Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern Venice

The State and Contentious Politics:

“I was invited by Isa to his house to have lunch with his mother and siblings. ‘My sisters will love you. You are a good role model for them. I want them to study, like you,” he said to me to convince me to go to the lunch. His father was disappeared by the security forces in 1992 when Isa was 14 years old and his youngest brother was just couple of months old, and his family was forced by the ...

Papering over the Cracks

An important article by Ben Fine and Laurence Harris entitled 'Controversial Issues in Marxist Economic Theory' appeared in the last Socialist Register. I t has an integrated structure and is free from the Fundamentalist habit of settling debates by quoting huge chunks of Marx, in appeal to divine authority. For these and other reasons it cannot simply be brushed aside. It demands a reply, both...

Papering over the Cracks

Beyond the limelight of teaching hospitals, the psychiatric profession is in a state of near-collapse. A lack of resources and man-power is resulting in an incomplete service which is unfair to patients and demoralising for doctors-the situation needs salvaging, and soon.

Global, conventional and warring movements and the suppression of contention. Themes in contentious politics research

Contentious events often come in waves, but they are seldom homogeneous. A series of contentious events over the past two years were the result of the global financial crisis that began in the United States in 2008 and ultimately diffused around the world. But it was in Greece and the European Union that the crisis hit hardest. There, conventional protest, violence, and political contention com...

Disability protests: contentious politics, 1970-1999