Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox
On June the 5th, it will be exactly three years since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote…
Prevention, repression and radicalisation in France: an interview with Laurent Mucchielli
Laurent Mucchielli is a sociologist and senior researcher at the CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre, Paris), attached…
Denaturalisation, ‘Terrorism’ and National Identity in France
Hannah Arendt once stated that we might “measure the degree of totalitarian infection by the extent to…
Brussels attacks and the Law of unintended consequences
On March 22, 2016 Brussels has been targeted and no less than 32 persons died in coordinated…
Researching Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies (2015) by Tellidis and Toros
Ioannis Tellidis and Harmonie Toros edited volume Researching Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies (Routledge, London 2015) aims…
Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (2014) by Sedlmaier
In Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (2014, University of Michigan Press) Alexander Sedlmaier…
Freedom for Tooting! Self-professed urban guerrilla in a 1970s BBC sitcom
“Citizen Smith” is one of these extraordinary 1970s British sitcoms that one should rediscover. Thanks to the…
Manchester Peace Lecture 2016 – How to topple tyranny by Srdja Popovic
Join the University of Manchester’s Politics department for an afternoon with one of the world’s renowned nonviolent…
Activist tribulations – Call for papers – Lille (France) December 12-13, 2016
While the sociology of participation abounds in works which have become classics on the “triggers” of activism,…
Digital Extremism? Frisking Terror in Video Games
Extremism and terrorism have infected popular culture in recent years. Television and film heavily feature often one-dimensional…
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