Activism

Edward Webster, 1942-2024: South Africa’s Pioneering Industrial Sociologist
Career
March 12, 2024

Edward Webster, 1942-2024: South Africa’s Pioneering Industrial Sociologist

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Restoring Regina Twala, Southern Africa’s Erased Activist and Anthropologist
Bookshelf
January 20, 2023

Restoring Regina Twala, Southern Africa’s Erased Activist and Anthropologist

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Political Activism is Not Just for Youngsters
Research
September 25, 2017

Political Activism is Not Just for Youngsters

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March for Science: Should Scientists Engage in Activism?
Public Engagement
February 7, 2017

March for Science: Should Scientists Engage in Activism?

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Indian Sociologist Accused of Murder in Case She Says is Retaliation for Her Work

Indian Sociologist Accused of Murder in Case She Says is Retaliation for Her Work

UPDATE: Two Indian social scientists are among 10 people charged with murder in an Indian state wracked by an ongoing insurgency by Maoist rebels that the academics were actively studying. Almost 200 Indian sociologists are protesting the arrest.

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Book Review: Betsy Leondar-Wright: Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups

Book Review: Betsy Leondar-Wright: Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups

Cold weather getting you down? Why not curl up by the fire with a good book? Betsy Leondar-Wright : Missing Class: How […]

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L’affaire Salaita: Can Activism Go a Tweet Too Far?

L’affaire Salaita: Can Activism Go a Tweet Too Far?

Social media allows scholars to discuss and debate current affairs like never before, but on a very public stage. Brent E. Sasley and Mira Sucharov examine and assess one academic’s tweets on the Israel-Gaza crisis and the questions raised over his style and approach.

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Surviving as Activist Academics in an Authoritarian State

Surviving as Activist Academics in an Authoritarian State

For more than a decade a group of intellectual freedom fighters survived at Egyptian universities only to see their movement falter just when political freedoms expanded

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‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

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Obama Vows to Act on Climate Change

Obama Vows to Act on Climate Change

As reported in The New York Times, President Barack Obama devoted special attention to climate-change goals in his second Inaugural Address on […]

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The Invisible Children in the Seminar Room: Kony 2012 and digital activism.

The Invisible Children in the Seminar Room: Kony 2012 and digital activism.

Since its earliest days there has been a great deal of writing about online activism and the possibility of forming active publics via the Internet.

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