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Interface:
a journal for and about social movements interfacejournal.net


Volume four, issue two
To conclude, in my understanding, an
(November
integral approach is one that;
2012)
For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity


Issue editors: Peter Waterman, Alice Mattoni, Elizabeth Humphrys,
- respects the relative autonomy
Laurence Cox, Ana Margarida Esteves
of the different fields, and looks for field specific laws,
www.interfacejournal.net/current/


Volume four, issue two of Interface,
- affirms that new levels of
a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is now out, on the special theme “For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity”
complexity cause the emergence of new properties and thus rejects
Interface is open-access (free), global and multilingual. Our overall aim is to “learn from each other’s struggles”: to develop a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, but also between different social movements, intellectual traditions
reductionisms that try to explain the
and national or regional contexts. Like all issues of Interface, this issue is free and open-access.
highly complex from
the less complex,


This issue of Interface includes 529 pages and 28 pieces in English and Spanish, by authors writing from / about Australia,
- tries to formulate level-specific laws that relate the objective a
Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Egypt,
nd subjective aspects, refusing
Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland,
to see any one aspect as a mere epiphenomena of the other,
Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia,
the UK and the US among other countries.


Articles in this issue include:
- is subjective-objective in that
it always relates the
understanding of the objective, through the
prism of a recognised individual perspective in general,


    Peter
- and attempts to correlate explanations
    Waterman,  Alice Mattoni, Elizabeth Humphrys, Laurence Cox, Ana
emanating from
    Margarida Esteves,
the various fields, in order to arrive at
    For the global emancipation of labour:
an integrative understanding; in this sense it
    new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity
is a hermeneutic discipline focusing on creating
 
meaning.
For the
global emancipation of labour
 
    Wolfgang
    Schaumberg,
    Development in China and Germany: another
    world is possible? (action note)
    Dae-Oup Chang,
    The neoliberal rise of East Asia and
    social movements of labour: four moments and a challenge
    Joe Sutcliffe,
    Labour movements in the global South: a
    prominent role in struggles against neo-liberal globalisation?
    (action
    note)
    Stefania Barca,
    On working-class environmentalism: a
    historical and transnational overview
    Nora Räthzel and
    Peter Uzzell,
    Mending the breach between labour and
    nature: environmental engagements of trade unions and the North-South
    divide
    Melanie Kryst,
    Coalitions of labor unions and NGOs: the
    room for maneuver of the German Clean Clothes Campaign
    Jean Faniel,
    Trade unions and the unemployed: towards
    a dialectical approach
    Martine D’Amours,
    Guy Bellemare and Louise Briand,
    Grasping new forms of unionism: the case
    of childcare services in Quebec
    Annalisa Murgia
    and Giulia Selmi,
    “Inspire and conspire”: Italian
    precarious workers between self-organization and self-advocacy
    Alberto Arribas
    Lozano,
    Sobre la precariedad y sus fugas. La
    experiencia de las Oficinas de Derechos Sociales
    Franco Barchiesi,
    Liberation of, through, or from work?
    Postcolonial Africa and the problem with “job creation” in the global
    crisis
    Elise Thorburn,
    A common assembly: multitude, assemblies,
    and a new politics of the common
    Godfrey Moase,
    A new species of shark: towards direct
    unionism (action note)
    Nicolás Somma,
    The Chilean student movement of 2011 –
    2012: challenging the marketization of education (event analysis)
    Tristan
    Partridge,
    Organizing process, organizing life:
    collective responses to precarity in Ecuador (action note)
    Peter
    Waterman,
    An emancipatory global labour studies is
    necessary! On rethinking the global labour movement in the hour of
    furnaces
 
 
General
articles:
 
    Jackie Smith,
    Connecting social movements and political
    moments: bringing movement building tools from global justice to Occupy
    Wall
    Street activism
    Kenneth Good,
    Democratisation from Poland to Portugal,
    1970s – 1990s and in Tunisia and Egypt since 2010
    Mayssoun
    Sukarieh,
    From terrorists to revolutionaries: the
    emergence of “youth” in the Arab world and the discourse of
    globalization
    Corey Wrenn,
    The abolitionist approach: critical
    comparisons and challenges within the animal rights movement
    Ángel Calle
    Collado,
    Marta Soler Montiel, Isabel Vara Sánchez, David Gallar Hernández,
    La
    desafección al
    sistema agroalimentario: ciudadanía y redes sociales
    Tomás Mac Sheoin,
    Power imbalances and claiming credit in
    coalition campaigns: Greenpeace and Bhopal
 
This
issue’s reviews include
the following titles:
 
    Ben Selwyn, Workers, state and development in Brazil:
    powers of labour, chains of value. Reviewed by Ana Margarida
    Esteves.
    Jai Sen (ed.), Interrogating empires and Imagining
    alternatives. Reviewed by Guy
    Lancaster.
    Janet
    Conway,  Edges of global justice:
    the World Social Forum and its “others”.
    Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu.
    Alan Bourke, Tia
    Dafnos and Kip Markus (eds.), Lumpencity:
    discourses of marginality / marginalizing discourses. Reviewed by
    Chris
    Richardson.
    Craig Calhoun, The roots of radicalism: tradition, the
    public sphere and early nineteenth century social movements.
    Reviewed by
    Mandisi Majavu.
 
A call
for
papers for volume 5
issue 2 of Interface is now open, for pieces on any aspect of
social movement research and practice that fit within our mission
statement
(www.interfacejournal.net/who-we-are/mission-statement/).
We
can
review and publish articles in
Afrikaans,
Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German,
Hungarian,
Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,
Spanish,
Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. The website has the full CFP and details on
how to
submit articles for this issue at
 
www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Interface-4-2-CFP-vol-5-no-2.pdf
 
 
 
The next issue of Interface (May 2013) will be under the
title “Struggles, strategies and analysis of anticolonial and
postcolonial social movements”.

Revision as of 13:11, 28 March 2013


To conclude, in my understanding, an integral approach is one that;

- respects the relative autonomy of the different fields, and looks for field specific laws,

- affirms that new levels of complexity cause the emergence of new properties and thus rejects reductionisms that try to explain the highly complex from the less complex,

- tries to formulate level-specific laws that relate the objective a nd subjective aspects, refusing to see any one aspect as a mere epiphenomena of the other,

- is subjective-objective in that it always relates the understanding of the objective, through the prism of a recognised individual perspective in general,

- and attempts to correlate explanations emanating from the various fields, in order to arrive at an integrative understanding; in this sense it is a hermeneutic discipline focusing on creating meaning.