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VOL 11 ISSUE 1 a Journal A journal for and about social movements VOL 11 ISSUE 1 www.interfacejournal.net Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 11 (1): i – iii (July 2019) Interface volume 11 issue 1 Open issue Interface: a journal for and about social movements Volume 11 issue 1 (July 2019) ISSN 2009 – 2431 Table of contents (pp. i – iii) Editorial Open issue Laurence Cox (pp. 1 – 2) Call for papers Call for papers volume 12 issue 1 Open issue (p. 3) General pieces Laurence Cox, Remembering Colin Barker (personal note, pp. 4 – 13) Majken Jul Sørensen, Dynamics of interaction: how Israeli authorities succeeded in disrupting and containing the 2011 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza (peer-reviewed article, pp. 14 – 36) Ricardo Kaufer, Transnational solidarity: the Kurdish movement and German radical leftists and anarchists (peer-reviewed article, pp. 37 – 61) Emma Craddock, What is the point of anti-austerity activism? Exploring the motivating and sustaining emotional forces of political participation (peer-reviewed article, pp. 62 – 88) i Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 11 (1): i – iii (July 2019) Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Ernesto Castañeda, Activists’ motivations and typologies: core activists in Ciudad Juárez (peer-reviewed article, pp. 89 – 122) Martin Pötz, Utopian imagination in activism: making the case for social dreaming in change from the grassroots (article, pp. 123 – 146) Jared Sacks, Rethinking surplus-value: recentring struggle at the sphere of reproduction (peer-reviewed article, pp. 147 – 177) Miguel A. Martínez, The autonomy of struggles and the self-management of squats: legacies of intertwined movements (peer-reviewed article, pp. 178 – 199) Chris Hardnack, Gramsci and Goffman, together at last: towards a counter-hegemonic framing approach to movement research (peer-reviewed article, pp. 200 – 215) Reviews [single PDF] (pp. 216 – 255) Todd Miller, 2017, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. Review author: Beth Geglia. Review essay: Posthumanities, Environmental Activism, and Anthropocentric Terminology Nicole Seymour. 2018. Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age; David Farrier. 2019. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction. Review essay author: Andrew Kettler. Jaume Franquesa. 2018. Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and The Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain. Review author: Alexander Dunlap. John Agbonifo, 2019, Environment and Conflict: The Place and Logic of Collective Action in the Niger Delta. Review author: Samuel Udogbo. Review Essay: Neoliberalism, Labour governments, and working-class power- resources: a tale of the tape Jason Schulman. 2015. Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response: The Politics of the End of Labourism. Review essay author: Brett Heino. ii Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 11 (1): i – iii (July 2019) General material List of editorial contacts [no PDF] List of journal participants [no PDF] Call for new participants [no PDF] Cover art Clashes between police and community protestors during the historic Civic Strike to Live with Dignity in Buenaventura, Colombia during May 2017. The strike lasted for 22 days, paralysing the city and with it the country’s most important port. The strike’s demands centred around improving living conditions in the city through basic public services and infrastructure, and increasing popular participation in decisions over the city’s territory and environment. Photo by Patrick Kane, cover by Sutapa Chattopadhyay. About Interface Interface: a journal for and about social movements is a peer-reviewed journal of practitioner research produced by movement participants and engaged academics. Interface is globally organised in a series of different regional collectives, and is produced as a multilingual journal. Peer-reviewed articles have been subject to double-blind review by one researcher and one movement practitioner. The views expressed in any contributions to Interface: a journal for and about social movements are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily represent those of Interface, the editors, the editorial collective, or the organizations to which the authors are affiliated. Interface is committed to the free exchange of ideas in the best tradition of intellectual and activist inquiry. The Interface website is hosted by the Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth. iii Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 11 (1): pp. 1 – 2 (July 2019) Open issue Laurence Cox Welcome to the twentieth issue of Interface: a journal for and about social movements. As always, Interface seeks to share learning between different social movement struggles and movements in different places and to develop dialogue between activist and academic understandings and between different political and intellectual traditions. This issue has 14 pieces, covering movements in Australia, Catalunya, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Palestine, SANES (the Self- Administration of North and East Syria), South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US. The issue starts with my personal note appreciating Colin Barker, the socialist activist and Marxist theorist of social movements who died earlier this year. Colin’s insistence on parity between activist and academic thinking was a key inspiration behind Interface, which was originally planned by enthusiastic participants at the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference that Colin co-convened. Two pieces on conflict and transnational solidarity follow. Majken Jul Sørensen explores the Israeli authorities’ successful disruption and containment of the 2011 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, offering a framework of responses to non-violent campaigns and discussing how activists can engage with these. Ricardo Kaufer’s article looks at German left and anarchist solidarity with the Kurdish movement around the Turkish invasion of Afrin, showing how and why movements in Rojava matter for movements in Germany. These are followed by three pieces on the motivations for social movement participation. Emma Craddock looks at how UK activists experience their resistance to austerity and argues that emotions and normative ideals of care and collectivism are fundamental to sustaining activism in hard times. Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Ernesto Castañeda ask what makes people become and remain active in the context of the high levels of violent repression experienced in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, identifying an ideal type of core activist motivated by social justice and committed to a long-term agenda of social justice. Martin Pötz’ article explores the potential of utopian imagination for radical activism and offers tools for taking it further. Two pieces focus particularly on dimensions of autonomist theory. Jared Sacks presents an argument for rethinking how surplus value is produced through reproductive work and explores the political implications for different kinds of social struggle. Miguel Martínez explores the autonomist tradition as expressed in Italian, German and Spanish squatting, with particular reference to the social, feminist and anti-capitalist dimensions of these political practices. 1 Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 11 (1): pp. 1 – 2 (July 2019) Chris Hardnack’s article offers a synthesis of the framing perspective in social movement studies and Gramscian analysis to develop a counter-hegemonic framing approach for the critical understanding of social movement discourses. The reviews section begins with Beth Geglia’s review of Todd Miller’s Storming the Wall, about the globalisation and militarisation of US borders in relation to climate change and migration. Andrew Kettler’s review essay covers two books from the Posthumanities series: Nicole Seymour’s Bad Environmentalism, about the need for a more reflexive and effective environmental communication, and David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics, which explores the temporalities of writing on ecology. Alexander Dunlap reviews Jaume Franquesa’s Power Struggles, about the contested politics of wind energy in Catalunya. Samuel Udogbo reviews John Agbonifo’s Environment and Conflict, about the Ogoni struggle with Shell and the Nigerian state. Lastly, we have Brett Heino’s review essay on Jason Schulman’s Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response, about union-party relations in New Zealand, Britain and Australia. A call for papers for future issues of Interface follows: we publish pieces by activist thinkers as well as academic researchers (and many people who are both), and in many different formats. We are also looking for a new editor to join the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) group: an activist and / or academic involved in / researching movements in one or more countries in the region. Our regional groups ensure that decisions about what to publish are made by people from, active in or researching the region rather than on the basis of what fits narratives in the “core”. Editors are co-responsible for the journal as a whole, encourage activists and researchers to write for us, handle peer review and work with authors on other articles. If you’re interested, please contact Anna Szolucha at anna.szolucha AT northumbria.ac.uk. 2 Interface: a journal for and about social movements Call for papers Volume 11 (1): p. 3 (July 2019) Vol 12 (1): open issue Call for papers volume 12 issue 1 (May – June 2020) Open
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