Pre-prints

In the lead up to each new issue, we are very excited to now be publishing advance pre-prints:

Burcu Binbuga, The struggle for “life”: anti-mining mobilisation in Turkey (peer-reviewed article)

Gino Canella, Contested terrain and the distribution of social movements (peer-reviewed article)

David Purucker, Reviving the mass organization for social movements? The meaning of membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (peer-reviewed article)

Taura Taylor, Daughters of the comb: exploring consciousness-raising, anchored consciousness, and micro-resistance in the natural hair movement (peer-reviewed article)

Anna Willow, A quiet revolution — transcending and transforming political engagement in the transition movement for community climate resilience (peer-reviewed article)


Looking for editors!

Interface: a journal for and about social movements is now in its 15th year and working on its 28th issue. We publish the work of reflective social movement activists and engaged movement researchers from all around the world, across different movements, intellectual traditions and academic disciplines and in multiple languages. Our shared goal is “learning from each other’s struggles”: listening to what movements learn through practice and what researchers learn from and about movements and amplifying these discussions. Interface is always free, made possible by the voluntary commitment of activist scholars and theoretically-minded organisers around the world.

Notably, Interface is dedicated to both resisting the commercialization of knowledge production and providing a radical alternative to the unethical publishing models and exploitative open access options of corporate journals. We are now looking for researchers, activists and activist researchers to join us and take the journal further.

In particular, we are looking for people involved in or researching movements in Europe (east, central and west); Asia (south, south-east and eastern); Middle East/Central Asia/North Africa; Africa; and transnationally-organised movements. These are voluntary roles that rely on a political commitment to nurturing social movement knowledge in testing times, working with other people in these regions to review and edit submissions of different kinds (stories of struggle, peer-reviewed research articles, practice and research notes, event analyses, interviews and roundtable discussions, key documents and more) and to develop our networks of writers and readers, both in movements and universities .

If you’re interested, please send an email to heikes1@googlemail.com, levi.gahman@liv.ac.uk and laurence.cox@mu.ie saying what region you’re interested in and why you’d like to be part of the Interface project and spokescouncil. Please include one or two samples of something you’ve written (activist or academic) and a CV or narrative CV if you have one, or something else (bio, personal webpage etc.) that can help us get a sense of you. We’ll look at all the responses we get by January 15th, reply to everyone and set up conversations to take this further. If you’ve read this far, thanks for your interest!

Heike, Levi, Laurence and the Interface spokescouncil


Latest full issue (14/1)

Interface 14-1 cover: demonstration in Argentina

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FULL ISSUE (4.2 MB pdf)


Our latest special issue


Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond

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