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Interface 1/2: civil society vs social movements

By Interface: a journal for and about social movements

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OVERVIEW

Volume one, issue two of Interface, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, takes the special theme of "Civil society vs social movements". This issue, edited by Ana Margarida Esteves, Sara Motta and Laurence Cox, contains 20 pieces in English, German, Italian and Portuguese by authors from Angola, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, the UK and the US.

Articles include a substantial editorial overview of the field; an interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo organiser S’bu Zikode; articles on NGOs and peasant organisations, community action in Dublin, the NGOisation of Italian grassroots movements after 1977, struggles within the Brazilian state, civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, feminist media and Wikipedia; action notes on Thai NGOs, Angolan civil society, the repression of animal rights activism in Europe and Brazilian alliances around education; documents on a global labour charter and on militancy in Africa; and book reviews on movement funding, progressive movements in the US, democratic aesthetics and animal rights.