Human rights discourse is central for the work of international social movements. Viewing human rights as a context-dependent and socially constructed discourse, this article investigates how it is used by a specific social movement – Israel-critical diaspora Jewish activists – and argues that it can simultaneously challenge and reproduce existing practices of domination. The article applies co...

The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance against war. Liberal cosmopolitans characterise the movement as a consensual force of opposition against war in the form of global civil society acting on the basis of ‘universal’ values. Radical poststructuralists consider it a preliminary example of the Multitude, waging ‘a war again...

political conflict in the late twentieth century. Demands for ‘recognition of difference’ fuel struggles of groups mobilized under the banners of nationality, ethnicity, ‘race’, gender, and sexuality. In these ‘post-socialist’ conflicts, group identity supplants class interest as the chief medium of political mobilization. Cultural domination supplants exploitation as the fundamental injustice....

The Pashtun belt, encompassing chiefly Eastern Afghanistan and North Western Pakistan, has been, and continues to be, the center of religio-political activity. This article aims at examining these activities in its historical perspectives and has focused on one of the earliest known Movements that sprouted in the region. The first known indigenous religio-political movement of high magnitude st...

In this article, I address the ways in which debates liberal, (post)Marxist and postmodernist social theory have remoulded readings of emancipation – how these reformulations affected organisation emancipatory struggles by political parties movements. focus on three conceptual ambiguities that spurred theoretical disputes restructured organisational imaginations emancipation: who might struggle...

The present research examined the perspectives of both White and Black racial justice activists on roles allies in struggle for people United States. Study 1 used Q methodology, a mixed-methods approach, which identified four distinct about role from sample (33 22 Americans): (1) mobilize to support leadership, (2) interpersonal activism, (3) avoid dominating people's efforts, (4) lifelong lear...