Revolt

The revolt of youth: some historical comparisons.

The existence of a youth problem appears to many a phenomenon peculiarly characteristic of our own time. In fact, in the United States over the past fifty years almost each generation has produced distinctive young rebels-the bohemians before and after World War I, the radicals of the thirties and forties, the beatniks and hipsters of the fifties, and the hippies and romantic anarcho-marxists o...

The United Democratic Front and Township Revolt ^ South Africa

Recent years have witnessed the revival of organised mass opposition to Apartheid. Fighting in the townships, labour unrest, classroom revolts, rent strikes, consumer boycotts, worker stayaways and guerilla warfare all these have become familiar features of South Africa's political landscape since 1976. From the inception of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983, though, radical black oppos...

Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion, and Political Power

Thwarting ‘The Great Patent Revolt’ in your Engineering Organizations

www.fenwick.com When a patent practitioner reads an article calling on engineers to stage a patent strike within their organizations, alarm is the natural reaction. For inhouse counsel, such articles and sentiments (which I have found to be rather prevalent) make filing patents a tough sell to engineers. The following are some tips for in-house counsel to encourage engineers to engage in the pa...

Fortress UK? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time-space trajectories of segregation

Residential development segregated by physical boundaries and gates has proved popular in the US and South Africa where fear of crime and freedom of choice are appealed to as legitimating factors in their proliferation. In the UK there is anecdotal evidence that such ‘gated communities’ are growing in popularity. The paper has two key themes. First, a diagnosis of the location and prevalence of...