No. 19 (2016): Perspectives on Social Movements. Voices from the South

Coordinated by Philipp Altmann, Deniz Günce Demirhisar and Jacob Mwathi Mati
Edited by (for Émulations) Maximilien Cogels.

The study of social movements in the social sciences took a new start after the waves of revolutionary disputes and the Occupy movements of our decade. The intuition at the beginning of this thematic issue is that our understanding of these movements is limited by the Eurocentric character of the categories and concepts forged to analyze them. It is also undeniable that many important social movements today are developing first in the South before becoming global. The coordinators of this issue of Emulations favor an approach to social movements from the South and by researchers from the South. This change of perspective is necessary to understand, with new intellectual tools, the dynamics of these movements that shape our common future. This thematic issue brings together empirical studies of the movements observed in Latin America, Africa and North America, hoping that these contributions could open a new theoretical horizon to understand our societies in motion.

This issue of Émulations has been supported by the Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements) of the International Sociological Association and its platform "Open Movements: for a global and public sociology of social movements"