Interface: a journal for and about social movements has moved to a new website in November 2010, after two years and four issues (and two more years of discussion and planning before that!) Over this time we’ve brought together people researching and theorising movements to contribute to the production of knowledge that can help us learn from each other’s struggles: across languages, continents and cultures, across movements and issues, across the academic / activist divide, and across political and intellectual traditions.
Interface: the first two years
We’ve brought out issues on movement knowledge, on the relationship between civil society and social movements, on crisis and revolutionary transformations, and on movements and alternative media. New issues are in process on repression and social movements and on feminism and women’s movements. Alongside these themes, special sections have focussed on debating David Harvey and on international labour communication, with a forthcoming special section on feminist strategies for change. Each issue also includes many pieces on topics beyond these special themes.
So far, we’ve published activist interviews, testimonies, editorials, articles, action notes, research notes, event analyses, key documents, debates, book reviews and review essays in six languages, by authors located in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the USA and Venezuela.
A world still to win
We are still working on many fronts – developing the project in different regions of the world, expanding the range of languages used, extending the collective production of the journal, finding appropriate ways of linking the journal to movement needs and processes, ensuring the quality of what we publish and securing intellectual and academic recognition. We have done a lot in the past four years, but there is a lot to do.
This new website is designed to be part of this process, keeping our orientation as an open-access (free) space for dialogue and involving a wider community of movement practitioners and activist scholars as authors, referees for articles, book reviewers, issue editors, translators, website editors, and other supporters. Participants with particular skills / interests are always welcome!
We hope you enjoy the new site, and that the material here is helpful to you in reflection on your own struggles, developing your activist practice, researching social movements constructively, debate within organisations and dialogue between movements. There is a world still to win.
This post is also available in: German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Bosnian, Croatian, Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian, Turkish