- apologies for crossposting -
*/Interface: a journal for and about social movements
/Issue two: "civil society vs social movements"
*The second issue of /Interface/, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and
refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement
researchers, is now available at www.interfacejournal.net
<http://www.interfacejournal.net/> on the special theme of "civil
society vs social movements": the different relationships between
movements, NGOs and other forms of organising.
/Interface/ is open-access, global (with articles from South Africa,
Brazil, Thailand, Angola, Central and Eastern Europe, the USA and
western Europe in this issue) and programmatically multilingual (this
issue has pieces in 4 languages). Our overall aim is to "learn from each
other's struggles": to develop a dialogue between researchers and
practitioners, but also between different social movements, intellectual
traditions and national contexts.
This issue of Interface includes 19 pieces and 357 pages, including
- Activist interview with S'bu Zikode (Abahlali baseMjondolo)
- Peer-reviewed articles: Michael Punch on community organising in
Dublin, Beppe de Sario on grassroots voluntary activism in post-1977
Turin, Prado, Machado and Carmona on LGBTQ struggles in Brazil, Grzegorz
Piotrowski on civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, Jenny Payne
on feminist media and Piotr Konieczyny on Wikipedia as social movement
- Action notes: Giles Ungpakorn on the collusion of Thai NGOs with
royalism, Carlos Figueiredo on Angolan civil society, Christof Mackinger
on the criminalisation of animal rights activism and Anja Eickelberg on
educational campaigns in Brazil
- Key documents: Peter Waterman on global labour organising and Michael
Neocosmos on rethinking militancy in Africa
- Reviews of Incite! Women of color against violence, /The revolution
will not be funded; /Heidi Swarts, /Organizing urban America;/ Anna
Schober, /Ironie, Montage und Verfremdung; /and GL Francione, /Animals
as persons./
Interface is keen to find IT collaborators who can help us make the site
more useful and accessible to movement activists, and translators to
support our multilingual project; for more details see .
http://www.interfacejournal.net/2009/01/looking-for-it-activist-allies.html
. We are also looking for activists or academics interested in helping
out, particularly with our African, Arab world, South Asian,
Spanish-speaking Latin American, East and Central European, and Oceania
/ SE Asian groups. For more details please see
http://www.interfacejournal.net/2008/03/editorial-contacts.html.
A call for papers for issue three is now open, on the theme of "crises,
social movements and revolutionary transformations" (deadline January 1
2010). We can review and publish articles in Afrikaans, Catalan,
Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish,
Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. Full details at
http://www.interfacejournal.net/2009/08/call-for-papers-issue-3-crises-social.html
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