you can see where people are reading us from here.
A world still to win
We are still working on many fronts – developing the project in different regions of the world, expanding the range of languages used, extending the collective production of the journal, finding appropriate ways of linking the journal to movement needs and processes, ensuring the quality of what we publish and securing intellectual and academic recognition. We have done a lot in the past five years, but there is a lot to do.
This new website is designed to be part of this process, keeping our orientation as an open-access (free) space for dialogue and involving a wider community of movement practitioners and activist scholars as authors, referees for articles, book reviewers, issue editors, translators, website editors, and other supporters. Participants with particular skills / interests are always welcome!
We hope you enjoy the new site, and that the material here is helpful to you in reflection on your own struggles, developing your activist practice, researching social movements constructively, debate within organisations and dialogue between movements. There is a world still to win.
Disclaimer
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.
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