Introduction neither resistant nor normative. Rather, it needs to be understood as open to
being a source of potential for the production of change, for maintaining things apparently as …

Recently protest camps have emerged around the world as a highly visible form of protest.
Part and parcel of new social movement activism for over 40 years, they are important sites …

This article aims to broaden and deepen debates on the everyday practices of autonomous
activists. To do this we present three main research findings from a recent research project …

Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and
interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and …

Abstract Sociologists Darcy Leach and Sebastian Haunss coined the term “social movement
scene” to refer to people “who share a common identity and a common set of subcultural or …

From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca,
protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world …

The transition from fast spontaneous urbanisation in southern Europe, with popular
squatting as a form of civil disobedience, to 'new social movements'(NSMs) for democratic …

Have slums become'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as
they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum …

As part of the global 'rights to the city'movement and mounting concern over food waste,
results are presented here of an ethnographic study of young people in Australia who …

Urban regeneration projects have become a focus of attention in Istanbul due to tourism
promotion, particularly great expectations from the European Capital of Culture 2010 Event …