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The past decade has shown a strong connection between political protests and the looting of foreign-owned shops in South Africa. Research shows that local leaders use protests to maintain their power.
Forty years after the students uprisings of 1976, South Africa is again in the midst of a political movement led by students.They have changed the tenor and shape of political discussion around education.
Grassroots protesters are questioning the logic of export-led ‘growth’ and renewed fiscal austerity pushed through the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. They want policies that meet their basic needs.
A brisk ten-minute walk from where I currently live gets me to Place de la République. Before you get there these days you will see large numbers of gendarmes in riot gear, hear the sounds of a largish…
Anti-rape protests at a South African university have far bigger implications for the country’s ongoing fight against rape culture and patriarchal gender norms.
Proposed labour reforms in France have sparked mass protests led by young people who want to reclaim democracy from the elite.
Online activism now means creating alternative ways to work, communicate and protest.
It isn’t just the ‘bad guys’ who are exposed to restrictive powers and tougher penalties. Anyone whose behaviour is regarded as a public safety risk is potentially in the frame.
There are two concepts in education theory – the social construction of knowledge and the notion of self-efficacy for development –- that could help build a true democracy.
The heavy-handed tactics used by Uganda’s authorities during the 2016 elections have raised questions about a return to an oppressive past.
Protesters could be tempted to add ‘criminal damage’ to trespass, thereby ensuring a more sympathetic trial by jury.
A short tour of Australia’s protest song history shows that protest music didn’t so much disappear as morph from the mainstream. In other words, it’s still very much with us.
The advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994 is often hailed as peaceful and smooth. But, there are lingering problems. Dissent over unmet expectations has resulted in an increase in protests.
Environmental campaigners have employed an argument that they were forced into ‘illegal’ action but judges are still not buying it.
There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
The global activist escapades that make up the Climate Games remind us that climate politics isn’t just confined to the United Nations summit in Paris.
Victoria has had a huge victory for the rights of women to exercise their choice to access a legal medical service free of intimidation and harassment.
Thousands will take to the streets across the world ahead of the Paris climate summit - but how much difference have the past 25 years of climate marches made?
I taught at Mizzou from 1996 to 2008. Here’s why the events don’t surprise me.
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Reader in Political Sociology, Aston University
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Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Politics, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Journalism, Radio and Communication, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Director, Tas Law Reform Institue / Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rhodes University
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
