The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these was presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. also inspired other sit-ins across country, including several Delhi. Yet, nowhere except did struggle last as long, with participation many over a continuous significant period time. This artic...

This essay examines the activism and scholarship of two South African sociologists Studies professors, Bernard Magubane Anthony Ngubo during their time as graduate students at UCLA in 1960s. Focusing on Ngubo, I argue that migrant from Southern Africa used research protest politics to contest postwar racial liberal ideology dominated studies sectors civil rights anti-apartheid movements Califor...

Australia, along with nation-states internationally, has entered a new phase of environmentally focused activism, globalised, coordinated and social media–enabled environmental movements seeking to address human-induced climate change related issues such as the mass extinction species land clearing. Some protest groups Extinction Rebellion (XR) have attracted significant political, media popula...

The EU last month announced its allowable quotas for various species within its waters for this coming year that fishermen will be able to land and sell. The aim behind the quotas is to limit fishing in an effort to preserve stocks at sustainable levels, but the policy is being shown increasingly to be damaging many stocks, caught by fishermen pursuing one species but catching others, which oft...

In The Practice of Everyday Life, de Certeau likens himself to a Solar Eye reading the city spread out like a text below. He compares this all-seeing position to the enmeshed position of those whose intermingled footsteps pass through the city streets, writing stories that deliberately elude legibility. These two ways of experiencing the city offer a theoretical frame through which I will explo...

Recent narratives of the civil rights movement document black veterans’ contributions to the movement’s success, often attributing their efforts to their military experience. While this attribution makes sense intuitively, alternative explanations for black veterans’ mobilization are not fully explored in existing work. For instance, black veterans were often among the most active members in ma...