Interface: a journal for and about social movements

Interface: a journal for and about social movements is an open access

Open access

Open access refers to unrestricted access via the Internet to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs....

academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

that publishes original research and academic reviews of books concerned mainly with sociological

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

research on protests, social movements, and collective behavior

Collective behavior

The expression collective behaviour was first used by Robert E. Park, and employed definitively by Herbert Blumer, to refer to social processes and events which do not reflect existing social structure , but which emerge in a "spontaneous" way.Collective behavior might also be defined as action...

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One of the distinguishing features of Interface is that it attempts to engage not only social movement scholars, but also the activists themselves. The journal came out of discussions between activist researchers at the annual "Alternative Futures and Popular Protest" conference on social movements, and more broadly out of the interactions between movements and the rise of engaged social movement scholarship in the context of the anti-capitalist movement

Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or...

. One of only four English-language journals devoted to social movements, it is the only one to understand itself in terms of activist knowledge

Activist knowledge

'Activist knowledge' or 'dissident knowledge', refers to the ideological and ideational aspects of social movements such as challenging or reformulating dominant political ideas and ideologies, and developing new concepts, thoughts and meanings through the contentional interactions with social,...

and as a practitioner rather than purely academic journal.

The journal has multiple editors whom are responsible for different world regions, and is multilingual: to date articles have been published in 6 different languages. The journal was established in 2009 and themes covered to date include movement knowledge, civil society

Civil society

Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...

, revolutions, alternative media

Alternative media

Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...

, and repression

Political repression

Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take political life of society....

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Notable people whom have been published in Interface include African intellectual Michael Neocosmos

Michael Neocosmos

Michael Neocosmos, is an author, translator and Professor and Director of Global Movements Research at Monash University, in Johannesburg South Africa. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape....

, South African shanty-town activist S'bu Zikode

S'bu Zikode

Sibusiso Innocent Zikode is the president of the South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. According to the Mail & Guardian "Under his stewardship, ABM has made steady gains for housing rights." -Biography:...

, Thai political scientist and activist Giles Ji Ungpakorn, sociologist and animal rights activist Roger Yates

Roger Yates

Roger Yates is a lecturer in sociology at University College Dublin and the University of Wales, specializing in animal rights...

, Black Panther

Black panther

A black panther is typically a melanistic color variant of any of several species of larger cat. Wild black panthers in Latin America are black jaguars , in Asia and Africa they are black leopards , and in North America they may be black jaguars or possibly black cougars A black panther is...

and anarchist Ashanti Alston

Ashanti Alston

Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. Even though the party no longer exists, Alston sometimes refers to himself as a Black Panther, and sometimes as "the @narchist Panther", a term he coined in his @narchist Panther Zine...

, British historian and activist John Charlton

John Charlton (historian)

John Charlton , is a British historian working in the Marxist tradition. He was a founding member of the Newcastle Branch of the International Socialists and has been a member of the IS and Socialist Workers Party in York, Leeds, and from 1996 Newcastle, where he now lives.He was educated at...

, British sociologist and activist Colin Barker

Colin Barker

Colin Barker is a British sociologist as well as a Marxist historian and writer. A long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party in Manchester, he is the author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, including a history of the Polish trade union Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed.A...

, Dublin Community Television

Dublin Community Television

Dublin Community Television is a community access TV Station on UPC Ireland channel 802, broadcasting programmes made by, about and for Dublin communities. DCTV is Ireland's only democratically-controlled TV channel. Its logo asserts that it encourages diversity, empowerment, and participation...

founder Margaret Gillan, Bil'in

Bil'in

Bil'in is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, west of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Bil'in has a population of 1,800, mostly Muslims.-History:...

protest leader Iyad Burnat, and labour organiser Eric Lee

Eric Lee (labour organizer)

Eric Lee is an American-born trade unionist, writer, and web site developer. He is the founding editor of LabourStart, an online news service for the trade union movemement...

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