CfP: Direct Democracy Practices at the Local Level

Many studies focus on the impact of direct democracy in politics. More and more countries institutionalized tools of direct democracy in order to give stronger legitimacy to political decisions. At the same time, many governments resist the institutionalization of such procedures as if they contradicted the principles of representative government. At the local level, the situation seems to be less dramatized.

CfP: Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond

Call for papers volume 13 issue 1 (May-June 2021)

Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond

Elisabet Rasch and Heike Schaumberg

The May-June 2021 issue of the open-access, online, copy left academic/activist journal Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements (http://www.interfacejournal.net/) will focus on themes relevant to understanding and registering the popular responses and uprisings to racism.