This article examines some arguments in favor of taking peace as a political obligation that can be found in one of the most important founders of the pacifist movement, Jane Addams. The main focus is on her 1907 book Newer Ideals of Peace, which has often been read as idealistic and outdated, and above all, as more of an activist’s manifesto than a serious contribution to either political phil...

The growth of social networking sites (SNS), like Facebook, has caused many to rethink how we understand political activism and citizen engagement. In 2010, 43% of Internet users reported using social networking sites " several times a day, " a sizeable increase from 2009 where only 34% reported using social networking at the same rate (Pew 2010). Research on digital activism has emphasized the...

This paper’s reading of a specific cultural artifact to emerge from children’s climate activism in contemporary Australia enacts an argument that children themselves can be seen redefining childhood and futurity through their demonstrates how placards are evidence this. It argues we as critical scholars follow lead by uncovering the discourses underpin activist slogans. In doing so, set about c...

It is a commonplace in American political discourse that socialists are statists, zealous to resolve society’s ills through the intervention of activist government. To nineteenth-century European labor militant, however, this might come as surprise. The state, he saw it, was not there lend helping hand but repress, and gendarme military man, social worker, were its emblematic agents. Late twent...