You work on protest, social movements, utopia and ideology? Consider submitting your paper to the great AFPP conference to Movements@Manchester at Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social

EVENT: ✊🏾How do revolutions change everyday lives and practices? - Prof Asef Bayat 📆 4-5.30pm, 28 Feb 2024, Manchester Organised by Movements@Manchester w. Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social & Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social …ution-everyday-lives.eventbrite.co.uk

Reminder: CfP for Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social still open. Conference 17-19th June; abstract deadline 23rd Feb movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp-2024-call…

EVENT: ✊🏾How do revolutions change everyday lives and practices? - Prof Asef Bayat 📆 4-5.30pm, 28 Feb 2024, Manchester Organised by Movements@Manchester w. Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social & Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social Social Movement Studies Journal (SPECIAL ISSUE 📌) @UoMPolitics UoM School of Social Sciences Kevin Gillan @meghanetinsley …ution-everyday-lives.eventbrite.co.uk

Final call for abstract submissions for Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference. Deadline 23rd Feb. Info: movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp-2024-call… Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social

Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference registration now open to non-presenters. All welcome. 17-19th June Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social Details: movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/afpp-2024…

Coming soon (17th June), an open roundtable on social movement strategies and outcomes, journalist Vincent Bevins in conversation with leading movement scholars. All welcome Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social movements.manchester.ac.uk/2024/06/12/str… UoM School of Social Sciences

REMINDER: Special Issue: Imagined Futures in Social Movements: Collective Action, Prefiguration, and Temporalities OUT NOW (timely because we need an alternative future presto) Thread on our timeline with all the details tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/cur…

For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. Global Marxism has much to teach us, discover its potential for the future at our upcoming online panel discussion event: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/global-… #Marxism

Join us for the launch of Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics by Simin Fadaee, on October 16th in #Manchester. In conversation with Kevin Gillan at BlackwellsManchester. Tickets on sale now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-marxi…… Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social Movements@Manchester #Marxism #booklaunch

So pleased to have been awarded ‘Research Staff of the Year’ The University of Manchester Humanities Research - a lovely start to the academic year

Event announcement: Book launch for Simin Fadaee's impressive new book, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics. 6.30pm 16th Oct BlackwellsManchester Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social Details: movements.manchester.ac.uk/2024/09/20/glo…

movement@manchester's Simin Fadaee will be discussing global marxism in this Manchester University Press webinar. Fabulous panel including @CDinerstein @katerhardy and Helen Yaffe manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/global-… Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social

Reminder: tickets still available for Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan on Global Marxism: decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics BlackwellsManchester 6.30pm 16th Oct. Info: movements.manchester.ac.uk/2024/09/20/glo… Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social

The University of Manchester Kevin Gillan Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social Movements@Manchester BlackwellsManchester “Marxism isn’t just about theory, it’s about action.” Simin talks about revolutionary leaders with the idea of liberation or freedom and combining this with strategy and tactics, and trustworthiness, to win in their various struggles. Without this movements lose cohesion & fail.

AFPP2025, international social movements conference Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social is taking place 16-18th June. CfP out now, submission deadline 18th December. Get those abstracts in folks... movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/afpp-2025…

Worth a read: this short interview with Geoffrey Pleyers (ISA President and AFPP stalwart) on global sociology in times of polycrisis globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/globa…

📚PLATFORM POLITICS: Luke Yates in Conversation 📅 When? Wed, Dec 4, 6:30 PM 📍 Where? Blackwell’s, 146 Oxford Rd, Manchester Exploring Uber & Airbnb, their regulatory tactics, and the future of platform economies. Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk #BlackwellsEvents

📢 AFPP 2025: Conference Registration Closing Soon! Deadline: April 14th, 2025 Join us in Manchester for the 30th Edition of Alternative Futures and Popular Protest! To register: tinyurl.com/yc2pywuk (£50+£4.88 fee) 📅 June 16-18 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/jjs664wb #AFPP2025