Abstract: Migrants turned activists: Pro-democratic mobilisation amongst Russian migrants in Denmark and NorwayThis article explores how emotions group solidarity influence collective action. Through case study of migrants’ engagement pro-democratic transnational activism Norway, this contributes to our understanding their role mobilising demobilising The is based on ethnographic research mater...

This article examines the diversity of tactical interventions that transpired at Whitney Museum American Art in 2019, culminating resignation vice-chairman its Board Trustees. Instead accepting myth museum neutrality, activist campaign, spearheaded by action-oriented movement Decolonize Place, treated as a site ideological struggle, permeated inner divisions and conflicting interests. Through t...

In contradistinction to Anglophone criticism's airbrushing of all things Egyptian/Arab from the iconic image C. P. Cavafy, this essay dwells on poet as an Egyptiote. An Egyptiote orientation, it is argued, variously informs given poems and prose texts in his later years. Probing Cavafy's knowledge Arabic, demonstrates affinities solidarities with Egyptians under colonial duress witnessed choice...

Algorithms are seen as effective for managing workers. Literature focuses mainly on the functioning and impact of algorithmic control workers' experiences conditions. The ways in which platform workers have organised collectively to regain received far less scholarly attention. This paper addresses this gap by making sense mobilisation dynamics two platform-work categories: crowdwork (Amazon Me...

Abstract This paper revisits the 1981 People's March for Jobs as a moment of unemployed activism and solidarity in UK. The argues that march revealed spatial politics characterised through mobility, presence, imaginaries dialogue. It considers how emerged trade union organising forged political alliances articulating opposition against rising unemployment, challenging associated stigma around l...

This paper revisits the histories of Unemployed Workers’ Centres to consider politicisation unemployment in UK. Drawing upon archive material and over 50 oral histories, it considers emergence centres as a response crisis increasing retrenchment welfare state. The indicates how Asef Bayat’s concept “non-movement” proves useful for capturing wider sphere labour organising, moving beyond more con...

Web 2.0 facilitates the articulation of transcultural solidarities between Armenian, Assyrian, Greek and Kurdish social media users. This has led to a growing trend for some users apologise complicity in Ottoman crimes, most notably Armenian Genocide. These post-Ottoman layer different times places, creating digital palimpsests where fantasies about place can be constructed, but that remain con...