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Autonomous Politics and its Problems
My aim in this article is to present some hypotheses on issues of strategy for anti-capitalist emancipatory movements. The idea is to rethink the conditions for an effective politics, with the capacity to radically change the society we live in. … Continue reading
¿Quién nos devolverá la vida pública, los bienes públicos, que nos están robando?
Leer Hay que buscar las razones de la degeneración intelectual de parte de la clase política. Es un deber de la sociedad descubrir las razones ocultas de las privatizaciones. ¿Cómo recuperaremos lo que hemos perdido? El verdadero sustento de la … Continue reading
Posted in Política, Political economy, Political power, Political protests, Politics
Tagged política, political power, politics
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11 Things You Can Do to Help the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
Read The people protesting on Wall Street are fighting for the unemployed, the uninsured, and those totally insecure in the face of ever increasing financial inequities. These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us. Those who are unemployed, … Continue reading
Posted in Movimientos sociales, Politics, Social awareness, Social movements, US
Tagged movimientos sociales, politics, social movements
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Direct Action: An Ethnography
Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass … Continue reading
Imperiled Revolutions
The Arab Spring was marked by spontaneous revolts, lack of charismatic leaders, youthful exuberance, and disdain for more traditional forms of organizational discipline. That is what made these revolutions so appealing. Institutional obstacles to democracy, however, require institutional responses: speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Revolution, Social change, Social movements
Tagged revolution, social change, social movements
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Mob rule: Iceland crowdsources its next constitution
Read Country recovering from collapse of its banks and government is using social media to get citizens to share their ideas. It is not the way the scribes of yore would have done it but Iceland is tearing up the … Continue reading
Posted in Participatory methods, Politics, Social media
Tagged e-participation, participation, politics, social media
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It’s Not Just Indignation: Inventing new ways of doing politics
It’s true that we’re indignant. But not just that. If it were just indignation that brought us together in the streets and squares of our cities, the movement would have less force. Once the moment of excitement had passed we … Continue reading
The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life
A gripping account of European autonomous social movements from 1968 to the present. Since the modern anti-globalization movement kicked off with the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, a new generation has been engaging in anti-capitalist direct action. Its aims, politics, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Social innovation, Social movements
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The governance of problems: puzzling, powering, participation
Read Policy analysis usually gives more attention to problem solving than problem finding and there is a real threat of mismatch between problem perceptions by citizens and problem definition by their elected and appointed policy makers. Contemporary democracies need to … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Governance, Participation, Politics, Problem solving
Tagged governance, power, problem finding, problem solving, problems, public policy
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Read Throughout history civilization has been shaped by war. Now, after a century of unprecedented devastation, it seems humankind is preparing to embark on another cycle of violence. Are we condemned to be in a state of perpetual warfare? In … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Change, Change methods, Politics, Power
Tagged nonviolence, people, power
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