...Chris Chen This essay tracks the instability of race as a political signifier in the California student movement, with a particular focus on the racial critiques of the politics of direct action and the escalation of hate crimes directed at communities of color over the course of the 2009–2010...

...Peter Rachleff While the labor uprising in Madison, Wisconsin, in the winter and spring of 2011, was precipitated by a proposal from the Republican governor and senators to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees, the movement itself transcended the ideologies, structures...

...Stavros Stavrides What has been called the squares movement is characterized by practices of commoning that reinvent public space as commons. People in the recent square occupations were not only demanding justice and direct democracy but were also creating ad hoc new forms of solidarity...

... occurrence. Thus was born an extraordinary experiment in democratic political participation. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Marco Palma No Dal Molin: The Antibase Movement in Vicenza In the United States, Vicenza is known primarily for its illustrious native son, Andrea...

...Seungsook Moon Since World War II, US military bases have become a global phenomenon and generated complex responses from their “host” societies. For these past six decades, South Korea has functioned as one of the major hubs of the global network of US military bases, yet organized local movements...

... and its policy of embracing globalization created the conditions for the defeat of China’s traditional urban working class. Coinciding with this moment has been the gradual emergence of a new movement of labor headed by migrant workers who have taken advantage of structural flaws in China’s development...

...Ugo Mattei This essay introduces the Italian commons social movement—a diverse coalition of scholars, jurists, politicians, and activists—central to the success of the 2011 water referendum. This essay attempts to provide the context for the struggles to protect commons goods in Italy, as well...

..., starting with water services and other local utilities, which would have been obliged to open to private shareholders. The Italian people, on the contrary, answered by coming together to defend the commons, voting en masse in June 2011 at the referendum called by the social movements against...

...Maria Chehonadskih In Russia, it appears that the media and the protesters represent the generalized view about the anti-Putin movement as a group resisting an oppressive regime. It’s difficult to say what came first—the ideological constriction of the official and liberal media opposing...

...Ashley Dawson As the severity of the unfolding global climate crisis has become increasingly apparent over the last decade, a movement for climate justice has emerged to challenge unsustainable environmental policies pursued in the United States and around the world. The U.S. wing of this movement...

...Werner Bonefeld; John Holloway © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway Commune, Movement, Negation: Notes from Tomorrow...

...Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Mobility in Chains: Freedom of Movement in the Early Black Atlantic...

...Nicholas Brown 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Nicholas Brown The Eidaesthetic Itinerary: Notes on the Geopolitical Movement of the Literary Absolute Whoever...

... capitalism. Cédric Parizot Viscous Spatialities: The Spaces of the Israeli Permit Regime of Access and Movement There is an extensive literature on the spatial e ects of the movement restrictions imposed on Palestinians...

...Ahmed Veriava This essay sets out a reflection on the 2015/2016 FMF revolt at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and develops in relation to two intertwined arguments. Firstly, I focus in on the wide-ranging transformation catalyzed by the FMF movement. In this respect I show that while the FMF...

...Kelly Gillespie; Leigh-Ann Naidoo This essay reads the South African student movement’s insistence on “decolonizing” historically white universities not as any simple identity politicking or refusalism, but, as a politics of antiassimilation into a society stuck in a presiding racial capitalism...

...Charles Heller; Lorenzo Pezzani A G A I N S T the D A Y Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani Contentious Crossings: Struggles and Alliances for Freedom of Movement across the Mediterranean Sea We are drawn to borders, not because they are signs or elements of the impossible but because...

...Sandrine Garcia; Eleanor Kaufman; Toril Moi Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Sandrine Garcia Project for a Symbolic Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Women s Movement in France In the following essay, Sandrine Garcia de­ fines herself as a woman working within the held...

...Andrew Dobelstein Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Effects of the Reform Movement on Relief Administration in North Carolina: The Contributions of Alexander Worth McAlister Andrew Dobelstein The spirit of municipal and social reform which characterized the opening years...