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…
International Times Archives – Voice of the British underground
The International Times, or IT as it was known, was an underground newspaper launched in London in…
Political Cartoons – Why killing the canary doesn’t save the miner
Outrage over offensive political cartoons is a curious reaction to a medium incapable of instigating violence or…
African Student Movements and (Non) Violence – Call for papers
Call for papers – The 2016 African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) biennial conference will be…
Call for Papers – Mnemonics 2016: Forgetting, Denial, Repression
The fifth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will take place from June 2-4, 2016 on the campus…
Call for papers and panels – War, spatial and temporal logics of violence (Stockholm, June 2016)
A call for papers and panels on War, spatial and temporal logics of violence within the framework…
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