(blog) Activists and Scholars debate Social Movements and Social Change

With the purpose of enhancing dialogue between scholars and activists, the Mobilizing Ideas blog has published interdisciplinary perspectives on social movements, social change and public sphere, featuring original essayas responding to a wide variety of concerning issues.

Violent state repression is currently the debated issue, and the idea is to provoke reflection on some of these questions in light of contemporaray cases: How does repression affect future protest? How do states decide to engage in violent repression? What responses are available to protestors? And, does the type of protestor or the cause matter for who is repressed?

Founded in August 2011, Mobilizing Ideas is hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Movements at Notre Dame. Check it out here.