The article explores the Freirian theory of social change underpinning health-related community mobilisation in poor and marginalised communities. Highlighting potential shortcomings of its essentialist understandings of power and identity, and linear notions of change, it examines how lessons from the ‘new left’, and burgeoning global protest movements, can rejuvenate the field given the growi...

The article analyses learning related to experiencing violence in social actions and movements. Activists may experience physical abuse from individuals organised entities such as the police, both accidentally a form of intentional repression. Applying movement approach analysis individual experience, collective responses violence, preparations for eventuality its occurrence allowed us identify...

Social media as the prominent phenomenon of digital culture has become infrastructure for social and political movements. Digital platforms such Facebook Twitter have practical tools movements, especially communicating, organizing, gaining wider publicity. However, a more careful study shows that activism on can only an impactful socio-political movement if it meets requirements contemporary cu...