Outputs (13)

Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK (2021)
Journal Article

The material effects of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) have generated a resurgence of activist initiatives in the field of housing central to which is ACORN that has developed into a federated organisation contesting housing practices and polic... Read More about Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK.

Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice? (2018)
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This article is focussed on working with parents and carers to develop nonviolent resistance (NVR) as a means of addressing controlling and self-destructive behaviours exhibited by their children. This practice is discussed as an alternative form of... Read More about Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice?.

Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn (2017)
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The crisis of neoliberalism and the associated austerity politics generated a global wave of protests which in turn has produced a renewed interest amongst activists and academics for political parties as means of expressing social movements and addr... Read More about Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn.

Engaging sociologists: An A-Level tutoring and mentoring outreach project with 2nd year undergraduate students (2017)
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This article is a collaborative piece of work co-written by two university academic staff (AM and RW), an FE college lecturer (PS), and two undergraduate students (GF and DH) who recently participated in the tutor/mentor scheme. The university academ... Read More about Engaging sociologists: An A-Level tutoring and mentoring outreach project with 2nd year undergraduate students.

Solidaires, unitaires et démocratiques: social movement unionism and beyond? (2017)
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A contribution to a Special Issue on trade union renewal that focuses on this topic in relation to the radical French trade union Solidaires, Unitaires et Démocratiques (SUD).

Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context (2013)
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Union density in France has fallen to exceptionally low levels, yet unions are able to mobilise millions of supporters against government austerity measures. Some authors therefore argue that the union revitalisation literature overemphasises density... Read More about Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context.

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? (2012)
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This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as surviv... Read More about Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?.

Un metodo aperto di coordinamento nella mobilitazione social transnazionale: la governance multilivello e la lotta per an 'Europa sociale' (2009)
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Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis (2007)
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In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponent... Read More about Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis.

Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power or counter-power? (2005)
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The variable geometry of European trade unionism: The case of the European trade union confederation (2004)
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State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France (2004)
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May 2003 saw millions of French workers take to the streets over the issue of pensions, in mobilisations that the financial press presented as a peculiarly French summer ritual (Graham, 2003). Yet a look behind the news shows that the fight over pens... Read More about State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France.

The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making? (2002)
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This paper explores the logical and historical determinants of European integration and reflects on the potential and dangers this presents for labour movement renewal. Through the principle of ‘subsidiarity’ a regulatory gap has been established bet... Read More about The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making?.