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Interface: a journal for and about social movements
Volume two, issue one:
Crises, social movements and revolutionary
transformations
The third 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
on the special theme of ‘Crisis, Social Movements and Revolutionary
Transformations’.
Interface is open-access, global and programmatically
multilingual. 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 28 pieces. There are a number of
writings on the theme and other
peer-reviewed
articles:
· John Charlton,
"Another world was possible"? Anti-capitalism in the year
2000
· Colin Barker,
Crises
and turning points in revolutionary development:
emotion, organization and strategy in Solidarnosc, 1980
· Kirk Helliker,
The
state of emancipation: with, within, without?
· Samuel R Friedman,
Sociopolitical and philosophical questions of organization in making a
human society
· Jean Bridgeman,
A
matter of trust: the politics of working-class self-education
· Alfredo Duarte Corte,
Pensar las luchas autónomas como potencia, pensar la autonomía como
categoria abierta (Autonomous struggles as power; autonomy as an open
category)
· Peter Waterman,
Labour at
the 2009 Belém World Social Forum: between an ambiguous past and an
uncertain future
A special section dialogue is devoted to David Harvey’s
essay
Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition, with
responses from six writers: Willie Baptist, AK Thompson, Benjamin
Shepard, Laurence Cox, Anna Selmeczi, Marcelo Lopez de Souza
Action notes and event analysis from:
· Anne Elizabeth Moore on
The outdoor games of the 2009 Winter Unlympiad at Washington Park
· Maria Kyriakidou on
"Another world is possible as long as it is feminist too":
dissenting acts and discourses by Greek leftist feminists
· Beth Gonzalez and Walda
Katz-Fishman on
New openings for movement and consciousness in the
US.
Key documents: Producción colectiva,
En boca de todos:
apuntes para divulgar historia (Everyone's talking about it: notes on
disseminating history)
This issue’s
reviews includes the following titles:
·
The will of the many: how
the alterglobalisation movement is changing the face of democracy
·
Chains of Babylon: the
rise of Asian America
·
Rise of the Ku Klux
Klan: right-wing movements and national politics
·
Zones of proletarian
development
·
Black flame: the
revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism
·
Contesting patriotism:
culture, power and strategy in the peace movement
·
Networking futures:
the movements against corporate globalization
A
call for papers for issue five (Vol 3/Issue 1) of
Interface is now open, on the theme of ‘Repression and Social
Movements (deadline November 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://interface-articles.googlegroups.com/web/3%20-%20CFP%205.pdf
.
Issue 4 on ‘Voices of dissent: activists' engagements in the creation of
alternative, autonomous, radical and independent media is due to be
released in November 2010.
Interface is keen to find IT collaborators who can help us make
our 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 details please see:
http://www.interfacejournal.net/2008/03/editorial-contacts.html.
Please forward this to anyone you think may be interested.
Interface: ISSN 2009 – 2431