Interface issue 2: civil society vs social movements Interface: a journal for and about social movements Volume 1 number 2 (November 2009) ISSN 2009 2431 Table of contents (i v) Editorial Ana Margarida Esteves, Sara Motta, Laurence Cox, Civil society versus social movements (pp. 1 21) Activist interview Richard Pithouse, To resist all degradations and divisions: an interview with S'bu Zikode (pp. 22 47) Articles Nora McKeon, Who speaks for peasants? Civil society, social movements and the global governance of food and agriculture (pp. 48 82) Michael Punch, Contested urban environments: perspectives on the place and meaning of community action in central Dublin, Ireland (pp. 83 107) i
Beppe de Sario, "Lo sai che non si esce vivi dagli anni ottanta?" Esperienze attiviste tra movimento e associazionismo di base nell'italia post-77 (pp. 108-133) ("You do realise that nobody will get out of the eighties alive?" Activist experiences between social movement and grassroots voluntary work in Italy after 1977) Marco Prado, Federico Machado, Andrea Carmona, A luta pela formalização e tradução da igualdade nas fronteiras indefinidas do estado contemporâneo: radicalização e / ou neutralização do conflito democrático? (The struggle to formalise and translate equality within the undefined boundaries of the contemporary state: radicalization or neutralization of democratic conflict?) (pp. 134 165) Grzegorz Piotrowski, Civil and / or "uncivil" society? The development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of political transformation during the postsocialist period (pp. 166 189) Jenny Gunnarsson Payne, Feminist media as alternative media: a literature review (pp. 190 211) Piotr Konieczny, Wikipedia: community or social movement? (pp. 212 232) Action / teaching / research notes Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Why have most Thai NGOs chosen to side with the conservative royalists, against democracy and against the poor? (pp. 233 237) ii
Carlos Figueiredo, O engajamento da sociedade civil angolana na discussão da constituição ("The involvement of Angolan civil society in debating the new constitution".) (pp. 238 243) Christof Mackinger, AETA, 278a und Verschwörung zur... Organisationsparagraphen zur Zerschlagung tierbefreierischen Aktivismus ("AETA, paragraph 278 and conspiracy to Conspiracy laws and the repression of animal liberation activism") (pp. 244 249) Anja Eickelberg, "Coalitioning" for quality education in Brazil: diversity as virtue? (pp. 250 254) Key documents Peter Waterman, Needed: a global labour charter movement (pp. 255 262) Michael Neocosmos, Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today (pp. 263 334) Reviews Theresa O'Keefe, review of Incite! Women of color against violence, The revolution will not be funded: beyond the nonprofit industrial complex. (pp. 335 339) iii
Maite Tapia, review of Heidi Swarts, Organizing urban America: secular and faith-based progressive movements. (pp. 340 343) David Eugster, Demontage der Subversion: zur politischen Wirkung ästhetischer Techniken im 20. Jahrhundert. Rezension zu: Anna Schober, Ironie, Montage und Verfremdung. Ästhetischen Taktiken und die politische Gestalt der Demokratie (pp. 344 350) ("The deconstruction of subversion: the political effect of aesthetic techniques in the 20th century. Review of Anna Schober, Irony, montage and alienation: aesthetic tactics and the political shape of democracy.") Roger Yates, review of GL Francione, Animals as persons: essays on the abolition of animal exploitation. (pp. 351 353) General material Call for papers issue three: Crises, social movements and revolutionary transformations (pp. 354 357) List of editorial contacts [no PDF] List of journal participants [no PDF] Call for new participants [no PDF] Call for IT allies [no PDF] iv
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