Temporarily completed working groups

Islam and politics

Indonesian Political Islam
2 April 2013, by HADIZ Vedi R.

This article explores the genesis of Indonesian political Islam and its interactions with the (...)
Critical Connections- Islamic Politics and Political Economy in Indonesia and Malaysia
2 April 2013, by HADIZ Vedi R., KHOO Boo Teik

This article explores Islamic politics in two Muslim- majority countries in Southeast Asia, (...)
Muslim Democrats in the Making?
2 April 2013, by SOMER Murat

This paper is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the relationship between (...)
Religion, Social Movement, and Democratization:
25 March 2013, by LIU Yu- Cheng, Taiwan Democracy Quaterly, 劉育成, 台灣民主季刊

In the late 2010, a young man’s self-immolation in the suburbs of Tunis, the capital of (...)

The future of the WSF’s International Council
12 February 2013, by International Council of the World Social Forum (WSF IC), MESTRUM Francine, VARGAS Gina

Presentation to the IC of some considerations, results from contributions to the (...)
World Social Forum: space or movement? Thinking about the WSF International Council future in new perspectives
12 February 2013, by Comissão Brasileira Justiça e Paz (CBJP), WHITAKER Chico

More than ten years after the first World Social Forum, in the context of the emergence of « (...)

External Pressure and Local Mobilization: Transnational Activism and The Emergence of the Chinese Labor Movement
4 January 2012, by FRIEDMAN Eli, Mobilization: An International Journal

This article elucidates connections between two strategies of transnational social move- (...)
iSlave Behind the iPhone Foxconn Workers in Central China
4 January 2012, by Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM)

In May 2011, Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) released a report, (...)
A Political Economic Analysis of the Strike in Honda and the auto parts industry in China
4 January 2012, by CHAN Chris King-Chi, ITUC/GUF Hong Kong Liaison Office (IHLO)

The strike that broke out in Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co Ltd in Foshan city of Guangdong (...)
Civil and not-so-civil forms of protest in West Bengal
4 January 2012, by BO NIELSEN Kenneth, Civil Society in International Development

Civil society has over the last more than two decades become one of those ‘Hurrah!’ words – (...)
Antinomies of Empowerment: Observations on Civil Society, Politics and Urban Governance in India
4 January 2012, by Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), HARRISS John

Since the 1990s, and coinciding with the onset of liberalisation, a « new politics » aimed at (...)

The Revolution In Egypt: Rise Of The Social Movement
10 January 2012, by ZOHAR Eran

The current revolution in Egypt is led mainly by social movements. To understand the failure (...)
The contradictions of the arab spring
10 January 2012, by WALLERSTEIN Immanuel

Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the arab spring is the result of two simultaneous but (...)
From « common goods » to the « common good of humanity »
3 January 2012, by HOUTART François, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels

This text, prepared by Francois Houtart, was presented by Francine Mestrum to the conference (...)
The Fight for ‘Real Democracy’ at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street
3 January 2012, by Foreign Affairs, HARDT Michael, NEGRI Toni

Occupy Wall Street’s anger is mostly directed at the ruling economic class. But the movement (...)
On Playing By The Rules
14 December 2011, by GRAEBER David, 葛列伯大衛

David Graeber is one of the initiators of Occupy Wall Street - in this article, he discusses (...)

Democracy in revolution: the Mediterranean moment
8 March 2012

If accounting begins from the self-immolation of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouaziz, (...)
The Arab revolutions in perspective
6 March 2012

This interview with Gilbert Achcar, who is currently working on a book on the Arab (...)
The Revolution In Egypt: Rise Of The Social Movement
10 January 2012, by ZOHAR Eran

The current revolution in Egypt is led mainly by social movements. To understand the failure (...)
The contradictions of the arab spring
10 January 2012, by WALLERSTEIN Immanuel

Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the arab spring is the result of two simultaneous but (...)

« L’art palestinien est une manière de se questionner politiquement » - Amélie David
De l’état du monde et du déni des gens qui nous gouvernent - Pierre Mouterde
Les pays de l’UE devront restaurer les zones maritimes et (...) - Alexis Legault
L’affaire Ilaria Salis bouleverse l’Italie - Claude Vaillancourt

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